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News Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Russia's Kaspersky Labs, told the RSA Conference in San Francisco the use of so-called "ransomware Trojans" is a key trend for 2007. The final version of GPCode used a 660-bit encryption key, which...
[07 Feb 2007]
Photo January 2006: silicon.com's Will Sturgeon travelled to Russia to bring news about how Kaspersky Labs is fighting cyber crime. 24 January 2006: silicon.com's Steve Ranger took a trip to Accenture's technology labs to check out what your high-street...
[20 Dec 2006]
News Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted 90 per cent of current malware will run on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista. Although at the moment Vista appears to be more secure than previous Windows operating systems...
[12 Dec 2006]
News Last week Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs also waded in to the Mac security debate, with its own findings reporting a similar hike in the number of vulnerabilities found in OS X. And while vulnerabilities and actual proven exploits are very...
[01 Aug 2006]
News And a separate survey by antivirus company Kaspersky Labs tested wi-fi networks in and across London and found that almost half (49 per cent) are open to attack from hackers because the networks are not using data encryption.
[30 May 2006]
Comment That puts the country down in sixth place, according to Kaspersky Labs, supporting security expert Eugene Kaspersky's understandably patriotic debunking of this theory. The US also accounted for about one-fifth of internet attacks and probes last...
[09 May 2006]
News Kaspersky Labs and Microsoft have recovered from an error that caused significant email troubles for some users of Microsoft's Antigen email security software. Antigen users started receiving updates for their Kaspersky Labs antivirus engine again...
[22 Feb 2006]
News The number of compromised computers at large on the internet has increased considerably over the past year with Trojan activity more than doubling, according to Kaspersky Labs. Kaspersky also noted a dramatic rise in the amount of spyware in the...
[10 Feb 2006]
News Competing hacker groups in Russia were peddling the exploit code responsible for the Windows Meta File (WMF) attacks last December for $4,000, according to security company Kaspersky Labs. A statement on the Kaspersky Labs site said more than a...
[03 Feb 2006]
News But Eugene Kaspersky, head of research and development at Kaspersky Labs, said the virus could cause havoc. Antivirus companies are at odds over the severity of a time-bomb virus which is set to go off on 3 February.
[31 Jan 2006]
News Eugene Kaspersky from Kaspersky Labs told silicon.com he fears the new laws will actually make no difference to the problem of internet crime. The IT security industry has almost unanimously given its backing to government plans to update the...
[26 Jan 2006]
Photo Despite this, the city is also home to a fast growing force in the IT security market.silicon.com recently travelled to the Russian capital to visit the offices of Kaspersky Labs. On the outskirts of Moscow, Kaspersky Labs occupies four floors of...
[25 Jan 2006]
Comment It's -40°c outside as I'm driven through the barren, ice-bound outskirts of Moscow to meet up with Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs. They learn much of what they know on the job, despite the fact Kaspersky tells silicon.com he's not opposed...
[25 Jan 2006]
News Speaking to silicon.com in Moscow, the eponymous head of Kaspersky Labs said companies' own agendas and some well-worn stereotypes about cyber crime stand in the way of reasoned discussion. Russian antivirus guru Eugene Kaspersky has hit out at...
[23 Jan 2006]
News The company claims CA, Kaspersky Labs, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec and Trend Micro were guilty of leaving their customers unprotected for at least 16 hours in the case of Sober variants and 21 days in the case of MyTob variants.
[19 Dec 2005]
News Antivirus company Kaspersky Labs said on its website that large numbers of infected emails have been intercepted. Kaspersky Labs identified the variants as Sober.u, Sober.v, and Sober.w. Infected messages may have a random subject line or none at...
[16 Nov 2005]
News Earlier this year, software maker Kaspersky Labs released its own mobile antivirus software. Nokia has entered a pact with Symantec to help secure its mobile phones from viruses that target certain kinds of handsets.
[06 Oct 2005]
News A "critical" flaw in Kaspersky Labs' antivirus software could let an attacker commandeer systems that use the products, a security researcher warned on Monday. The problem lies in Kaspersky's antivirus library, security researcher Alex Wheeler...
[04 Oct 2005]
News Kaspersky Labs and Trend Micro will do the same, company representatives said. ICSA Labs, a research and testing outfit, also participates. The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team is preparing to take the wraps off the Common Malware Enumeration...
[23 Sep 2005]
News However, as reported on silicon.com earlier, Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Labs, has expressed his belief that IM threats will be quickly brought under control as firms act to control the use of IM within the corporate network.
[19 Apr 2005]
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