The McAfee Most Dangerous CelebritiesTM studyfound movie stars and models top the “most dangerous” list this year while politicians like Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are among the safest.

Cybercriminals often use the names of popular celebrities to lure people to sites that are actually laden with malicious software. Anyone looking for the latest videos or pictures could end up with a malware-ridden computer instead of just trendy content.

“This year, the search results for celebrities are safer than they’ve been in previous years, but there are still dangers when searching online,” said Dave Marcus, security researcher for McAfee Labs. “Through consumer education and tools, such as McAfee® SiteAdvisor® site ratings, consumers are getting smarter about searching online, yet cybercriminals are getting sneakier in their techniques. Now they’re hiding malicious content in ‘tiny’ places like shortened URLs that can spread virally in social networking sites and Twitter, instead of on websites and downloads.”

Cameron Diaz Searches Yield Ten Percent Chance of Landing on a Malicious Site

McAfee research found that searching for the latest Cameron Diaz pictures and downloads yields a ten percent chance of landing on a website that’s tested positive for online threats, such as spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses and other malware.

Fans searching for “Cameron Diaz” or “Cameron Diaz and downloads,” “Cameron Diaz and screen savers,” “Cameron Diaz and wallpaper,” “Cameron Diaz and photos” and “Cameron Diaz and videos” are at risk of running into online threats designed to steal personal information. Clicking on these risky sites and downloading files like photos, videos or screensavers exposes surfers or consumers to the risk of downloading the viruses and malware.

The study uses SiteAdvisor site ratings, which indicates which sites are risky to search for celebrity names on the Web and calculate an overall risk percentage. The top 10 celebrities from this year’s study with the highest percentages of risk are:

“Cybercriminals follow the same hot topics as consumers, and create traps based on the latest trends,” continued Marcus. “Whether you’re surfing the Web from your computer or your phone or clicking on links in Twitter about your favorite celeb, you should surf safely, and make sure you’re using the latest security software.”

Beware of Victoria’s Secret Beauties

Three of Victoria’s Secret top models are among the top ten this year. Searching for downloads of sexy Gisele Bündchen (#4), Adriana Lima (#6), and Heidi Klum (#9) can result in landing on a high percentage of risky sites.

Dangerous Athletes

Tennis stars Maria Sharapova and Andy Roddick came in at (#13) and (#14) respectively. Most of the risky sites were uncovered when searching for screensavers featuring these sexy athletes. David Beckham ranked (#29) and Tiger Woods ranked (#33) this year.

“Bieber Fever” is Not Dangerous

Teen sensation Justin Bieber ranked towards the bottom of the list at #46. This young star recently broke a YouTube record with more views than Lady Gaga (#37). Other young Hollywood stars like Miley Cyrus (#44) and Zac Efron (#40) were also relatively safe to search.

Obama and Palin at the Bottom of the Pack

President Barack Obama (#49) and Sarah Palin (#50) are not among the most risky personalities to search; they ranked in the bottom of this year’s results, moving even lower on the list compared to last year.

Keep Safe with McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus software

McAfee security experts urge consumers to surf safely by using McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus software ($19.99). It displays red, yellow and green icons on the search results page that indicates the safety-level of websites. It also checks the safety of links in e-mail and instant messaging applications, blocks risky websites, adds anti-phishing protection, and helps users more safely surf, shop and bank online. SiteAdvisor Plus software is already included with McAfee Total Protection™ software, a comprehensive security suite that protects against antivirus, anti-spyware, and identity and firewall protection.

Consumers can also safely surf the Web by using the Yahoo! SearchScan toolbar, which only shows ratings for “red” sites that are have potentially dangerous downloads including viruses, spyware and other harmful software.

Web surfers should visit the McAfee Security Advice Center and Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mcafee for information on the latest threats, and tips on surfing safely.

About McAfee® SiteAdvisor® technology

McAfee SiteAdvisor technology protects users from malicious websites and browser exploits, and notifies users whether a site has been scanned by McAfee for potential vulnerabilities. SiteAdvisor technology tests and rates nearly every trafficked site on the Internet and uses red, yellow and green icons to indicate the website’s risk level.

SiteAdvisor site ratings are created by using patented advanced technology to conduct automated website tests. The SiteAdvisor software can be downloaded quickly and for free at www.mcafee.com/siteadvisor. SiteAdvisor software works with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

About McAfee, Inc.

McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. Backed by unrivaled Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. McAfee secures your digital world. http://www.mcafee.com

Note: McAfee, the McAfee logo, SiteAdvisor and McAfee Total Protection are registered trademarks or trademarks of McAfee, Inc., or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. ©2010 McAfee, Inc. All rights reserved. The product plans, specifications and descriptions herein are provided for information only, subject to change without notice, and without warranty of any kind, express or implied.

