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This is how a seemingly simple SIM card in your smartphone can contribute to the loss of money and personal data.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently graded a slew of mobile and Internet messaging services based on security and privacy. Here we detail the top scorers.

The newly disclosed Darkhotel APT campaign will surely draw increased scrutiny to hospitality systems’ security worldwide. Hoteliers acknowledge the existence of security problems in their software systems, and many are opting to move these systems into the cloud. Is this a viable solution?

In this episode of the Talk Security podcast, Threatpost’s Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss the Dark Hotel cyberespionage campaign and the WireLurker Apple malware.

One morning when I was in a hurry to get to work, everything went wrong in an instant: an SMS message alerted me to an $80 charge to my credit card for a purchase that I never made.

Securelist has published extensive research on BlackEnergy. Initially a DDoS crimeware, it turned into a huge collection of various tools currently used in various APT-type activities, including some “significant geopolitical operations”.

Yesterday, researchers disclosed a powerful iOS vulnerability that is responsible for the WireLurker Apple malware.

1 in 8 people don’t believe that cyberthreats are real. The threat may go away if you turn your back to it in a dream, but that won’t work in reality.

Kaspersky Lab has just announced the discovery of an alarming APT campaign codenamed “Darkhotel,” targeted mainly at business executives staying at certain hotels in Asia. Luxury hotels offer not just places to stay, but also comfort and privacy. However, their cybersecurity occasionally fails.

Kaspersky Lab revealed a cyberspy campaign, Darkhotel, which had been active for seven years in a number of luxury Asian hotels.

Let’s take a look at the security features in the new version of Mac OS X – Yosemite. Apple certainly makes a decent effort.

It’s not always easy to give general advice to Android users because the OS is so very diverse. But we have ten security tips that are relevant for almost any Android version.

Today’s software packages have become so huge and complex that stacks of patches issued one after the other are increasingly common. This has consequences for system administrators.

Car hacking is a topic that resurfaces regularly. Still, a remote takeover of a car’s system is not a reality – yet. It may become a reality without the proper approach to the security of a car’s on-board systems.

Apple malware targets iOS by infecting OS X machines and then swapping legitimate apps for malicious ones as soon as an iOS device connects via USB.

Internal and external threats may be quite different in nature, but they demand equal attention from the IT staff in order for the protection to be complete.

Kaspersky Internet Security has a feature that may help you take control over the time that you spend on gaming and on the Internet, and it is called parental control.

Using an in-room tablet in a hotel is an easy way to share your precious private data with the whole world and make it public.

Brian Donohue reflects on Kaspersky Government Cybersecurity Forum discussions about cyber-resiliency. We all know what resilience means. Technically speaking though, what does it take to be resilient on the network level?

Read highlights from our top posts in October.

Drupal warns customers that they should assume their sites are compromised unless they installed an update from mid-October within hours of the release.