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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Here’s a malware that is said to destroy computers.  You may rest easy.  It doesn’t, no matter what hype has been surrounding this malware. Rombertik malware’s main purpose is to hook itself to the browser and keep track of what you type in.  Such credential stealing malware can lead to compromised bank accounts, stolen data, […]