This author has spent many years chronicling the exploits of black hat spammers who use hacked computers to relay junk email. But I’ve dedicated comparatively little time delving into ways of email marketers who technically follow U.S. anti-spam laws yet nevertheless engage in spammy practices. The latter is able to ply their trade because there are […]

A security researcher has found that Android phones can be easily hacked by a text file.   A specially crafted multimedia message (MMS) can do the job. This would leave a vast majority of Android users are at risk. All the attacker would need is the victim’s mobile number. The exploit has been called Stagefright, a […]

Just like sending greeting cards by post, physically presenting your CV for a prospective job offer is becoming extinct. The digital world in which we live has rendered the act of traditional post as unnecessary – now it is easy, not just for the candidates but also the HR department, to receive CVs by electronic […]

Q2 in figures According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab solutions detected and repelled a total of 379,972,834 malicious attacks from online resources located all over the world. Kaspersky Lab’s web antivirus detected 26,084,253 unique malicious objects: scripts, exploits, executable files, etc. 65,034,577 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components. 51% of web […]

With the barrage of news about Hacking Team, the massive cyber espionage by governments, and the US intelligence raids, it might seem that cybercriminals are taking a different route compared to your average criminal. However, don’t let this fool you as they are all after the same thing which, as the famous song goes, is […]