Threats

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?

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

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

We need to learn from incidents, then implement much safer mechanisms to IoT systems that operated as parts of social/life infrastructures.

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

We are so used to divide the concept of IT security into two unequal subcategories, hardware- and software-centric. The hardware is usually considered relatively safe and clean — as opposed

There is new piece of ransomware out there going after the players of some 40 online games in an apparent attempt to target a somewhat younger crowd of computer users.

MWC often gladdens our heart with lots of visitors and participants who care much about security and that is quite natural taking into account that the event is held by

For a regular user like you and me it’s hard to imagine the path of online payments and the obstacles that appear on the way of one dollar — or just

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

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

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

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