personal data

Using persuasion instead of viruses: How scammers talk people into granting remote access to their computers.

The personal data of 257,000 Facebook users, including private messages belonging to 81,000 of them, has leaked online. Hackers claim to have access to 120 million accounts.

No PIN on your phone? Pickpockets will thank you for that.

How scammers are exploiting the GDPR fuss to extract personal data.

Harmless toy or a way to phish for personal data?

The dangers of online dating apps on work devices

Take our quiz and find out if your online dating activity is likely to come back and bite you.

Transatlantic Cable Podcast episode 2: autonomous pizza delivery, Sarahah’s privacy issues, reprieve for victims of Yahoo!’s data breach and more.

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

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

People are more into texting than talking. About 65% percent of us would prefer to have a long and painful conversation via Whatsapp than to have one-minute phone call or face-to-face meeting.

Like the invention of the fire pit, the history of the first password is lost to the depths of time. We know that Romans used them. Shakespeare mentioned passwords in The Tragedy

In the first months of 2016 a number of European countries have stated that Facebook is behaving irresponsible when it comes to users’ privacy. Facebook disagrees. In the beginning of

As you might have noticed, a security browser extension called Kaspersky Protection is installed simultaneously with our security solutions. In this post we will explain what it does and how to

You may not know this, but when you request something from a search engine, buy a product from an online shop, visit your favorite blog or read the latest news

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

Today a smartphone has become an integral part of our life. We constantly use phones for work, study, travel, and they are increasingly starting to know more about us than we

Following recent terrorist attacks accusations against encrypted means of online communications once again became louder. However the proposed solutions could create even more problems. Governments around the world – from

If you sit and think about it for a second, online phishing is not that far from actual fishing. The one major difference is that the online fishermen are criminals.

So your hotel stay has come to an end and its time for checkout. When it comes to the Internet, there are two schools of thought when it comes to

A year ago our colleague David Jacoby, a researcher at GReAT, successfully attempted to hack his own home and discovered a lot of curious things. David’s experiment inspired many Kaspersky Lab