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Top 10 organizations targeted by phishing attacks

The percentage of phishing emails in the first quarter of 2010 averaged 0.57% of the total volume of mail traffic.

Spammers have learnt to exploit the new Internet platforms such as blogs and social networks for their own ends. The saturation of the spam market has led to a halt in the growth of the volume of unwanted emails in mail traffic, having stabilized at around 85.2% in the first quarter of 2010. This figure coincides with the final result for 2009.

The first quarter saw no major changes to the list of countries considered to be key sources of spam: the US was first (16%) followed by India (7%) and then Russia (6%).

The migration of spammers from China’s .cn domain to the Russian .ru zone is another noticeable event that occurred in the first quarter of 2010. This was caused by a tightening of the domain registration rules in China. Russian domains are attractive to the fraudsters because of their more relaxed legal requirements.

The full text of the report for Q1 is available at: www.securelist.com/en.

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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 or use easily-guessable passwords to protect your personal data, then you are not only endangering yourself, but also the people around you, most notably the friends that you communicate with on social networking sites. Having gained access to your account, an attacker can impersonate you and send your friends messages that appear to originate from you.

In order to save your valuable data, your money and your network of trust, you should not only follow some basic rules yourself but also raise your friends’ awareness too!

The full version of the article ‘The Dangers of Social Networking’ can be found at Securelist.com/en. A summary of the article can be found here.

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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 servers shut down or cleaned, on average, three times per day. The number dropped steadily from 107 on February 25, to as low as 71 on March 8. Then, in just 48 hours, the number grew from 71 to 142, precisely doubling its total number, which all Koobface-infected computers use to get remote commands and updates.

The Koobface command and control infrastructure can be observed when looking at the evolution of the geographical location of IP addresses used to communicate with the infected computers. The usage of C&C servers is increasing mostly in the United Stated, growing from 48 percent to 52 percent. Currently, more than half of the Koobface C&C servers are hosted in the United States, far exceeding any other country.

“These latest happenings give us some indications of how the Koobface gang takes care of its infrastructure”, says Stefan Tanase, Senior Regional Researcher, Kaspersky Lab EEMEA. “Based on this, we can conclude that the cybercriminals are constantly monitoring their infrastructure status. They don’t want the number of C&C servers to drop too much, as that would mean losing their control over the botnet. When the number of active C&C servers drops to a critical level, they seem to be ready to implement dozens of new ones. The total number of Koobface C&C servers is constantly fluctuating, going from over a hundred to under a hundred and back again in a matter of weeks. It seems that when 100 C&C servers are online, the Koobface gang is relaxed. They also prefer to have their C&C servers distributed across the globe and with different ISPs, in order to make the take-down process harder. However, most of the Koobface C&C servers remain in the United States.”

Kaspersky Lab would like to provide a few tips for users:

• Be cautious when opening links in suspicious messages, even if the sender is one of your trusted Facebook friends.
• Use an up-to-date, modern browser: Firefox 3.x, Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome, Opera 10 etc.
• Divulge as little personal information as possible. Do not give out your home address, telephone number or other private details.
• Keep your antivirus software updated to prevent new versions of malware from attacking your computer.

Kaspersky Lab users running any of the Company’s current anti-malware products are fully protected from all known variants of Koobface. Kaspersky Lab’s global team of analysts are keeping a close eye on all threats coming from the social networking space, monitoring the malicious activity and constantly updating the protection customers receive.

About Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab is the largest antivirus company in Europe. It delivers some of the world’s most immediate protection against IT security threats, including viruses, spyware, crimeware, hackers, phishing, and spam. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users. Kaspersky Lab products provide superior detection rates and one of the industry’s fastest outbreak response times for home users, SMBs, large enterprises and the mobile computing environment. Kaspersky® technology is also used worldwide inside the products and services of the industry’s leading IT security solution providers. Learn more at www.kaspersky.co.uk. For the latest on antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and other IT security issues and trends, visit www.viruslist.com.

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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 Lab research team has observed the Koobface live C&C servers shut down or cleaned, on average, three times per day. The number dropped steadily from 107 on 25 February, to as low as 71 on 08 March. Then, in just 48 hours, the number grew from 71 to 142, precisely doubling its total number, which all Koobface-infected computers use to get remote commands and updates.

The Koobface command and control infrastructure can be observed when looking at the evolution of the geographical location of IP addresses used to communicate with the infected computers. The usage of C&C servers is increasing mostly in the United Stated, growing from 48 percent to 52 percent. Currently, more than half of the Koobface C&C servers are hosted in the United States, far exceeding any other country.

