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Read more: Protecting your holiday season from festive hacksWith the Christmas and New Year festive season looming ahead, many families and individuals are taking the rare opportunity to enjoy some well-deserved break from the gruelling monotony of work. With people travelling on holidays, going online to shop for that perfect Christmas gift for their loved ones, or just…
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Read more: How to decide on your company’s IT security budgetBy Alexander Moiseev, Chief Business Officer, Kaspersky Worldwide spending on information security products and services has been on the rise for years. According to Gartner, it’s going from $114 billion in 2018 (an increase of 12.4% from 2017) to forecasted growth of more than $124 billion in 2019. IT security leaders…
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Read more: Kaspersky uncovers zero-day in popular web browser exploited in the wild by the threat actorKaspersky’s automated technologies have detected a new exploited vulnerability in the Google Chrome web browser. Kaspersky has allocated the vulnerability as CVE-2019-13720 and reported it to Google. A patch has been released. Upon review of the PoC provided, Google confirmed that it is a zero-day vulnerability. Zero-day vulnerabilities are previously unknown software bugs that…
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Read more: Autumn harvest: Half of the Q3 DDoS attacks happened in SeptemberIn the third quarter of 2019, the number of DDoS attacks rose by a third compared to the previous period (30 percentage points) and Q3 2018 (32 percentage points) according to statistics gathered from Kaspersky DDoS Protection. This growth was primarily due to a spike in malicious activity in autumn.…
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Kaspersky blocks over 1 million Android attacks in Southeast Asia between January and September 2019
Read more: Kaspersky blocks over 1 million Android attacks in Southeast Asia between January and September 2019A recent Android mobile malware report by Kaspersky showed that Southeast Asia remains a target for cybercriminal attack campaigns. Of the more than 1 million attacks that Southeast Asia has seen, Kaspersky has blocked a total of 26,836 mobile malware attacks on Android users in Singapore for the period of…
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Read more: Fraudsters are hunting gamers before the Halloween saleKaspersky researchers have reported on their findings that certain phishing websites attempt to steal account credentials from popular gaming platform users. In particular, they found websites that would imitate an authorisation page on the Steam website to obtain a user’s login name and password. The fraudsters used a carefully crafted copy…
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Read more: Kaspersky detects more than 100 million attacks on smart devices in H1 2019Kaspersky honeypots – networks of virtual copies of various internet-connected devices and applications – have detected 105 million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first six months of the year. This figure is around nine times more than the number found in H1 2018…
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Read more: Kaspersky launches a new solution to combat privacy and security risks from civilian dronesKaspersky has launched a new solution designed to help organizations and property owners defend themselves from unauthorized trespassing by civilian drones. Through an exceptional combination of several sensors – including a new approach to drone detection founded by the company using laser scanning – and machine learning technologies, Kaspersky Antidrone…
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Read more: Trust, but verify: digital precaution helps parents protect children from possible online threatsWeighing up when to give your children online independence is one of the biggest dilemmas a modern parent can face. From stranger danger to cyberbullying, parents need to feel assured their kids will stay safe on the Internet. A new global survey from Kaspersky has found that when it comes to online…
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Read more: Kids in SEA use the internet mostly for online messaging, more for music, video streamingChildren in Southeast Asia today use the internet increasingly for video and music entertainment as well as for software downloads, and lesser for online messaging. More kids in the region use the World Wide Web to watch their favourite TV series like Game of Thrones and movies like Avengers, according…
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