Security News

Pain in the brain! Kaspersky warns of hackable brain implants
2018-10-29 20:15

That furious clicking you hear is Charlie Brooker frantically writing his next script A newly developed class of brain implants could also become hacking targets, researchers are warning.…

Russian State-Sponsored Operations Begin to Overlap: Kaspersky
2018-10-05 16:04

Kaspersky Lab security researchers have uncovered new evidence that shows overlaps between the activity of infamous Russian cyber-espionage groups Turla and Sofacy.  read more

NSA dev thrown in the clink for 66 months after letting Kaspersky, Russia slurp US exploits
2018-09-26 00:07

Pho gets five years and change after taking work home The now-former NSA employee at the heart of the Kaspersky Lab exploit slurping scandal has been thrown behind bars for five and a half years.…

Ex-NSA Hacker Sentenced to Jail Over Kaspersky Leak
2018-09-25 23:26

A former National Security Agency hacker whose leak of extremely top secret online spying materials led to the US government ban on Kaspersky software was sentenced to 66 months in prison Tuesday....

One-Third of Data Breaches Led to People Losing Jobs: Kaspersky
2018-09-14 12:42

Nearly one-third of data breaches suffered by companies around the world have resulted in someone losing their job, according to a study conducted earlier this year by Kaspersky Lab. read more

Talking Global Cyberwar With Kaspersky Lab's Anton Shingarev
2018-09-07 14:25

Theory Suggests we Need to Come to the Very Brink of Cyberwar Before Humanity Backs Down and Finds a Solution read more

Malware on ICS Increasingly Comes From Internet: Kaspersky
2018-09-07 12:49

Kaspersky Lab products installed on industrial automation systems have detected over 19,000 malware samples in the first half of 2018, and the company has determined that the Internet is an...

Kaspersky VPN Bug Leaked DNS Lookups
2018-08-13 10:15

A recently patched security vulnerability in the Kaspersky VPN application for Android resulted in DNS queries being exposed even after the user connected to a virtual server. read more

Kaspersky VPN blabbed domain names of visited websites – and gave me a $0 reward, says chap
2018-08-09 23:00

DNS leak flaw outside of bug bounty scope, it seems Kaspersky's Android VPN app whispered the names of websites its 1,000,000-plus users visited along with their public IP addresses to the world's...

Car Sharing Apps Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks: Kaspersky
2018-07-25 16:20

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have analyzed over a dozen mobile applications provided by car sharing companies and discovered serious security holes that can be exploited to obtain personal...