“These latest happenings give us some indications of how the Koobface gang takes care of its infrastructure”, says Stefan Tanase, Senior Regional Researcher, Kaspersky Lab EEMEA. “Based on this, we can conclude that the cybercriminals are constantly monitoring their infrastructure status. They don’t want the number of C&C servers to drop too much, as that would mean losing their control over the botnet. When the number of active C&C servers drops to a critical level, they seem to be ready to implement dozens of new ones. The total number of Koobface C&C servers is constantly fluctuating, going from over a hundred to under a hundred and back again in a matter of weeks. It seems that when 100 C&C servers are online, the Koobface gang is relaxed. They also prefer to have their C&C servers distributed across the globe and with different ISPs, in order to make the take-down process harder. However, most of the Koobface C&C servers remain in the United States.”

Kaspersky Lab would like to provide a few tips for users:

• Be cautious when opening links in suspicious messages, even if the sender is one of your trusted Facebook friends.
• Use an up-to-date, modern browser: Firefox 3.x, Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome, Opera 10 etc.
• Divulge as little personal information as possible. Do not give out your home address, telephone number or other private details.
• Keep your antivirus software updated to prevent new versions of malware from attacking your computer.

Kaspersky Lab users running any of the Company’s current anti-malware products are fully protected from all known variants of Koobface. Kaspersky Lab’s global team of analysts are keeping a close eye on all threats coming from the social networking space, monitoring the malicious activity and constantly updating the protection customers receive.

About Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab is the largest antivirus company in Europe. It delivers some of the world’s most immediate protection against IT security threats, including viruses, spyware, crimeware, hackers, phishing, and spam. The Company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users. Kaspersky Lab products provide superior detection rates and one of the industry’s fastest outbreak response times for home users, SMBs, large enterprises and the mobile computing environment. Kaspersky® technology is also used worldwide inside the products and services of the industry’s leading IT security solution providers. Learn more at www.kaspersky.com. For the latest on antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and other IT security issues and trends, visit www.viruslist.com.

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This recommendation is made in a new paper authored by David Emm, Senior Regional Researcher, UK, Global Research & Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab. The article considers the influence the human factor has on information security.

Cybercriminals are known to employ methods that exploit vulnerabilities in the human psyche, to spread their programs and collect data. For example they are increasingly targeting social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter and others, due to the ever-increasing number of people that use them.

Emm explains that humans are typically the weakest link in any security system and that educating the user in security best practice needs to be at the a part of any effective IT strategy. No corporate security policy can be considered effective if it fails to address the human factor. In addition to securing digital resources, IT professionals need to find efficient methods for ‘patching’ human resources too.

“A security strategy is far more likely to be effective if staff understand and support it. Furthermore, it is important not to see security information and training as just an IT issue. Rather it should be seen within an overall HR context,” explains Emm. “Employees need to be told, in simple, straightforward language, the nature of the threat. They need to understand what protection measures the organisation has deployed, and why, and how these may affect them in carrying out their duties. It also ensures that staff – who are increasingly working from home these days – are not exposing business resources to unnecessary risks.”

The full version of the article entitled ‘Patching human vulnerabilities’ is available at www.viruslist.com/en. This material can be reproduced provided that the author, company name and original source are cited. Reproduction of this material in re-written form requires the express consent of the Kaspersky Lab PR department.

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The author analyzes the methods by which cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in the human psyche to spread their programs and collect personal data. According to the article, it comes as no surprise that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter and others, due to the ever-increasing number of people that use them.

The article also clearly shows that humans are typically the weakest link in any security system and that educating the user in computer security techniques should be a core part of any effective IT strategy. No corporate security policy can be considered as effective if it fails to address the human factor. In addition to securing digital resources, IT professionals need to find efficient methods for ‘patching’ human resources too.

“A security strategy is far more likely to be effective if staff understand and support it. It’s also important not to see security information and training as just an IT issue. Rather it should be seen within an overall HR context. Employees need to be told, in simple, straightforward language, the nature of the threat. They need to understand what protection measures the organisation has deployed, and why, and how these may affect them in carrying out their duties. It also ensures that staff – who are increasingly working from home these days – are not exposing business resources to unnecessary risks”, – states David.

The full version of the article is available at www.viruslist.com/en.

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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 mass media.

