{"id":2279,"date":"2013-08-28T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2020-02-26T18:57:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:57:46","slug":"kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing\/2279\/","title":{"rendered":"KIS Shines in Independent Anti-Phishing Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phishing is a dangerous type of Internet fraud that uses fake websites to swipe user logins and passwords to hijack their online accounts to steal money or spread spam and malware through compromised email accounts and social networking platforms. It is a very effective tool used by online attackers, and it is on the rise.<\/p>\n

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The good news is that users have options to protect themselves, including Kaspersky Internet Security 2014<\/a>, which recently blocked 99 percent of phishing urls in independent testing<\/a> conducted by antivirus testing lab AV-Comparatives.<\/p>\n

Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 recently blocked 99 percent of phishing urls in independent testing conducted by antivirus testing lab AV-Comparatives.<\/div>\n

AV-Comparatives tested the anti-phishing protections of various security products in a simulation designed to replicate typical web browsing conditions. It was carried out using Windows 7 PCs with two scenarios. The first checked for false alarms on 400 popular banking sites, while the second assessed phishing URL detection rates. Those URLs targeted various types of personal data, including login credentials for PayPal, online banking and credit cards, email accounts, eBay, social networks and online games, among others.<\/p>\n

Kaspersky\u2019s product blocked 99 percent of the 187 phishing websites while producing zero false alarms among the 400 legitimate URLs, earning first place among its competitors with an Advanced + award from AV-Comparatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhishing websites pose a real threat to users,\u201d said Nikolay Grebennikov, chief technology officer for Kaspersky Lab. \u201cAbout 20 percent of all phishing attacks mimic banks and other financial organizations and can result in the very real loss of money. That\u2019s why we are constantly improving our anti-phishing technologies, and independent tests like this one demonstrate just how effective our work is.\u201d<\/p>\n

A recent survey<\/a> by B2B Communications, in conjunction with Kaspersky Lab, showed that the number of Internet users who encountered phishing attacks over the last 12 months grew from 19.9 million to 37.3 million, an increase of 87 percent. Kaspersky Internet Security 2014\u2019s success in the anti-phishing testing wasn\u2019t its first successful independent testing, having earned high marks<\/a> from AV-Comparatives for its protection capabilities earlier this year. The product\u2019s predecessor, Kaspersky Internet Security 2013, also excelled in multiple independent tests<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phishing is a dangerous type of Internet fraud that uses fake websites to swipe user logins and passwords to hijack their online accounts to steal money or spread spam and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[180],"class_list":{"0":"post-2279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-products","8":"tag-kaspersky-internet-security"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing\/2279\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing\/2370\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing\/2454\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing\/2307\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing\/2592\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing\/1462\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing\/2592\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing\/2592\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/kaspersky-internet-security\/","name":"kaspersky internet security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15605,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/15605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}