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

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.

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.

Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have found that Russian-speaking Turla APT group is exploiting satellites to mask its operation ant to hide command-and-control servers.

The new trend on IFA 2015 is all about integrity and security. Meet Kaspersky Lab’s observations from the trade show.

Information security digest: the greatest iOS theft, farewell to RC4 cipher, multiple vulnerabilities in routers

Headlines raise alarm: the greatest hack in history finally reached iOS. Is that really so and who are the potential victims?

The rulebook for freethinking people: how not to get made the next time you log on Ashley Madison or buy goods in a sex shop online.

They teach a lot of things in schools, but they never tell you how to be safe in Internet. We have several simple advices on cybersecurity for you, that will help you stay away from trouble.

Infosec digest: exploit kit Neutrino in Wordpress, yet another GitHub DDoS, Wyndham responsible for breach, while Target is not.

A year ago, an infamous leak which exposed some celebrities’ nude photos sparked the discussion around password safety. What can you do protect your accounts?

“The Girl in the Spider’s Web”, the 4th book of Millenium series released today. Our security expert David Jacoby tells how he consulted the author of the book on what exactly hacking is.

In-flight security made quite a lot of headlines this summer, but this time at unusual angle: the one quite surprising for an average passenger and quite expected for an IT specialist.

One can find a number of reasons why this very bug cannot be patched right now, or this quarter, or, like, ever. Yet, the problem has to be solved.

Just think of the sticky fingers of banks, marketers and insurers that hunt for your personal data with revolting impudence and store them unsecured. So, what’s the fuss about?

Once more into a breach: 9.7 gigabytes of stolen data with users’ emails, credit card transactions and profiles leaked into the darknet.

Since there’s nothing unhackable in this world, why should chemical plants should be the exception?

In this post there are two seemingly unrelated pieces of news which nevertheless have one thing in common: not that somewhere someone is vulnerable, but that vulnerability sometimes arises from reluctance to take available security measures.

Don’t be a slowpoke, follow Dr. House’s rule: everybody lies, especially on the Internet.