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Kaspersky Lab is proud to announce our new strategic partnership with Vertu, the luxury mobile phone vendor. Thanks to our new deal, all Vertu customers will receive 12 months complimentary

Recent revelations about government surveillance have once more brought two-decade old PGP software  into the spotlight, as it remains a quite robust and secure mechanism for communications.  However, progress in

Everybody knows that nothing on the internet really goes away forever – except for maybe our privacy and dignity. So when we heard about SnapChat: a service that allegedly lets

Online behavior tracking by Web advertisement agencies attempting to better target consumers with products and other ads is a pervasive, persistent, and contentious practice on the Internet. The ad firms

There are potential risks that we all face online. These include malware, phishing scams and junk-mail.  But there’s an added dimension where children are concerned.  They’re less worldly-wise, so they

The world has been up in arms about the expansive and invasive reach of the U.S. government’s National Security Agency (NSA) ever since the world was introduced to Edward Snowden

If your kids haven’t gone back to school yet, they’re about to. That means school lunches, riding the bus and, of course, homework, are the norms again. And homework, of

It’s no secret to anyone to know that Google keeps every bit of data it collects about each of its users. This data includes, but is not limited to, search

Everyday millions of computers solve the same problem; these machines try to check if you are actually you and not some other person. The most popular tool to do that

Las Vegas – On the last day of July and the first day of August, a Roman empire-themed hotel and casino in the the Mojave Desert played host to what

There is an entire market of plugins out there designed to keep you safe while surfing the web on your browser of choice. Each one has lots of options; for

A newly discovered vulnerability in a popular browser exposes how photos can be taken of unsuspecting users. Further proof of hackers’ inventiveness appeared last week in the form of a

In late 2011, it emerged that Chinese hackers had thoroughly compromised the United States Chamber of Commerce, perforating the lobbying-group’s networks with a devastating chain of backdoors. Chamber officials admitted

It’s harder and harder to keep your personal information private when browsing the web, but fortunately there is an entire market of add-on utilities, known as plugins, designed to keep

Father’s Day is fast approaching, which means finding the perfect gift for dad should be at the top of your to do list.  And if you’ve had your eye on

Not long ago, Twitter was a novelty social media site that average users thought was silly. Now the microblogging tool is a vital news source and publishing platform, letting anyone

Have you ever been browsing the Internet and had a banner ad pop up for a product you’ve previously searched for? When you visit a favorite website, does it have

If you get a warm and fuzzy feeling when an app or website makes you agree to Terms of Service (ToS), as if you’ve just entered a mutually beneficial legal

Over the last 9 years Facebook has grown from a small social networking site originally intended for college students into a worldwide platform that is now used not only by

If we really wanted to thoroughly discuss ‘HTTPS’ and Digital Certificates, then we’d need to talk about cryptography, but don’t worry, because we’re going to go ahead and spare you

Modern smartphones consume so much energy that charging them once a day is not always enough. When they are used intensively, the user sometimes has to look for a power