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Right after Microsoft and Kaspersky disrupted the activity of the Kelihos/Hlux botnet, a week ago the Redmond company having managed to identify one of its masterminds, researchers found that the botnet returned with some interesting new techniques.
Kaspersky Lab Experts reveal that the method they utilized to bring... |
31 January 2012
09:14 GMT |
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It is difficult to label one antivirus solution as the best of them all. However, given a certain timeframe and the test results recorded during this time for a number of products, you can clearly conclude which alternatives did best.AV-Comparatives concluded their annual summary report for 2011 with a very clear-cut... |
12 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Medium severity vulnerabilities are found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security 2011/2012 which can allow an attacker to crash the complete software process.
Researchers from Vulnerability Laboratory found a flaw caused by an invalid pointer corruption when processing a corrupt .cfg file through th... |
22 December 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Team Elite has published a proof of concept to show a cross-site scripting (XSS) and an iframe injection flaw in Kaspersky’s Polish product store (softbuy.pl/kaspersky/store). It seems that the product purchase page contains some weaknesses which could allow a hacker to execute arbitrary code. It’s... |
18 December 2011
10:46 GMT |
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After a Russian news agency informed the world on the fact that Kaspersky is about to withdraw its membership from Business Software Alliance (BSA), Eugene Kaspersky, the man behind the renowned security solutions provider, came forward with a statement confirming the fact that his company doesn’t approve of th... |
7 December 2011
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Kaspersky, the world renowned security solutions provider, decided to break the partnership it had with Business Software Alliance (BSA) after the latter indicated its support for the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
According to TorrentFreak, BSA showed some concerns regarding SOPA, but that might only ... |
5 December 2011
08:42 GMT |
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Again we are presented with a situation that shows how even companies that should keep us protected are vulnerable to the attacks launched by cybercriminals. This time, NOD32’s website in Ukraine and Kaspersky’s Costa Rican site were defaced. Kaspersky was hacked by Algerian hackers Over-X, indoushka and... |
1 December 2011
03:26 GMT |
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The latest Kaspersky Internet Security brings in a new layout, fit for any sort of user. It features comprehensive protection on all fronts and carries a bag of tools designed for optimizing your PC’s performance.
It comes at a price of $59.95 (€45) and despite being a protection suite installation is a b... |
3 October 2011
11:44 GMT |
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Starting October 1 we’re beginning a one month long celebration for our 10 year anniversary. That’s right! We’ve been on the market for that long and plan on delivering great quality software for home users and professionals alike for a whole lot longer. To mark the special occasion we’ve pre... |
1 October 2011
06:47 GMT |
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Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Labs talks on his personal blog about the need of security in the gaming industry.The Gamescom Expo, that took place on 17-21 August at Cologne, was a great opportunity for Kaspersky Labs to make their point in regards of what needs to be done to protect the online worl... |
5 September 2011
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Antivirus giant Kaspersky Lab claims that a recent McAfee report about a five-year long cyber espionage operation dubbed Shady RAT intentionally blows the threat out of proportions.In a post on his blog, Kaspersky Lab co-founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky claims that the RAT (remote administration tool) used in the at... |
18 August 2011
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Android malware authors have began passing their creations as legit security applications, trojans posing as Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Trusteer Rapport being seen so far.Spoofing security software is common with desktop threats, particularly scareware applications that immitate antivirus programs. However, the trend i... |
14 July 2011
12:19 GMT |
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Apple’s tight grip of the iOS ecosystem can lead to security risks, according to Kaspersky Chief Technology Officer, Nikolay Grebennikov.In a discussion with Computing, Grebennikov said "Apple simply can't continue with its current closed approach, and in my opinion, to remain competitive it should be look... |
20 June 2011
05:35 GMT |
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Security researchers from CA warn of a piece of scareware designed for mobile phones which poses as a legitimate antivirus product from a reputed vendor.Scareware applications are some of the most common types of computer threats seen today. They are also among the most profitable ones for cyber criminals and help fu... |
27 April 2011
14:22 GMT |
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The Kaspersky source code that recently made its way onto public websites was leaked by a former employee of the antivirus vendor who is already serving a prison sentence received a suspended prison sentence for intellectual property theft.Yesterday, we reported about the complete source code of an older Kaspersky pr... |
29 January 2011
04:56 GMT |
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According to statistics from Kaspersky Lab, adware programs and Java-based downloaders were the most common threats encountered on the Web during December.There are three separate adware components that made it to Kaspersky's top 20 Internet malware list for last month.The most frequently encountered one was AdW... |
4 January 2011
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Exploits and other malicious scripts associated with drive-by download attacks dominated the threat landscape last month and accounted for most entries in Kaspersky Lab’s top 20 malware applications.Drive-by download attacks have multiple components. They usually start with cyber criminals exploiting a Web vuln... |
