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Digital advertising brings money to companies and relevant ads to you and me — and attracts fraud. How does it all work?

The emergence of robocars could mean the end of personal vehicles as we know them. Here’s how things may go down.

Fantom ransomware displays a fake Windows Update screen while encrypting your files.

Hackers have stolen 68 million account credentials from Dropbox dating back to 2012. Here’s what you should do.

How Kaspersky Lab helped the Russian police catch the cybercriminals behind the Lurk banking Trojan and Angler exploit kit.

Facebook is going to use your WhatsApp data to tune its advertising, but for now you can opt out of this deal.

One Instagram post with a picture of a ticket can cost you a whole lot of time and money and ruin your day. This is how you can avoid it

Another piece of ransomware bites the dust: Kaspersky Lab now offers a free decryption tool for the WildFire cryptor.

Lynch law, loss of basic privacy, disgusting marketing, digital identity theft — how else can facial recognition be misused?

If you own an Apple device, spend a few minutes setting up your System Location Services. You’ll protect your privacy and lengthen battery life.

The changeover from magnetic stripe cards to chip cards cost millions of dollars but promised greater security. At Black Hat 2016, researchers told us that the new cards are nonetheless insecure.

Researchers discovered a hack that affects 100 million Volkswagen cars. And the equipment needed costs just $40.

Today, it seems everything can be hacked. Even your vibrator. This is the tale of developers of very intimate goods who do not value the privacy of their clients.

DotA 2 forum breach leaks 2 million accounts, probably has consequences

Up close and personal, one Kaspersky Labs editor’s experience with the system failure at Delta Air Lines.

Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek learned to hack a car’s steering wheel, brakes, and acceleration. They presented their finding at Black Hat USA 2016.

Short-term rental sites are great for travelers and homeowners. The Wi-fi? Maybe not so much.

How concerned should we be with industrial security?

So you found a USB stick outside. Should you use it?

Kaspersky Lab has patented technology that can disarm Adobe Flash exploits using special detection technology.

In the second part of our “Ask the expert” session, Jornt van der Wiel answers questions about encryption: how it works, what it is for, and more.