Kate Kochetkova

Our kids will be astronauts, artists, or travelers — whatever they want, because the boring tasks will be performed by robots.

Good news: Our international project No More Ransom was joined by more than 30 new allies, gathered 15 new decryption tools, and was translated into 8 more languages.

Ransomware terrorizes users and companies around the world, preventing access to data and demanding more and more money for its safe return. Take this quiz and learn how to secure your digital life.

How often do victims succeed in getting back money stolen by online scammers?

Social media and ‘likes’ can hurt our relationships and everyday life. Here is how it happens.

It is surprisingly easy to hack airline reservations, obtain banking data and other private information, steal tickets, and rack up air miles.

Guess that threat!

Facebook has changed its privacy settings several times in the past few years, so we explain once again how to make your account more private.

Find out if you can avoid traps set by fraudsters for Black Friday sales.

Test: Are you a cybersecurity know-it-all?

Facebook regularly changes its security settings. Take a look: A useful new setting may have appeared since the last time you checked.

An unwitting army of connected devices caused an insane disruption of major Internet sites. IoT users need to wise up.

Why it’s important to update software — and why you can stop worrying about it.

Everything you need to know about mobile banking Trojans and how to fight them.

How criminals use fake Wi-Fi hotspots to steal data, and how you can use our solutions to protect yourself.

When Google announced Allo, we thought the search giant was finally paying attention to users’ concerns about privacy. Reality turned to be quite different.

Why questions like “What is your mother’s maiden name?” and “What did you do last summer?” don’t protect you.

We discovered a Pokémon Go Trojan in Google Play. It had already been downloaded 500,000 times.

One Instagram post with a picture of a ticket can cost you a whole lot of time and money and ruin your day. This is how you can avoid it

Lynch law, loss of basic privacy, disgusting marketing, digital identity theft — how else can facial recognition be misused?

If you own an Apple device, spend a few minutes setting up your System Location Services. You’ll protect your privacy and lengthen battery life.