The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee approved a bill on Tuesday to encourage companies to exchange information with the government on hacking attempts and cybersecurity threats, officials said. Despite concerns by some that the measure does not do enough to protect privacy, the committee voted 12-3 to advance the measure authored by its chairwoman, Dianne Feinstein, …
The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago, but online an “evil empire” is thriving. Security experts say the .su internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into a haven for hackers who’ve flocked to the domain space to send spam and steal money. Capitalist concerns rather than …
30 million open resolvers in the domain name system and a 200 per cent increase in the number of attacks in 2012 – these alarming figures were discussed by administrators at the 66th meeting of the RIPE IP address registry in Dublin this week. A panel discussion revolved around how to motivate the black sheep …
In October 2012, Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team initiated a new threat research after a series of attacks against computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies. A large scale cyber-espionage network was revealed and analyzed during the investigation, which we called «Red October» (after famous novel «The Hunt For The Red October»). read …
A recent analysis by Kaspersky Lab found that the computers of 33.4% of Internet users in Western Europe and North America were attacked at least once during the first six months of 2012 while users were browsing the Web. Read More
Today, the government gave up the Rojadirecta fight with a brief court filing that voluntarily dismissed the case but offered few details about why it had done so after battling for over a year. Read More
Since 2010, the number of users has grown, partly in direct proportion to the increase in the number of social websites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the Blackberry messenger service, and partly as a result of greater access to smart phones. Figures released in February 2012 showed that global sales of mobile …