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We all know to be aware of pickpockets. Even if it did not include tips on watching your pockets when outdoors, life itself provides opportunities to learn the simple rules.

Do you get enough sleep at night? Honestly, I don’t and neither do a lot of my friends.  Whether it’s down to today’s hectic lifestyle or something more serious such

Blackhat, directed by Michael Mann (Heat, The Last of the Mohicans) is a digital whodunit about a pair of cyberattacks and the duo of unlikely bedfellows — a colonel on

“British Prime Minister David Cameron to ban encrypted messengers” — headlines like this one are all over the news at the moment, and with good reason. Opinions vary from “Let’s protect

The first ever publicly known Mac OS X firmware bootkit emerged out of the 31st Chaos Computer Club conference in Hamburg, Germany last month. Security researcher Trammel Hudson developed the

CES 2015 was a superb event in terms of new stuff per square foot, which has been referred to numerous times by tech website reporters. As for me, a person

The times when people used just a desktop computer for their work and leisure are long gone.  In the last few years, there has seen an explosion in phones, tablets

Last year was an eventful one for the IT-security field. There were a lot of incidents, starting with global vulnerabilities to showdowns with local cybercriminals.  So, as way of looking back we

Gaming is a multi-billion pound industry with millions of players across the globe.  With this volume of users and money sloshing around, it’s inevitable that hackers and criminals come calling.

To some extent your connected PC or mobile device is a lonely warrior lost in unknown territory and this situation repeats each time you are online. In many cases your

Have you already bought all of your Christmas and New Year gifts, booked holiday tickets and hotel rooms? There’s a good chance that a good portion of those reading this

The Sony breach certainly seems to be the gift that keeps on giving this holiday season. And if the commonly accepted narrative reflects the truth, this whole nightmare scenario stems

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new variant of the infamous Zeus Trojan. It’s called Chthonic, a reference to spirits or deities from the underworld in Greek myth, and

It was an enjoyable Saturday night, when a friend of mine suddenly received an SMS notification telling him that his card had been charged 550 EUR… in Greece. “What the…?”, was

Welcome to the second post in a series of blog posts regarding the false perception of IT- security. In this post we will describe some of the issues associated with

Technology evolves in a way that no one can predict or foresee. Accepting that fact, let us recall the geeky sci-fi fantasies from as far back as the 1960s, such

Time and time again did we write about the dangers public Wi-Fi hotspots pose to users, but today we are talking about threats coming specifically from home wireless networks. Many

If December means predicting the new year in the security world, then it also means recapping the year that’s about to end. And that’s just what Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research

It’s December, and in the security industry that means one thing: predictions from experts about what trends will emerge in the next year. As always, some stuff is new and

The automotive industry is notoriously conservative. It is quite understandable, given the inherently ‘hazardous’ nature of cars: vehicles need to be clear of clutter in order to give the driver

This is the first blog post in a series of posts where I will try to document some of the false perceptions about IT security — and believe me, there