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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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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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Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of an article titled ‘Exploit Kits – A Different View’ co-authored by Marco Preuss, Head of the company’s Global Research & Analysis Team in Germany, and Senior Malware Analyst, Vicente Diaz. The article lifts the lid on the murky world of exploit kits, the vulnerabilities they target and how they
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 has come out on top in a self-protection test conducted by the authoritative Anti-Malware Test Lab. In a bid to mask their presence on users’ computers, today’s malicious programs regularly attempt to disrupt the installation and running
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading manufacturer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces the release of Kaspersky Mobile Security 9, an updated version of the product designed to provide smartphone users with the very latest in mobile security. The new version now supports the Android and BlackBerry platforms alongside Symbian and Windows Mobile, for even
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading manufacturer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces the release of Kaspersky Mobile Security 9, an updated version of the product designed to provide smartphone users with the latest in mobile security. The new version supports the Android and BlackBerry platforms alongside Symbian and Windows Mobile. Kaspersky Mobile Security 9
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading manufacturer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 has earned a top award in tests performed in the fourth quarter of 2010 by AV-Test.org, an authoritative German research center. Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 was the only solution to earn top marks for successfully treating infected
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces upcoming support for VMware vShield Endpoint to be delivered later this year. Kaspersky’s support of VMware vShield Endpoint will offer comprehensive protection for virtual machines from the latest malware threats without compromising speed and performance. VMware vShield Endpoint streamlines and accelerates antivirus
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, has published its annual report on the evolution of malware threats in 2010. The year 2010 was certainly the year for vulnerabilities and online attacks. The average number of new malicious programs detected in one month remained around the same as in 2009,
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