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We sit down with one of our interns to discuss what it is like to work within Kaspersky Lab.

While the total amount of companies reporting to experience DDOs attacks is more or less stable over recent years, in 2015 there was a slight increase in the number of businesses considering them the most damaging type of cyberincidents.

Today’s weekly news digest covers the stories about various mistakes in coding, and how they can be used for different purposes, including earning money.

Despite our dismay about too much computer in our kids’ lives, it’s a process, which cannot be stopped now. Since we cannot stop it, let’s steer it in the right direction!

When you purchase software, you automatically agreed that your device complies with systems requirements defined by the software vendor. That’s why you should always read them carefully before ever buying anything.

Your legitimate copy of Angry Birds 2 may be infected with malware that steals your private data. How could this happen?

If the idea of “hacking-back” against cybercriminals who have harmed you or your company has seized you, your executive team, or your spouse as a reasonable thing to do, read

Cyber-literate users possesses a variety of good habits, which protect them online and offline. What are these traits?

Our today’s weekly news digest covers three stories about the mistakes coders make when programming robots, the way other people exploit those design flaws, and then the reckoning.

Kaspersky Lab, together with B2B International, has conducted a new survey of IT security risks.

New variants of the “legendary” banking Trojan Carbanak are making the rounds on the Web, so far noticed in Europe and the United States.

Facial recognition algorithms can track your movements with amazing accuracy. But if you know how they work you can trick them.

Kaspersky Lab joined hands with the Dutch police to arrest the criminals behind the CoinVault dangerous ransomware.

Call it retribution, justice, or just plain revenge: few films are as satisfying as when the bad guy (or gal) gets what they deserve in the end.  But vigilante movies

Russian chess player Mikhail Antipov sponsored by Kaspersky Lab has won the World Junior Championship.

A virus damaging hardware is one of the most widely believed myths in the infosec domain. And, at the same time, it’s the most non-standard one. And it’s not totally a myth, after all.

In the new installment of our explosive hit series “Infosec news” you’ll find: the breach of Bugzilla, Carbanak is coming back and Turla uses Level-God hard to track techniques to hide servers.

Threatpost published a fairly detective-like story earlier this month about an attacker who was able to compromise a Bugzilla, steal bug-related data, and turn it into an exploit.

One of the most interesting ciphers designed to eliminate the vulnerability to symbol frequency analysis was the Vigenere cipher. Which later became the basis of unbreakable one-time pads.

Routers are again becoming a source of cyberthreats as a new batch of security vulnerabilities in UPnP were publicized earlier this month.