Quizzes and surveys bring a big chunk of revenue cyber-crooks make on the account of unwary computer users. For about one year, rogue Facebook™ apps have helped them direct large amounts of traffic to survey websites, but they have also started to exploit instant messaging service users. Today we bring under the scope a spam
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces the release of special edition of Kaspersky Internet Security in partnership with Scuderia Ferrari. The product is officially launched end of March 2011 at the start of Formula One racing season in Melbourne (Australia). This security solution is designed for Ferrari fans
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Experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected a new variant of the now notorious malicious program GPCode. The program is classed as Ransomware, i.e. it encrypts data on an infected computer and threatens to delete it if the user refuses to pay a ransom. This time the cybercriminals behind the program have chosen a new method
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In order to fight spam successfully, we need more than just anti-spam solutions protecting users’ inboxes — we also need the proactive involvement of law enforcement agencies in catching spammers and shutting down their spambot networks. “The events of 2010 have demonstrated that intervention by the Internet crime units of law enforcement agencies around the
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, will hold the final round of the international student conference ‘IT Security for the Next Generation’ on 14–15 April, 2011. The event will take place in Garching, Germany, in the Informatics Department of the Technische Universität München. Kaspersky Lab’s initiative brings together IT
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BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative Internet security solutions, released today a detailed infographic which revealed the dynamics of the Facebook scam landscape. Based on the statistics provided by Bitdefender safego, a free Bitdefender tool designed to protect social network accounts from privacy risks, e-threats and spam, the infographic details the types of messages used
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BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative Internet security solutions, announced today the results of a new study which focused on the different aspects of social interaction on social networks. The study also examined the different levels of exposure to security risks social network face when it comes to having knowledge of e-threats targeting these online
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You may think that an infected computer is worth nothing Infographic by Computer School
The emergence of Email-Worm.Win32.Hlux was arguably the main event in January. This new mail worm spreads via emails containing malicious links that prompt users to install a fake Flash Player, purportedly to view an e-card. The link leads to a dialog window that asks if the user agrees to download a file. Regardless of the
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As many as 43 per cent of people with internet access have online ‘friends’ they have never met in real life, according to research released today by Kaspersky Lab, Europe’s largest antivirus company. The online research, undertaken by YouGov, is being released to coincide with Safer Internet Day 2011 and highlights that over half (54%)
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