Yuri Ilyin

Microsoft had to deal with a new less-than-pleasant vulnerability in Internet Explorer browser, which affected all of its versions starting with IE6 in all of its operational systems including the

Aside from protecting virtual environments without straining servers, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization offers a number of advantages to admins. For instance, there is no need to reboot or put servers into maintenance mode to deploy our solution.

Traditional ‘agent-based’ solutions should not be used in virtual environments, especially those in dynamic use. Instant-On Gaps are the most common problem here: it strains servers and creates a serious vulnerability window for a VM. Kaspersky Security for Virtualization has been designed specifically to eliminate this problem.

April 2014 was destined to be the month ‘when Windows XP’ died, but this didn’t happen. The ‘Heartbleed’ bug outshone everything else. Still, there were incidents (unrelated to Heartbleed) worth mentioning.

The virtual environment requires the same protection as physical PCs, but the approach should be different. Full blown security solutions on every virtual machine? The strain for a physical server would be too great. But here comes ‘Light-Agent’…

The first quarter of 2014 has passed, so Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have released their quarterly report on IT threat evolution for the first three months of 2014. It’s quite an

There is one somewhat positive outcome from the ongoing #heartbleed scare: the password security issue is back in focus. How big is the ‘adventure’ of changing all passwords going to be?

As reported yesterday, security researchers have found a nasty bug in OpenSSL, which allows reading the memory of systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This effectively

A very serious flaw has just been discovered in OpenSSL – an open-source and very popular cryptographic library, which has already incited a minor (for now) panic amongst security experts.

Due to the intensity of recent incidents, we have decided to release our security digests more often. From now on, it will be released every two weeks. Since March 20th

There are just few days left until Microsoft officially stops supporting its operating system Windows XP. This successful and popular operating systems has long become a burden for the company.

Almost any company that produces a product has something that is usually called ‘a milestone product’. For Kaspersky Lab this was Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0. Released back in 2006, it was

Kaspersky Lab presents its new interactive Cyberthreats Realtime Map. Living up to its name, this visual tool allows users to see what is going on in cybersecurity around the world

Apple in Disgrace In late February, researchers detected a couple of major problems with the operating systems Apple iOS and Mac OS X. The iOS version 7.06 update restored some

Mr. Vitaly Kamluk, Kaspersky Lab’s security researcher, enters the stage, goes over a certain number of slides, and then proceeds to do a live demo. He warns the audience about

Kaspersky Lab recently published a new survey called “Who’s spying on you” to describe the arising problem of cyber-espionage. In our previous article we pointed out that any company or

Whenever one hears the words ‘cyber espionage’, large-scale campaigns affecting entire national states and transnational corporations such as Aurora, Flame or Duqu come to mind. Unfortunately, cyber espionage doesn’t necessarily

The year started with Intel, AMD and their OEM partners announcing that they would soon release PCs that run both Android and Windows 8.1 at the same time. The pilot