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Kaspersky Lab: Spam Levels Subside in 2010

Mar 24th, 2011 | By

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces the publication of its annual analytical spam report for 2010. The year 2010 saw the combined efforts of law enforcement agencies, vendors and other experts clock up a number of successes in the fight against spam. A large-scale campaign targeting spammers resulted
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Kaspersky Lab Ranked Among the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company Magazine

Mar 24th, 2011 | By

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that it has been ranked among the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies worldwide by U.S. business magazine Fast Company. Kaspersky Lab took 32nd place in the ranking, ahead of many global giants of IT industry. Overall, Fast Company recognizes 350-plus companies, including
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Cybercrime Outlook 2020 From Kaspersky Lab

Mar 24th, 2011 | By

Kaspersky Lab presents its forecast for the IT threat landscape for the period 2011-2020. The forecast is based on an analysis of the main changes and issues in the sphere of IT security over the past decade, as well as emerging trends in the development of personal computers, mobile phones and operating systems. According to
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Business as Usual for Spammers After Holiday Season Hiatus

Mar 24th, 2011 | By

Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of its spam report for January 2011. There was virtually no change in the average amount of spam detected in mail traffic compared with December. A low of 60.7% was recorded on 5 January with a peak of 87.7% on 23 January. It is safe to say that after a
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Kaspersky Lab Set to Present its Newest Solutions and Latest Threat Information at CeBIT 2011

Mar 24th, 2011 | By

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, has chosen Europe’s largest IT exhibition, CeBIT, as a platform to demonstrate that the company is “Always ahead with winning performance and technology”. From 1 to 5 March, 2011, the company’s IT security experts will be at the trade show bringing people up
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Number of online attacks soar in 2010

Mar 24th, 2011 | By

In 2010 there was more than 580 million web-based attacks against users’ computers — nearly eight times more than the number of online attacks recorded in 2009, according to Kaspersky Lab’s annual Threat Evolution report. This surge is related to the prevalence of exploits that allow hackers to infect website visitors’ computers without them noticing,
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Collaboration is key in 2010 as global spam levels subside

Mar 24th, 2011 | By

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces the findings of its annual analytical spam report for 2010. 2010 saw the combined efforts of law enforcement agencies, vendors and IT security experts clock up a number of successes in the fight against spam. A large-scale campaign targeting spammers resulted in
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Kaspersky Lab Obtains Ten New Patents in Russia

Mar 24th, 2011 | By

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, has been awarded Russian patents for ten innovative new data protection technologies. Russian Patent No.101217 covers a system that accelerates file scanning during emulation. Kaspersky Lab’s new technology uses a dedicated accelerator to execute part of the emulated program’s instructions on the CPU
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Eugene Kaspersky: Mobile Malware Threat is Set to Increase in 2011

Mar 24th, 2011 | By

Speaking at CeBIT, Kaspersky Lab CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky predicted increased professionalism for the mobile malware cybercrime sphere. Today mobile devices are used increasingly to access the Internet, and sensitive transactions such as online banking are carried out more and more often using smartphones, and the malware landscape will adapt accordingly. According to Kaspersky
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Malware in February: Cybercriminals Perfect Drive-By Tactics

Mar 24th, 2011 | By

Kaspersky Lab’s latest monthly report on malware activity highlights the current popularity of using drive-by attacks to infect users’ computers. These attacks are particularly dangerous because they take place without the user’s knowledge and can be initiated from legitimate websites that have been hacked by cybercriminals. Visitors to infected sites are redirected to web pages
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