3 December 2010
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Malware pushers have managed to compromise a Kaspersky Lab website on Sunday and direct users looking to download the vendor's applications to scareware.According to various reports, including on Kaspersky's own support forums, the compromise occurred on the USA download website.When visitors attempted to d... |
19 October 2010
12:48 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab warn that My Opera is being abused by hackers, after they found a botnet script hosted on its servers."There have been several reports about malware hosted on Mozilla and Google code servers. Now we also found malware hosted on My Opera community servers," Dmit... |
24 September 2010
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Security researchers warn that multiple recent Zbot variants are using a forged digital signature in an attempt to bypass antivurs detection. Ironically the digital signature was copied from a ZeuS removal tool developed by Kaspersky Lab.Code signing has been around since Windows NT, but the practice has seen a wider... |
5 August 2010
06:21 GMT |
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This article is also available in Spanish: Antivirus de pago vs. gratuitosTaking care of your system these days seems to be a less complicated task than it used to be a few years back. Now, protection against malware begins the moment you install your operating system. Windows 7 offers some basic security throug... |
2 April 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Este artículo está también disponible en inglés: Antivirus: Free vs. Paid DetectionEl cuidado de tu sistema parece ser una tarea menos complicada de lo que solía ser hace unos años. Hoy en día la protección contra el malware comienza desde el momento en que ins... |
2 April 2010
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Kaspersky products incorrectly blocked access to legitimate websites reporting that ads from Google AdSense were infected with a Trojan horse labeled Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar. Russian-based antivirus maker Kaspersky managed to shoot itself in the foot and deliver a blow to its credibility and legitimacy as a maker of ... |
26 January 2010
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Not even a week has passed since New Year and Kaspersky has already released a discount offer for its leading products, KIS (Kaspersky Internet Security) and KAV (Kaspersky Anti-Virus). According to the company’s Twitter status, a simple coupon code added when viewing the shopping cart for one of the two produc... |
6 January 2010
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NVIDIA's Tesla GPUs have been getting quite a share of positive responses lately. Not only can they be used to create supercomputers that completely overshadow other clusters in the area of power efficiency, but they are capable of massive parallel processing tasks that make them quite suited to heavy computing ... |
15 December 2009
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A grey hat hacker has found a critical SQL injection weakness on the official Kaspersky Lab websites in Malaysia and Singapore. Exploiting the vulnerability leads to full compromise of the underlying database, which contains customer information, product keys and other sensitive data.The attack has been documented by... |
10 December 2009
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Kaspersky Lab's online presence in Portugal has been targeted by a Romanian hacker, who used SQL injection to obtain unrestricted access to the database. According to the attacker, the website contained, at the very least, product licensing information.The self-confessed grey hacker goes by the moniker of "TinKo... |
8 December 2009
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Believe it or not, but the recently introduced, free security solution from Microsoft manages to hold its own against fully-fledged, paid security suites from heavyweight players on the security market, at least when it comes down to generic detection and heuristic techniques. In fact, Microsoft Security Essentials 1... |
1 December 2009
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In order to protect Windows PCs on mixed networks more effectively, Kaspersky Lab has released Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac OS X. The new product has access to the company’s global antivirus database that includes information on more than 20 million malicious programs for several different platforms. “K... |
6 November 2009
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Even if harmless, the first virus that infects the environment of a programming language has been reported by Kaspersky. The virus scans for a Delphi platform, attaches itself to the embedded compiler and infects any Delphi program compiled from that moment on. According to Denis Nazarov from Kaspersky Labs, “... |
19 August 2009
06:11 GMT |
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If you're going to go out, at least go out with a bang. This seems to be Microsoft's motto for Windows Live OneCare, a security solution that, in the latest comparative tests performed by AV-Comparatives, managed to best almost all rival products, including offerings from Eset, BitDefender, Kaspersky, AVG, ... |
1 June 2009
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Researchers from anti-virus vendor Kaspersky warn about a new threat targeting mobile users in the form of credit stealing trojans. The malicious applications initiate unauthorized requests to transfer credit from one phone to another. Credit transferring allows one mobile subscriber to transfer funds to another numb... |
21 January 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Just as it was the case with Windows Vista, the mitigations introduced by Microsoft alone in Windows 7 are not sufficient to bulletproof the operating system on their own. While security for Windows 7 is not a new subject, as you have been able to already read materials on this subject, fact is that following the rel... |
15 January 2009
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Just ahead of the public Beta of Windows 7, Microsoft has started recommending security solutions that can be integrated with the next iteration of its Windows client even at this early stage in the platform's development. The first products designed to protect users running Windows 7 Beta come from Kaspersky an... |
