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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

The latest in a long line of whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency revelations may be among the most shocking: that the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, allegedly compromised

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

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 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

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

“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

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

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.

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

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