security

How many research centers do you need to fight for a safer cyber world? We used to have three labs based in Moscow, Beijing, and Seattle. Now, we’re excited to announce the opening of a fourth lab — our new European Research Center based in London.

It was recently discovered that certain Hospira drug infusion pumps contain dangerous and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities.

A legendary Soviet spy, Richard Sorge, is famous for conveying the exact date of the German invasion into the Soviet Union, and for letting the command know Japan had no plans of attacking the USSR in the Far East.

Five lessons from the story of the Enigma cryptographic machine which are still relevant.

This post isn’t about smearing the good, evolving system that is Apple’s Mac OS X. The goal was to bring perception and reality together: just like the other operating systems, Mac OS X has its fair share of bugs, and while the historically smaller Mac user base has resulted in less cyber criminal targeting, it doesn’t make Mac OS X impervious. Macs’ user base has been growing steadily over the last few years, and criminal interest is following the same pattern.

During WW2 modern cryptography principles were often coupled with ‘amateur’ ciphering methods. Curiously, the latter ones often proved to be equally reliable

We’ve created an infographic that shows how the Kaspersky Lab flagship antivirus software has improved over the last 10 years.

New research demonstrates that it is possible to hack and hijack devices used to perform remote surgery

Yet another APT of the ‘Dukes family’ is hitting high-profile targets, including the US government office.

The story of how Israeli UAVs defend the country on the ground, in the sky, and in the information domain.

The annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, California of Internet-of-things insecurity and how no amount of money can fix computer security

Recent report by US GAO was treated by medias as “Modern aircrafts can be hacked and commandeered through onboard Wi-Fi”. Is it really that bad?

The global workforce is increasingly going mobile: 37% currently, up to 50% by 2020. There are more actively used mobile devices in any more or less developed country than there are adult citizens, so clearly “mobility” is something related to us all.

Everybody knows about flying drones, but there are also swimming and diving drones that patrol ports and ships, demine shores and so on. Let’s take a closer look at maritime robots.

Big data helps to catch child abusers, drug dealers, and terrorists, and allegedly it also helped to locate Bin Laden.

The cybersecurity has become the everyone’s business, and it raises the demand for continuous update of information for everybody, both high-level security professionals and common corporate users. And especially for the latter, since it is them criminals attack most of the time.

Recently Interpol, Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab revealed and the shut down of a huge botnet which zombified about 770,000 PCs worldwide. Check this story out and then check your PC

An annoying story of ‘free’ WiFi hotspots by St. Petersburg-based Smart WiFi. Nothing is for free, though, as you end up paying with your vk.com credentials

The word “IoT” (Internet of Things) has been a buzz word for several years now. It has become the era when more home electronics and cars are connected to the

There are several ways to avoid phishing attacks on your Facebook account. The common theme in each is to be highly suspicious of any online request for your personal information

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