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Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice
News Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted what they believe is the first virus for OpenOffice, the open source rival to Microsoft's Office productivity suite. The virus, dubbed Stardust, is capable of infecting OpenOffice and StarOffice, which is...
[June 1, 2006, 13:20]
Kaspersky confirms antivirus flaw
News Kaspersky Lab confirmed Tuesday that a potentially serious flaw exists in its antivirus software, but said a fix is on the way. The actual threat posed by the.vulnerability is minimal and cannot affect the level of antivirus protection provided by...
[October 5, 2005, 10:00]
Is tech-savvy virus dangerous or not?
News Kaspersky Lab has already identified five plug-ins that infect all ZIP and RAR archives on a computer's hard drives send messages with encode plug-ins to the virus research newsgroup alt.comp.virus find and infect machines that have already been...
[November 16, 2000, 8:09]
Ten free security utilities you should be using review
Reviews America Online's Active Virus Shield, powered by Kaspersky Lab, is one of the better free antivirus packages available for Windows users. The program installs smoothly, pulls down hourly virus definition signatures from Kaspersky Lab and features...
[July 31, 2007, 13:06]
Lumbering viruses infect PCs worldwide
News But Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab announced Monday that it recently had seen a dramatic uptick in Hybris infection reports, saying the bug was "particularly active in Latin America although infections by this virus have also been found in Europe".
[November 15, 2000, 10:37]
Twitter plays host to data-stealing malware
News Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers. The profile, with an alias that means 'pretty rabbit' in Portuguese, has posted a link that purports to be a pornographic video, but...
[August 6, 2008, 13:04]
Kaspersky warns of Facebook, MySpace worm
News A new worm is spreading via Facebook and MySpace, turning victims' computers into zombies on a botnet, Kaspersky Lab said on Friday. When infected machines next log onto the social networks, they automatically send the malicious messages out to new...
[August 4, 2008, 8:16]
Kaspersky: Security not part of Microsoft's identity
Blog Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder and CEO of anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, has criticised Microsoft's brand image after the launch of its Security Essentials. Kaspersky also voiced concerns about internet security, citing the main flaw as too much...
[October 19, 2009, 15:55]
Kaspersky flaw 'opens back door'
News A "critical" flaw in Kaspersky Lab's antivirus software could let an attacker commandeer systems that use the products, a security researcher warned on Monday. The problem lies in Kaspersky's antivirus library, security researcher Alex Wheeler...
[October 4, 2005, 9:55]
Kaspersky websites hacked while being built
Blog Breaking in is therefore an easy task, but in such cases there is nothing to steal or damage - the websites are not yet live and are not linked to other Kaspersky Lab corporate websites. Russian security vendor Kaspersky's nascent Malaysian website...
[July 22, 2008, 16:33]
Kaspersky launches hosted email service
News Kaspersky isn't feeling the pinch, but the antivirus market is becoming more and more commoditised," said Kerstin Reiners, head of UK marketing for Kaspersky Lab. Russian antivirus company Kaspersky has launched a hosted email-filtering service.
[January 23, 2008, 7:23]
Linux viruses from China predicts Russian expert
News Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Lab Anti-Virus in Moscow, says the increasing popularity of the open source operating system in the West, combined with the dramatic uptake of Linux in China, will result in a plague of Linux viruses...
[January 24, 2000, 13:51]
The Russian approach to tackling data breaches
News Natalya Kaspersky set up antivirus company Kaspersky Lab with then husband Eugene Kaspersky in 1997. The company really needed to look to the future and address other opportunities, one of which is the market for information-leakage detection and...
[April 29, 2008, 17:41]
Expensive Trojan emerges in Russia
News The Trojan horse was first spotted by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, which calls it RedBrowser. The malicious code poses as an application that promises people the ability to visit mobile Internet sites using text messages instead of an actual Net...
[March 1, 2006, 14:05]
'PayPal' virus spread tailing off
Talkback Why there, on the list of AV companies, is no Kaspersky Lab ? They are the best.
[November 21, 2003, 19:42]
Facebook reassures users after malware warnings
News The worm was first flagged up by security firm Sophos, just days after another one had been identified by Kaspersky Lab. Facebook security chief Max Kelly has assured users in a blog post that the social network is "fighting the good fight" when it...
[August 11, 2008, 9:00]
Kaspersky quarantines Windows Explorer
News Users of Kaspersky Lab's antivirus products noticed the issue, which Kaspersky claimed lasted two hours, on Wednesday night. David Emm, a senior technology consultant at Kaspersky Lab, told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that the company was still examining...
[December 21, 2007, 11:50]
Russian hackers 'sold WMF exploit'
News Competing hacker groups in Russia were peddling the exploit code responsible for the WMF attacks last December for $4,000, according to security company Kaspersky Lab. One of the purchasers of the exploit is involved in the criminal adware/spyware...
[February 3, 2006, 8:30]
Cloud won't become standard, says Kaspersky
News Kaspersky, chief executive of Kaspersky Lab, who spoke to ZDNet UK at Infosec 2009. Cloud computing will not overtake traditional network-based computing, as companies weigh up the risks and benefits of the cloud, according to Eugene
[May 14, 2009, 14:47]
Cybercriminals get stuck into honeypots
News Cybercriminals are increasingly fighting antivirus vendors and each other in pursuit of illegal gain, Kaspersky Lab said on Tuesday. Criminals would use legions of zombie computers called botnets to bombard honeypot networks with data to hinder or...
[April 4, 2006, 16:25]
