Manila, Philippines – Young Filipino entrepreneurs are now given the chance to build their knowledge in cybersecurity and win $50,000 or over P2 million* prize fund as Kaspersky Lab recently announced a brand-new global initiative designed to identify and nurture new talent for the security industry. Kaspersky Lab invites Filipino...
Phishing attacks are by far the most popular form of cybercrime in the 21st century. There have been news reports on the lists of organizations whose customers fell victim to phishing attacks. Phishing scams increase in quality and quantity every day. Whereas spam tends to be merely an annoying distraction,...
Popular connected home entertainment devices pose a real cyber security threat due to vulnerabilities in their software, and a lack of elementary security measures such as strong default administrator passwords and encryption of Internet connection. Kaspersky Lab security analyst David Jacoby conducted a research experiment in his own living room...
Small businesses are “soft targets” of cybercriminals since they lack focus on information technology (IT) strategy, according to secure content and threat management solutions developer Kaspersky Lab. Based on the Kaspersky Lab’s 2014 IT Security Risks summary report, very small businesses (VSBs) with fewer than 25 employees are the least...
Internet-connected cars are now becoming a reality and various international studies show that their market will continue to grow in the near future. But this emerging trend in the automotive industry can also become a new vehicle for cybercrimes, according to a leading developer of secure content and threat management...
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions presents FriendOrFoe – a free app for Facebook that allows users to assess just how “valuable” their friends are, and even shows what others think of them. The app will reveal which of those hundreds of followers are...
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, revealed in a recent global study that keeping off certain sites and blocking the launch of third-party applications are the most popular ways of employers to ensure IT security. The study titled Global IT Security Risks: 2012 showed...
Secure content and threat management solutions developer Kaspersky Lab is alerting Filipinos, banks and services against financial cyber attacks that dramatically increased in number last year. According to the findings of Kaspersky Lab’s study “Financial cyber threats in 2013,” cybercriminals around the world are trying harder than ever to acquire...
Bagging one of the top prizes in the recent regional round, three students of the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UPD) are advancing to the final phase of an international conference hosted by secure content and threat management solutions developer, Kaspersky Lab. The research paper of Computer Science students Adelen Victoria...
An online security game, an Android device-based log-in system, an access control for personal health record systems and an open source-based cellular system. These are research projects designed by Filipino students which are among the 15 finalists currently competing for the top three prizes in the Asia Pacific, Middle East...
The experts at Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, have summarized spammer activity for 2013: – The proportion of spam in email flows was 69.6% in 2013, which is 2.5 percentage points lower than the previous year – The percentage of emails with malicious...
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, revealed its predictions this 2014. Not surprisingly, much of what they have seen in their crystal balls is connected to the fall-out from Edward Snowden’s revelations. End user forecast Cybercriminals will target your: Privacy After the Snowden scandal...
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