Alexander Gostev, Director of the Global Research and Analysis Team, opened the press tour with a review of the most significant incidents in the IT underworld in 2009. The major trend of the year was a slowdown in the growth of newly emerging threats. According to the company’s figures, the number of new malicious programs detected in 2009 was virtually the same as in 2008 – about 15 million. Other peculiarities of the cyberthreat landscape in 2009 included: increasingly sophisticated malware, a growth in the number of global epidemics, infected web resources, a variety of scams, and the development of malware for alternative platforms and devices. In his conclusion, Alexander offered a malware evolution forecast for 2010.

The evolution of threats targeting social networking sites was a major trend in the cyberthreat landscape in 2009, and was the topic for the discussion moderated by Stefan Tanase, Kaspersky Lab’s Senior Security Researcher, EEMEA, and Ryan Naraine, Senior Security Evangelist, Kaspersky Lab Americas and Editor-in-Chief of Threatpost. In his presentation – “Why Does Disaster Always Strike in Your City? Evolution of Social Networking Threats” – Stefan Tanase gave an expert evaluation of the contemporary threats to social networks. He stated that at the current time we are seeing a rise in these threats to a new level involving automated targeted attacks against users.

In the presentation “How much do you cost? The black market price of your digital data”, Dmitry Bestuzhev, Kaspersky Lab’s Senior Regional Researcher in Latin America, described the types of personal information which may be of interest to cybercriminals and what determines the price of stolen information on the black market.

The internal aspects of the antivirus industry’s development were covered in a presentation by Magnus Kalkuhl, Kaspersky Lab’s Senior Virus Analyst in Germany. The industry has made a quantum leap in technology in recent years. As well as basic signature-based detection, vendors now provide a wide range of proactive defense technologies. However, information security products are still widely tested using static tests that evaluate their signature-based detection capabilities. “What can a quest for better test results lead to?” and “How to improve testing methodologies?” were just two of the topics proposed by Magnus Kalkuhl and Ryan Naraine for discussion during the workshop “Are signatures the new mp3? How to fight the misuse of intellectual property”.

A total of 36 journalists from 24 countries participated in Kaspersky Lab’s international press tour. They each had an opportunity to interview Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and Co-founder of Kaspersky Lab as well as several of the company’s other leading experts.

The journalists also had a day of sightseeing and relaxation which included a visit to the Kremlin and ice karting.

The material from the press tour is available here.

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“Over the past decade, we’ve seen a tremendous improvement in the ability to successfully monitor, uncover, and stop cybercrime,” said Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee Labs. “We’re now facing emerging threats from the explosive growth of social networking sites, the exploitation of popular applications and more advanced techniques used by cybercriminals, but we’re confident that 2010 will be a successful year for the cybersecurity community.”

McAfee Labs Threat Predictions for 2010:

Social Networks Will Be Platform of Choice for Emerging ThreatsFacebook, Twitter, and third-party applications on these sites are rapidly changing the criminal toolkit, giving cybercriminals new technologies to work with and hot spots of activity that can be exploited. Users will become more vulnerable to attacks that blindly distribute rogue apps across their networks, and cybercriminals will take advantage of friends trusting friends to get users to click on links they might otherwise treat cautiously. The use of abbreviated URLs on sites like Twitter make it even easier for cybercriminals to mask and direct users to malicious Web sites. McAfee Labs predicts that cybercriminals will increasingly use these tactics across the most popular social networking sites in 2010.

Web Evolution Will Give Cybercriminals New Opportunities to Write MalwareThe release of Google Chrome OS and the technological advancements of HTML 5 will continue to shift user activity from desktop to online applications, creating yet another opportunity for malware writers to prey on users. HTML 5’s anticipated cross-platform support also provides an additional motivation for attackers, enabling them to reach users of many mainstream browsers.

Banking Trojans, Email Attachments Delivering Malware Will Rise in Volume, SophisticationMcAfee Labs warns that banking Trojans, having demonstrated new tactics in 2009, will become even more sophisticated in 2010 and easily get around current protections used by banks. New techniques include a Trojan’s ability to silently interrupt a legitimate transaction to make an unauthorized withdrawal and simultaneously check the user’s transaction limits to stay below them and avoid alerting the bank. Email attachments, a longstanding delivery method for malware, will continue to rise in volume and increasingly target corporations, journalists, and individual users.

Cybercriminals Continue to Target Adobe Reader, FlashIn 2009, McAfee Labs saw an increase in attacks targeting client software. Due to the growing popularity of Adobe applications, McAfee Labs expects that cybercriminals will continue to target Adobe products, primarily Acrobat Reader and Flash, two of the most widely deployed applications in the world. McAfee Labs expects Adobe product exploitation will likely surpass that of Microsoft Office applications in 2010.