5 January 2009
03:29 GMT |
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Security vendor Kaspersky Labs warns that between 2,000 and 10,000 American and Western European web pages have been hacked in a two-day interval. The cybercriminals responsible for the attack have not been identified yet, but the details of the incident are highly similar to an attack that took place last spring and... |
10 November 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Kaspersky has just published the list of the most common threats detected on its customers' computers during the month of August. Out of the 20 most popular malicious code items that were employed by attackers, 13 were trojans, which shows that these threats (which can actually trigger other problems as well) ar... |
2 September 2008
06:48 GMT |
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The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit arrested a 19-year-old man from the Netherlands, as he was trying to sell the Shadow botnet that he had created to a Brazilian. International special forces, including the F.B.I., are collaborating for the extradition of the South American, who was also arrested, to the U.S.The botnet s... |
15 August 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab released a warning for MySpace and Facebook users, regarding two new versions of a worm, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b respectively, that put the security of those who have accounts on the two web services at risk. The MySpace worm creates some catchy phrases that are sent to... |
2 August 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 8.0.0.454 Final version has just been released. It is a tool that is presented by the team of developers as an unmatched security solution for home and home office. The Kaspersky product offers protection from viruses, Trojans and worms, scans the Internet traffic, the email and insta... |
1 August 2008
08:58 GMT |
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It has come to light that this past weekend, the official Malaysian web page of the internationally renowned security software provider Kaspersky, as well as the S.E.S. online shop web page, have been successfully hacked. A Turkish cracker going by the name of "m0sted" managed to hack the previously mentioned web pag... |
21 July 2008
08:37 GMT |
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Kris Kaspersky, software engineering expert, security consultant and technical writer, will demonstrate at the upcoming HITB (Hack in the Box) Security Conference how an attacker can use JavaScript and TCP/IP packets to remotely exploit a flaw in the Intel processor. The conference will be held in Malaysia over a pe... |
14 July 2008
09:25 GMT |
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On a home front, Kaspersky software has been doing rather well recently, which has determined the company to expand. At the recent 10th annual partner conference held in St. Petersburg, Kaspersky let its worldwide partners in on the expansion plans, which include opening an office in Australia. Eugene Kasperky, as c... |
8 July 2008
06:11 GMT |
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Security software provider Kaspersky has just released a top 20 of the viruses that plagued the web last month. The results were not astounding, with the generic Trojan Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q still leading the board. As a matter of fact, out of the total 20 malicious programs, 15 were Trojans. In regard to the co... |
3 July 2008
04:45 GMT |
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A freeware file recovery tool is more than enough to render useless an otherwise unbreakable piece of malware which is designed to encrypt files on compromised computers with a RSA 1.024 bits algorithm, and hold them captive until the user agrees to pay the attacker for the decrypting tool. Detected as Win32/Gpcode.G... |
17 June 2008
10:33 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab's Anti-Spam 3.0 has recently received the anti-spam certification from ICSA Labs which underlines the fact that the application is really efficient when it comes to blocking unsolicited email traffic. The ICSA Labs certification is only granted to security applications that manage to discover more ... |
25 April 2008
17:56 GMT |
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Kaspersky is making headway with the development of its latest iteration of antivirus products. Both Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security have reached Release Candidate stage, which means that the RTM is on the horizon. While KAV and KIS 8.0 are still in testing, the Russian-based security developer i... |
31 March 2008
14:56 GMT |
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As per usual, every month the security companies release a Top Ten Most [something] malware chart, and when it was Kaspersky's turn to present the world with its findings, the people there watched in awe how, for the first time ever, the virus branch of malicious programs was dethroned by adware.The situation is... |
6 March 2008
10:18 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab, one of the world's most appreciated antivirus solutions provider, announced the release of Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0, a new product that offers integrated protection for smartphones running Windows Mobile and Symbian. Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0 comes with powerful protection for data stored... |
29 February 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Windows Server 2008 is barely out the door, and Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky is already good to go when it comes down to protecting the server platform. According to Kaspersky, its antivirus solution Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0, for Windows Server Enterprise Edition, is the first to cross the line of the Windows Se... |
28 February 2008
07:30 GMT |
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This one goes out to all the remaining dial-up users all over the world. Be warned! Some cyber criminals will single you just because of it and you don't want to have to fix the damage they'll do. Right now you have a bull's-eye on your balls, because they'll hit you where it hurts most. The lates... |
7 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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