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Threatpost reporters Chris Brook and Brian Donohue revisit last week’s Security Analyst Summit, an event put on by Kaspersky Lab in Cancun, Mexico. Talks of interest include the Kaspersky Lab

On February 19th of 2015, it came out that Lenovo’s laptops had been shipped with an adware Superfish preinstalled. There are two major problems with this issue. The first one is

Do you like working in open plan office? Many would say no. Probably, it can be remedied by new ideas introduced by office space designers

Kaspersky’s GReAT team just published research on the Equation cyber-espionage group’s activity, and it revealed quite a few technical marvels. This old and powerful hacker group has produced a very complex series

A couple of weeks ago someone posted the following quote from Samsung’s Smart TV terms of service on Reddit: “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or

It’s the beginning of February and we’ve already seen three Adobe Flash zero days, an Internet wide-vulnerability in Linux and our first massive data breach of Anthem Inc., an enormous

The popular mobile messaging service WhatsApp released WhatsApp Web late last month. The service will allow users to run WhatsApp on their favorite Web browser — so long as their

Once a user looks up a laptop or a slow cooker online, advertisements from online stores will begin to appear as if from the horn of abundance. This is exactly

In our recent blog post, “Jiggling with cards: doing criminal business on ATMs“, we told you how easily you could lose your money because of the tricks carders play on

As more and more people upgrade to the latest iPhone, there’s an increasing demand for second-hand devices.  This, naturally, has led to fraudsters moving into the market as well. Thousands

“In God we trust, the rest we check” — A wise principle when discussing computer security, especially when using QR codes. The QR code has gained popularity in recent years

Have you ever wondered how a typical office would look like in a decade or so? The first things to come to your mind is likely to be some pseudo

In part one of our article, we discussed technology used by bank card ‘seekers’. Today we’ll relate another part of the story, covering how criminals carry out the most dangerous skimming

A new variant of the Onion ransomware has emerged, though you might see it referred to as CTB-locker or Citroni. Whatever you decide to call it, CTB-Locker is a Cryptolocker-like

Every year millions of people become victims of a data breach. For the majority, the results are the same: hackers sell users’ data on underground websites and companies have to rush

Not surprisingly, one researcher realized last week that he could exploit Progressive’s Snapshot driver tracking tool in order to hack into the on-board networks of certain auto-mobiles. Snapshot is a

As a student, I had a little part time job of servicing and administrating computers for small businesses.  Years have passed, but there are occasions when I have to remember

The new product of ours, Kaspersky Total Security, has just hit the shelves, and our customers have been bombarding us with questions ever since: “What are the key differences between

Gizmodo recently published a list of the most popular passwords of 2014, smugly deriding those morons who deploy poorly conceived credentials. Ironically, it may bear reminding that Gizmodo is owned