The days of nasty pop-ups and overlays, flashy GIFs with saucy content, auto-playing video commercials and other less-than acceptable, intrusive and distracting advertisements are gone. One of the most popular

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue rounds up the latest security news from the month of January 2014. Download podcast for offline listening  

A new version of Facebook for Android drew some media attention because of the SMS reading permissions it requires, raising users’ concerns regarding privacy. Developers do have a reasonable explanation,

It appears that PCs are not only able to spy on you via cameras, but they’re also able to listen in on you on as well, and in a discreet

If you have been following our blog for a while, you might already know how to block games by age rating, how to limit children’s access to specific applications, and

While the breach itself seemed only to impact those of us in the United States, chances are you’re aware that the American retail giant Target suffered an enormous data breach

To summarize Costin Raiu, the director of Kaspersky Lab’s research arm, the vast majority of malicious files are what he calls crimeware — computer programs deployed by cybercriminals seeking to

You might be aware that public transportation is the most likely place to get your valuables stolen. Your wallet is not the only target for pickpockets, they also aim for

Learn step-by-step instructions on how to protect your device from theft.

We are proud to announce that Kaspersky Internet Security, the flagship home user product of Kaspersky Lab, has received the ‘Product of the year’ award from the independent testing lab

For as long as I’ve been working in the security industry, which – in the spirit of full disclosure – hasn’t been a very long time, I have been shocked

Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 features the Quarantine component. We have received many questions about how this component works, so we are going to explain it in this tip.   In

We talk about hackable consumer devices a lot here on the Kaspersky Daily. Generally though, the hacks are hypothetical, performed in controlled environments by computer scientists and professional hackers, some

At the end of 2012, we thought were about to observe the End of the world. In 2013, the end of Futurama was gravely approaching. 2014 will bring us the

The name Dropbox has become synonymous with intrapersonal large file sharing, as has Google+ Drive (formerly Google Docs) and, to a lesser degree, Microsoft’s SkyDrive. But these options aren’t for

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that owes much of its popularity to its rather volatile — and occasionally very high — price. Its potential for investors has made it a tempting

There is a position at Kaspersky Lab that exists that is officially named ‘content analyst’. To put it simply, the content analyst’s task is to create content filter databases, which

Reports emerged earlier this week that the Starbucks’ iOS mobile application could be exposing the personal information of any customers that downloaded it. To their immense credit – especially considering

You woke up after a night out and your phone is nowhere to be found. With Kaspersky Internet Security for Android you no longer have to recollect the events of

A number of widely used iOS banking applications from some of the world’s most prominent banks contain bugs that expose users to data theft and account takeovers. Specifically, a knowledgeable