Our recent report, “The Chronicles of the Hellsing APT: the Empire Strikes Back” began with an introduction to the Naikon APT, describing it as “One of the most active APTs in Asia, especially around the South China Sea”. Naikon was mentioned because of its role in what turned out to be a unique and surprising […]
Spam: features of the quarter New domain zones In January 2014 the New gTLD program of registration for new generic top-level domains designated for certain types of communities and organizations was launched. The main advantage of this program is the opportunity for organizations to choose a domain zone that is clearly consistent with their activities […]
It was the year 2004 and Bill Gates dared to predict the spam’s death was near. According to him, in only two years spam wouldn’t be a problem. In 2006 nothing had changed. Eleven years after that failed prediction, spam continues to flood daily our inbox, with huge amounts of emails in unknown languages with […]
BREAKING NEWS! Microsoft has released a bundle of 13 patch updates to fix about four dozen security vulnerabilities in Windows and associated software. Adobe has only pushed updates to fox some critical flaws in Flash Player and Adobe Air software and to fox vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Three of Microsoft patches are considered […]
Microsoft released a set of thirteen Security Bulletins (MS015-043 through MS015-055) to start off May 2015, addressing 46 vulnerabilities in a wide set of Microsoft software technologies. Three of these are rated critical for RCE and the rest of the May 2015 Security Bulletins are rated Important. Two of the critical Bulletins (043 and 044) are especially […]
Microsoft today issued 13 patch bundles to fix roughly four dozen security vulnerabilities in Windows and associated software. Separately, Adobe pushed updates to fix a slew of critical flaws in its Flash Player and Adobe Air software, as well as patches to fix holes in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Three of the Microsoft patches earned the […]
Password managers are a great way to supply random, unique passwords to a high number of websites. But most still have an Achilles’ heel: Usually, a single master password unlocks the entire vault.But a group of researchers has developed a type of password manager that creates decoy password vaults if a wrong master password is […]
The Australian Signals Directorate Top35 list of mitigation strategies shows us that at least 85% of intrusions could have been mitigated by following the top four mitigation strategies together. These are: application whitelisting, updating applications, updating operating systems and restricting administrative privileges. Kaspersky Lab has technological solutions to cover the first three of these (i.e. […]