Careless staff among top causes of cyberattacksUninformed or careless employees are one of the most likely causes of a cybersecurity incident — second only to malware, said a new report, adding that staff hide IT security incidents in 44 per cent of businesses in Saudi Arabia. More… |
Smartphones ‘a distraction at work’: studyNew research shows that we are 26 per cent more productive without our smartphone, according to a new psychological experiment by the Universities of Würzburg and Nottingham Trent, commissioned by Kaspersky Lab. While More… |
Men more attached to their phones compared to womenWomen can stay away from their phones for twice as long as men; however, neither can go one minute without checking their phones, according to new research. If you’re waiting for a friend, a colleague or even a doctor’ More… |
Kaspersky threatened to ‘rub out’ rival, email showsIn 2009, Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of one of the world's top security companies, told some of his lieutenants that they should attack rival antivirus software maker AVG Technologies NV by "rubbing them out in the outhouse," on More… |
’Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals’Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, tried to damage rivals in the marketplace by tricking their antivirus software programs into classifying benign files as maliciou More… |
Arabic cyber spy group attacks thousands in MideastThe first known Arabic group to develop and run full-scale cyber-espionage operations has been targeting multiple high profile organisations and individuals from Middle East countries since 2011, said security software developer Kaspersky. More… |
Cybercrime ring 'steals $1 billion from banks'A multinational gang of cyber criminals has stolen as much as $1 billion from as many as 100 financial institutions around the world in about two years, Russian computer security company Kaspersky Lab said on Saturday. The company More… |
Cybercrime ring 'steals $1 billion from banks'A multinational gang of cyber criminals has stolen as much as $1 billion from as many as 100 financial institutions around the world in about two years, Russian computer security company Kaspersky Lab said on Saturday. The company More… |
Cyber threats increase by one billion in 2014A total of 6.2 billon malicious attacks on user computers and mobile devices were blocked by Kaspersky Lab antivirus products in 2014, one billion more than in 2013, the vendor of endpoint protection solutions reported. In 2014 Ka More… |
Kaspersky upgrades multi-device protectionKaspersky Lab, a global provider of endpoint protection solutions, has upgraded a security product developed to protect users of Windows, OS X and Android devices from existing and new threats. The latest version of Kaspersky Inte More… |