Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, has released its latest report on the evolution of spam for the first quarter of 2010 compiled by company experts Darya Gudkova, Elena Bondarenko and Maria Namestnikova. As is stated in the report, the number of phishing attacks on social networking sites has increased. Facebook
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Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of the analytical article ‘The Dangers of Social Networking’, by Georg Wicherski, a malware analyst with the Company. The article analyzes a wide range of IT threats, from the less dangerous types such as run-of-the-mill spam, to the more technically sophisticated drive-by infections.
If you click on untrusted links
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Kaspersky Lab warns of a surge in Koobface, the highly prolific worm infecting social networking sites. The malicious program targets sites such as Facebook and Twitter and uses compromised legitimate websites as proxies for its main command and control server.
During the past two weeks, the Kaspersky Lab research team has observed the Koobface live C&C
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, warns of a surge in Koobface, the highly prolific worm infecting social networking sites. The malicious program targets sites such as Facebook and Twitter and uses compromised legitimate websites as proxies for its main command and control server.
During the past 2 weeks, the Kaspersky
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of Internet threat management solutions that protect against all forms of malicious software including viruses, spyware, hackers and spam, is recommending that human vulnerabilities need to be patched, to prevent them from being the weakest link in an organisations IT security chain.
This recommendation is made in a new paper authored
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the publication of an analytical article by David Emm, Senior Regional Researcher, UK, Global Research & Analysis Team, titled ‘Patching human vulnerabilities’. The article discusses the human factor and how it influences the problem of information security.
The author analyzes the methods by which
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, held the international press tour ‘Cyberthreat Landscape 2009: Outcomes, Trends and Forecasts’ in Moscow from 28-31 January.
Kaspersky Lab’s leading specialists supervising the company’s operations in various parts of the world gave presentations on the most important information security issues to representatives of the international IT
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., December 29, 2009 – McAfee Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today unveiled its 2010 Threat Predictions report. McAfee Labs believes cybercriminals will target social networking sites and third-party applications, use
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading manufacturer of secure content management solutions, announces the release of Kaspersky Password Manager, a robust password storage solution.
Every day an active user will encounter a large number of online services and programs which require authorization. In order to access email, instant messaging services, online banking and shopping accounts or social networking
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations Release 2 have received the prestigious VB100 award following testing conducted on a Windows 7 platform.
A total of 43 antivirus products, including solutions from the leading vendors, participated in comparative testing conducted by
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