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Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of its spam report for the second quarter of 2010. According to the report, one of the most significant events in the last quarter was an unprecedentedly large mass mailing that used HTML-based threats in the form of emails disguised as legitimate notifications from social networks.
An email was distributed that
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky PURE has received the Product of the Year Award after successful testing conducted by experts from the respected Danish Internet portal Hardware-Test.dk.
Following the tests the portal’s specialists were amazed at the level of protection offered by Kaspersky PURE. “I’m excited by Kaspersky
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According to June’s spam report issued by Kaspersky Lab, PayPal is the unsurpassed leader when it comes to being targeted: in June, the number of attacks on this e-pay system rose by 20 percentage points compared to May’s figure. Facebook and HSBC swapped positions again, to become third and fourth place respectively, while the popular
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Kaspersky Lab presents an article entitled Mass Defacements: The Tools and Tricks by David Jacoby, a Senior Security Researcher with the company’s Global Research & Analysis Team. During his research David identified over a hundred web servers that had been infected by ‘defacers’, including web servers belonging to some high-profile companies. These infections resulted in
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Kaspersky Lab has published an article entitled “Black DDoS” which provides an analysis of the Black Energy 2 malicious bot.
The Black Energy bot has never stopped evolving. Kaspersky Lab currently detects over 4,000 variants of the first version of this malicious program; the second version has been on security researchers’ radars for two years.
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Security for Mail Server has been named a winner in the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Awards. The product was chosen as the winner of the Email Anti-Virus category on WindowSecurity.com.
In order to find out which product network security administrators preferred in a particular
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, has successfully patented a groundbreaking piece of technology in the USA that allows the potential scale of malware epidemics to be accurately predicted in order to prevent them from spreading.
Today’s malware has the capacity to spread like wildfire, with millions of computers infected in an
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According to Kaspersky Lab’s spam report for May 2010, the USA maintained its positions as the prime distributor of spam, despite a decrease of 2.4% compared to March’s figure: the quantity of spam originating from this country increased by 8.5%, having returned to its usual level of 20.7%. Second and third places respectively went to
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According to Kaspersky Lab’s spam report for May 2010, the USA maintained its positions as the prime distributor of spam, despite a decrease of 2.4% compared to March’s figure: the quantity of spam originating from this country increased by 8.5%, having returned to its usual level of 20.7%. Second and third places respectively went to
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 and 8.0 for Windows Servers received a VB100 award after successful testing on the Microsoft Windows 2008 Server R2 platform.
The test was carried out by the respected British publication Virus Bulletin. In all, thirty three antivirus solutions were tested, including
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