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Tips to protect your devices, your home network, and your privacy against cybercrime.

Updated October 9, 2018: Google has changed app permission settings in Android Oreo, adding a new group called “Special app access.” More details are available in “App permissions in Android

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — families gearing up for the holiday season, bright-eyed shoppers making their lists and checking them twice…cybercriminals licking their chops and picking

Facebook’s settings are a moving target. Over the past few years, the company has changed various settings several times, adding, moving, even removing options. Now it’s really easy to get

You’ve probably heard the word botnet more than once recently, and that’s hardly surprising. Any connected device can be zombified — turned into a part of a botnet. These include PCs, smartphones,

Do you have any idea of how many online services you actually use or sites and forums that you visit? If you were to track and count, the sheer number

Setting up a home Wi-Fi router used to be a complicated task that was typically confusing and difficult for the average computer user. Responding to that issue, ISPs and router

Usually when we talk about encryptor ransomware, we recommend that victims do not pay the ransom. To begin with, paying encourages malware creators to continue their operations. It’s simple supply

It can be tempting to disregard software update notifications. Everything seems to be working fine. Sometimes programs behave oddly or crash after an update. And by the way, you have

In the beginning, the Internet was not terrifically user friendly — early users needed tech chops just to get online, and they had to do so over a wired, dial-up connection.

The surest way to prevent your webcam from transmitting images or video is to cover its lens. Lots of security-minded folks do just that, having read scary stories about malware

Nowadays, free public Wi-Fi is available almost everywhere in our cities. We can access the Web from the streets to the subway and buses, not to mention venues ranging from

With so many games and apps available for download on your mobile devices, it’s important to remember that not all of them are suitable for children. That’s why you should be monitoring what your kid installs.

Many would see an aircraft just the way they see a car: should it be 15 or 20 years old, it is automatically perceived as obsolete. This reasoning is misleading.

From time to time, PC users face situations where a system is totally damaged and almost nothing can fix it. The Kaspersky Rescue Disk is our solution for such a situation.

Finally, we have arrived at a solution that may be convenient for all users: Maintenance Release 1 adds advanced scan settings to Kaspersky Internet Security 2015.

Whether you’re a victim or a witness, there are a number of sources you can submit online threat information to in order to make the Internet a safer place.