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Every fifth attack, every third bank Every fifth phishing attack over the past year focused on banking and financial institutions. These results come out of a study published by Kaspersky

Congratulations to our third stage winner in Kaspersky Lab’s 7 Volcanoes contest – Patsy from Ireland! Patsy first discovered the magical land of Petra in Southern Jordan as a young boy when

It’s summer, that time of year where we go on vacation, take lots of pictures — and, of course, upload them to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And because we want

Exciting news! Olga Rumyantsev has conquered Mount Elbrus as she continues on her quest to climb the 7 tallest volcanoes in the world. This is the fourth highest volcano Olga

The ancient stratovolcano, Elbrus, is Europe’s highest peak and takes its place amongst the “Seven Summits,” a must for any self-respecting mountaineer. So naturally Olga Rumyantseva could not pass it

According to Kaspersky Labs research, 34 percent of worldwide Internet users were attacked by malicious programs in 2012. As always, the most popular entries for attackers were widely used programs

We’re continuing to watch how law enforcement agencies around the world are progressing in the fight against cybercrime. They’ve been able to keep jailing hackers, both for minor cybercrimes like

14 finalists, 10 countries, 5 regional heats: and one London Final. We are still flying high from all the excitement generated by the ideas, innovation and inspiration that underpinned the

Have you ever wondered what a hacked computer, email address, or other online account is even worth? Sure, it seems pretty obvious that there’d be some serious value in a

What should have been a fairly straightforward climb for Olga Rumyantseva turned out to be a little harder than expected. Despite the difficulties the highest volcano in Asia gave Olga,

It’s harder and harder to keep your personal information private when browsing the web, but fortunately there is an entire market of add-on utilities, known as plugins, designed to keep

Everyone who has ever seen the sunset at the foot of Damavand says they’ve never witnessed anything more beautiful. The beauty and greatness of Damavand are both expressed in numerous

Congratulations to our second stage winner in Kaspersky Lab’s 7 Volcanoes contest – Richa from India! Though Richa has traveled outside of India before, she has always dreamed of the

It can be very tempting to instantly share the most exciting moments of your vacation with relatives and maybe make your friends a little bit jealous. That’s why we usually

Almost all computer security instructions, whether it is a help page on Facebook, corporate regulations or part of the “… for dummies” series, urge us to use strong passwords at

Another day, another online service adds two-factor authentication to its list of features. This time it was Evernote, the cloud-based note-taking service that hackers managed to compromise and use as

In case you weren’t following us during May, here is a list of the most popular articles that were published on Kaspersky Daily last month. Beware of Snapchat The wildly

We recently wrote about the conspicuous lack of privacy discussion at Google’s recent I/O Conference in San Francisco. While it’s true that there wasn’t much talk of privacy at the

During the summer holidays, your kids will spend their time not only in parks and on seaside beaches, but a majority will also spend their time on the Internet. That

Everything is about the cloud these days, but as we increasingly store our personal and professional data on remote servers it is essential to know that nothing is 100 percent

Twitter has recently caught up with competitors like Facebook and Google by improving user protection with two-factor authentication. This will help us all forget about those much talked about account