Botnet Infrastructure Shifts from Centralized Model to Peer-to-Peer ControlBotnets, the versatile infrastructure that launches nearly every type of cyberattack from spamming to identity theft, will continue to use a seemingly infinite supply of stolen computing power and bandwidth around the globe. Following a number of successful botnet takedowns, including the McColo ISP, botnet controllers must adjust to the increasing pressure cybersecurity professionals are placing on them. In 2010, McAfee Labs expects to see a significant adoption of peer-to-peer control, a distributed and resilient botnet infrastructure, rather than the centralized hosting model that we see today. For cybercriminals, the benefits will finally outweigh the costs of the peer-to-peer model, due to the security community’s increasingly aggressive attempts to shut down and deny access to botnets.

Cybercrime: A Good Year for Law EnforcementNext year marks a decade in the fight that international law enforcement agencies have undertaken against cybercrime. McAfee Labs has seen significant progress in the universal effort to identify, track, and combat cybercrime by governments worldwide. McAfee believes that in 2010 we’ll see many more successes in the pursuit of cybercriminals.

For a full copy of the 2010 McAfee Labs Threat Predictions, please visit: http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/white_papers/7985rpt_labs_threat_predict_1209_v2.pdf

About McAfee, Inc.

McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is committed to relentlessly tackling the world’s toughest security challenges. The company delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse, and shop the web more securely. Backed by an award-winning research team, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector, and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com.

NOTE: McAfee is a registered trademark or trademark of McAfee, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other marks and brands may be claimed as the property of others. © 2009 McAfee, Inc. All rights reserved.

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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 sites, users have to enter their credentials. A security-conscious user will create several usernames and passwords and try to remember the answers to a variety of secret questions that will help him recover login details if he loses or forgets them. Many programs that can store your credentials for you, including web browsers, typically keep them in a non-protected format, exposing the data to malicious attacks.

Kaspersky Password Manager has been designed by Kaspersky Lab to address this problem and a number of related issues. The solution ensures the security of passwords used to access websites and Windows applications. Kaspersky Password Manager stores passwords, usernames and other confidential data in a dedicated database that is accessed via a master password. Kaspersky Password Manager can automatically recognize and fill in text fields in lengthy online forms and authorization dialog windows in password-protected websites and programs. The product helps the user identify themselves to a website or a program with just one mouse click. All these functions and capabilities make the new product from Kaspersky Lab an important addition to the protection provided by Kaspersky Anti-Virus/Kaspersky Internet Security 2010.

The standard authentication method in Kaspersky Password Manager requires the user to enter a master password to gain access to the protected database. This means the user does not have to remember or keep notes of passwords to all the programs and online services they use, including those used rarely. All the user has to remember is their master password. A secret key is generated based on the master password. The database and the master password are encrypted using strong algorithms contained in the encryption providers built into Windows operating systems. The only way to access the password database is by entering the master password.

An indicator in Kaspersky Password Manager clearly shows how strong the chosen password is. The user can use this to select a suitably strong database password. To safeguard against keyloggers, the user can use a virtual keyboard to enter the master password.

Other authentication methods include using a Bluetooth or USB device, such as a regular mobile phone, as a unique key to verify the user’s identity. This provides reliable protection and means the user doesn’t have to go the trouble of manually entering the master password.

Kaspersky Password Manager seamlessly integrates with other applications making it easy for the user to access the program. The product can either be accessed through the Taskbar or by pressing a button in the Windows GUI. Passwords stored in unprotected format in web browsers can be automatically imported to the solution’s protected storage area.

Kaspersky Password Manager is capable of generating strong passwords up to 99 characters long. This feature helps the user create long, complex and unique passwords.

The new solution from Kaspersky Lab can run from removable USB media on any PC without prior installation. The product also provides protection from phishing attacks, warning the user that it may not be safe to fill in online forms on suspicious websites.

Kaspersky Password Manager boosts the security level of all Kaspersky Anti-Virus/ Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 users. With Kaspersky Password Manager, the user enjoys a new standard of interaction with applications such as web browsers and IM services. First-time buyers of the company’s products qualify for a generous discount: if you buy Kaspersky Password Manager at the same time as Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, you will receive a discount of almost 40%.

“In light of the ever increasing risk of identity theft, we want to provide our users with an increased level of security for their logins and passwords,” says Dmitry Ustyuzhanin, Product Marketing Director at Kaspersky Lab. “We are well aware that most users tend to only have a couple of passwords for a large number of resources, which is a particularly unsafe practice. To help improve this situation, we are giving them a powerful, user-friendly tool that reliably protects their digital ID.”

Kaspersky Password Manager can be downloaded from Kaspersky Lab’s website at

http://www.kaspersky.com/downloads.

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