Adobe Systems this week rushed out an emergency patch to plug a security hole in its widely-installed Flash Player software, warning that the vulnerability is already being exploited in active attacks. Adobe said a “critical” bug exists in all versions of Flash including Flash versions 21.0.0.197 and lower (older) across a broad range of systems, including Windows, Mac, […]

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week warned about a “dramatic” increase in so-called “CEO fraud,” e-mail scams in which the attacker spoofs a message from the boss and tricks someone at the organization into wiring funds to the fraudsters. The FBI estimates these scams have cost organizations more than $2.3 billion in […]

Gmail recently announced that they have approximately one billion active users per month.  That has made it possible for their other services like Android, Maps, YouTube, Chrome, and WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) to become widely popular. Now, Google has another purpose: to make our emails safer. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn, 1 & 1 Mail and Comcast (the leading […]

In February 2016, the Internet was shaken by an epidemic caused by the new ransomware Trojan Locky (detected by Kaspersky Lab products as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Locky). The Trojan has been actively propagating up to the present day. Kaspersky Lab products have reported attempts to infect users with the Trojan in 114 countries around the world. Analysis of […]

“Log-out” is the hardest button to click. Can anyone deny that we are hooked on social media? Many of us do not even manage to hold back at work: taking our breaks to message friends on our open Facebook pages or reading what is happening on Twitter. What at first seems an unimportant habit, can have […]