security

Brian Donohue and Chris Brook recap the month’s security headlines from its beginnings at Black Hat and DEFCON, to a bizarre PlayStation Network outage.

Beware of phishing, malware, spam and other online scams based on the extremely popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Sextortion is one way online predators can steal your sensitive data and use it to harm you.

Community Health Systems breach exposes the Social Security numbers of 4.5 million patients. Were you a victim? If so, how do you react?

The story of a researcher who wanted to see how vulnerable he actually was.

In this short video, we will explain six steps you can take to conveniently maximize the security of your PayPal account.

A recap of last week’s security news and research from the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Unpatched flaws in Android make your device vulnerable to “Invisible” infection. You better find out now in order to protect yourself.

Losing your work or personal data is a computing worst case scenario. While there is no shortage of ways you can lose your data, there are also a number of protections that can help.

Yahoo plans to implement end-to-end encryption for all of its mail users, giving normal, non-technical users the power to communicate securely and privately.

In the news this week: more APT campaigns, a look forward at the DEF CON and Black Hat Hacker conferences, and good and bad news for Facebook.

As a security vendor, we at Kaspersky Lab have to foresee possible problems stemming from essentially good things. Serious transformations in the software market bring both new advantages, but also new problems and challenges, to which we need to pay attention.

Most free apps are not actually free. They monetize on displaying ads to you ― and sometimes it is very annoying.

Any new technology can be rough around the edges. The consequences can be complex and there’s high chance for human error, especially when it comes to security.

The first summer month brought us news about the eternal confrontation of law enforcements and cybercriminals. Let’s see who was busted in June.

June was a busy month with hacks and data breaches, privacy, cryptography, and mobile security news, and an update on OpenSSL Heartbleed.

A serious elevation-of-privileges vulnerability had been discovered in Linux in late April. Bugs like this are especially problematic for businesses, and require a prompt reaction.

Having a chance to store as much as we want is a good thing, but is it bringing us more problems than advantages?

This week: the first ever Android encryptor malware, a serious Tweetdeck vulnerability arises and is fixed just as quickly, and much more.

Discussing security and the privacy strengths and weaknesses in the Apple’s soon-to-be-released iOS 8.

Enabling two-factor authentication makes it significantly harder for an attacker to compromise your online accounts, but what is it and when should you use it?