Don’t rest on your laurels. Patch your vulnerable computer systems now.
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Kaspersky Lab Spotlighted in CRN’s 2016 Partner Marketing Guide
Kaspersky Lab North America announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Kaspersky Lab in its first ever 2016 Partner Marketing Guide.
Don’t believe everything you read about ‘unsafe’ security products
Online reports about the safety of security products can be very alarming, which is why we want to address those concerns and provide assurance that we take them very seriously.
You may recently have read about the discovery of a vulnerability in a number of online security products, specifically regarding ‘code hooking.’ The issue, when originally found, affected a number of antivirus companies, including AVG.
We took this vulnerability in our products very seriously when we first learned of it in December 2015, and we resolved it within two days. In fact, enSilo, the research company that identified the issue, credited our fast response in an article titled ‘Learning from AVG on Doing it Right’.
The new articles on this topic arose from enSilo’s ‘Captain Hook’ report, which details potential security issues regarding the incorrect implementation of code hooking and injection techniques. There is no reference to AVG in this report, and any media articles mentioning AVG in conjunction with this report are inaccurate.
enSilo has not disclosed any new vulnerability or security issue with our products, which they confirmed when we contacted them. Our previous experience with enSilo indicates they are a responsible company that reports issues to vendors prior to disclosing them publicly.
AVG encourages developers and researchers to report any issues with our products through our proactive bug bounty program. This process allows us to investigate potential issues fully and take the steps to fix or mitigate as necessary without unduly alarming our users.
I would like to thank enSilo for their valued partnership to date in helping us to protect our customers in an ever-changing security landscape.
Payment card (in)security and you
A Russian cyber-crime group seems to have hacked their way into the computer systems at Oracle.
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Nemucod is back and serving an ad-clicking backdoor instead of ransomware
The trojan downloader Nemucod is back with a new campaign. However, it has changed the payload served to its victims – ransomware is not its go-to malware.
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Car hacking: Defcon style
This year at Defcon, the car hacking village is bigger than ever, says Cameron Camp. Key observation? The tools are getting better.
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NIST: It’s time move on from SMS 2FA
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the US Department of Commerce, it is time to move on from SMS 2FA.
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Black Hat 2016: When middleware takes over the world
In years past at Black Hat here in Las Vegas, there was row after row of hardware, then, in later years, row after row of software – Now there’s row after row of middleware.
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PosCardStealer and Large-scale Attacks Jeopardize PoS Systems
Point of Sale terminals are one of the cybercriminal’s most desired objectives. Protect yourself from PosCardStealer!
Talent Lab Helps Young Professionals Find Their Way into Cybersecurity
Kaspersky Lab announced today the launch of Talent Lab, an international competition for university students and young professionals aged 18-30.