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Hardware is usually considered relatively safe and clean — as opposed to software which is usually the layer suffering from bugs and malware. But this is no longer true

While it would be obvious to say that DDoS attacks are “bad for business”, the threat is often underestimated, overlooked, or neglected. Surveys show less than 40% of companies take

Major social networks have been known to either unbundle their functionality into multiple apps, or buy other apps and not integrate their functionality into the main one.

Losing a phone is always a bit of a nuisance, especially if it’s an expensive piece of hardware. With smartphones conquering the world with authority, losing a phone means also

Connection inside the aircraft is not that complex: it needs just a Wi-Fi access point, end of story. But deploying the channel on the outside is a totally different and fascinating concept

Crouching Yeti, last year’s widely publicized APT campaign, is apparently still active, although the operator might have switched infrastructure, techniques, and targets.

Tech giants Intel and IBM are seeking to hire Bitcoin experts, but their interest appears to be focussed on the service’s public ledger rather than the cryptocurrency itself

A four year old Flash patch did not properly resolve a vulnerable Flex application, and attackers can exploit the bug, which is said to affect some 30 percent of Alexa’s top 10 most popular sites in the world, which threatens the integrity of the businesses behind these sites.

Mark Zuckerberg has officially allowed dozens of popular apps to operate within the realm of his Facebook Messenger

In 2014 Kaspersky Lab products took part in many tests held by independent research labs. Our solutions achieved more first places than any competitor!

A large-scale “pharming” campaign targeting home routers took place in South America, the latest in a trend Kaspersky Lab’s experts have been monitoring for awhile. Home routers are frequently used

Fraudsters hacked Skype and tricked people from a contact list to send them about $5,000 over the course of a few days. Skype support, local banks and the police refused to do anything.

A new piece of ransomware has emerged and it’s going after a younger crowd by encrypting only those files on infected machines that relate to online game play

Windows 10 will offer users the ability to authenticate themselves with biometric identifiers rather than passwords

A cryptolocker variant is coming after online gamers, and there is more to this story than meets the eye. Looks like cybercriminals found a great way to get to the

#BionicManDiary Entry 003 – The one where I bypassed the smartphone’s password protection whereas had intended to do a completely different thing

A Trojan malware called Podec uses popular Russian social network VKontakte, and other channels, to infect Android phones. Beware: It can bypass CAPTCHA.

Kaspersky Lab created a mobile app to find a stolen or lost phone, remotely lock it, or delete sensitive data in case of device theft.

Samsung Pay is set to come out in South Korea and the U.S. this summer. The company isn’t saying much, but we tried to find out what we could about security on the platform

The world of ubiquitous connected devices is almost here, and it’s so eagerly anticipated that it becoming a reality seems inevitable. Anticipation, however, doesn’t necessarily mean that we are going

The design of the current smartwatches is defined by being aimed at geeks. It looks like it will again take Apple to perform its duties carefully iSplaining wearables to ordinary people.