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Are you committing these six online parenting sins? If so, please stop.

I wonder what will happen when there are no more infosec problems. Will our Threatpost news blog convert to a digest of kitty cats? Is this bright future feasible at

Our vocabulary continues to evolve as we see slang enter our lexicon. From Googling to memes once-thought silly words have become accepted. This evolution is also impacting the way we write and punctuate statements online.

Today’s smartphones are full-fledged computers much more powerful than the desktops you used 10 years ago. Your device is very likely to contain data the cybercriminals are after, like banking data.

We sit down with one of our interns to discuss what it is like to work within Kaspersky Lab.

Today’s weekly news digest covers the stories about various mistakes in coding, and how they can be used for different purposes, including earning money.

Despite our dismay about too much computer in our kids’ lives, it’s a process, which cannot be stopped now. Since we cannot stop it, let’s steer it in the right direction!

Our today’s weekly news digest covers three stories about the mistakes coders make when programming robots, the way other people exploit those design flaws, and then the reckoning.

Cyber-literate users possesses a variety of good habits, which protect them online and offline. What are these traits?

Facial recognition algorithms can track your movements with amazing accuracy. But if you know how they work you can trick them.

Kaspersky Lab joined hands with the Dutch police to arrest the criminals behind the CoinVault dangerous ransomware.

Russian chess player Mikhail Antipov sponsored by Kaspersky Lab has won the World Junior Championship.

A virus damaging hardware is one of the most widely believed myths in the infosec domain. And, at the same time, it’s the most non-standard one. And it’s not totally a myth, after all.

In the new installment of our explosive hit series “Infosec news” you’ll find: the breach of Bugzilla, Carbanak is coming back and Turla uses Level-God hard to track techniques to hide servers.

One of the most interesting ciphers designed to eliminate the vulnerability to symbol frequency analysis was the Vigenere cipher. Which later became the basis of unbreakable one-time pads.

By tracking your online activities, advertisers adapt their banner adverts and ad modules. If you don’t want to be tracked, enable the Private Browsing feature.

Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have found that Russian-speaking Turla APT group is exploiting satellites to mask its operation ant to hide command-and-control servers

The new trend on IFA 2015 is all about integrity and security. Meet Kaspersky Lab’s observations from the trade show.

Information security digest: the greatest iOS theft, farewell to RC4 cipher, multiple vulnerabilities in routers

Headlines raise alarm: the greatest hack in history finally reached iOS. Is that really so and who are the potential victims?