News and Media Coverage

06 Nov
Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0 - Protect Your Phone or Mobile Device
Bright Hub, By Steve Mallard. The irony behind Kaspersky's Mobile Security is I had never thought or imagined the extent of the research that someone like Kaspersky could put into mobile devi...

27 Oct
A peek inside the bank malware epidemic
ZDNet, By, Ryan Naraine. My colleague at Kaspersky Lab Roel Schouwenberg has written a very interesting piece on the banker malware landscape, warning that attacks against financial institutions will ...

20 Oct
Kaspersky Internet Security 2009
Bright Hub, By Jon Buys. The suite of protection offered by Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 is impressive. Ranging from basic anti-virus protection to advanced application integrity monitoring, Kaspe...

17 Oct
2008 VARBusiness Annual Report Card: What's The Score?
VARBusiness (ChannelWeb), By Stefanie Hoffman.As the emerging 2008 VARBusiness Annual Report Card survey champion in Client Security Software, Kaspersky Lab rose head and shoulders above many of its c...

17 Oct
Intel Scores Highest In ARC Innovation Rankings
ChannelWeb, By Rick WhitingSolution providers are right to work with vendors that run effective partner programs, avoid channel conflict and offer generous margins. But all that doesn't mean much ...

17 Oct
What Makes Winners Tick
ChannelWeb, By Craig Zarley.Top quality products with hefty margins are mandatory, but VARs grading vendors in the 2008 VARBusiness Annual Report Card survey say attributes such as postsales support a...

25 Jun
More protection for smart phones
NPR - Marketplace Morning Report June 25, 2008 Software firms are starting to focus on security for smart phones to help prevent loss or theft of important data. Jill Barshay reports we could st...

24 Jun
Cellphone security seen as profit frontier
 By Byron AcohidoUSA TodayThe race is on to get businesses and consumers to pay for security for their cellphone the way they do for their PCs.Tech security companies see a lucrative emerging mar...

23 Jun
Coming: A Change in Tactics in Malware Battle
To keep up with the criminals, antivirus companies plan a major shift in approach, called 'whitelisting'.By Erik LarkinPC WorldAs a vast flood of new malware threatens to overwhelm antivirus...

16 Jun
How to salvage data lost to Gpcode.ak encryptor virus
By Ellen Messmer Network World June 16, 2008 Kaspersky says Gpcode.ak works by making a copy of the original file it wishes to kidnap using 1,028-bit encryption, then deleting the original. How...

13 Jun
Ransomware resisting crypto cracking efforts
By Robert Lemos SecurityFocus June 13, 2008 Antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab called on Internet users last week to help crack the encryption used by the latest variant of a malicious program that scra...

10 Jun
Redefining Anti-Virus Software
By Brian KrebsSecurity Watch June 10, 2008 ... Perhaps more telling than the whitelisting approach is the recent move by Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, which says it plans to incorporat...

09 Jun
Ransomware Encrypts Victim Files With 1,024-Bit Key
By Brian KrebsSecurity FixJune 9, 2008Now more than ever, it's important that Windows users ensure their machines are safe from hackers. A dangerous new strain of malicious software that holds the...

05 Jun
New crypto virus a looming threat
By Ellen Messmer Network World June 5, 2008Kaspersky Lab says the new variant of the Windows-based encryptor virus Gpcode, which hasn't been spotted for about 1 ½ years, is more of a...

02 Apr
New Technology Protects Cell Phones - Woburn Company Creates Program Able to Destroy Data
Woburn Company Creates Program Able to Destroy Data WCVB, ABC Channel 5 - BostonApril 2, 2008 WOBURN -- It could be the ultimate protection for your cell phone.A Woburn-based security company has deve...

01 Apr
New Tool Helps Protect, Locate Lost Cell Phones
By Peter PiazzaCIO TodayApril 1, 2008Kaspersky Mobile Security can help secure a cell phone if it goes missing, allowing you to send an SMS message that either temporarily locks the device or wipes ...

01 Apr
Ski Patrol
By Greg Masters SC Magazine April 2008 Boyne Resorts needed an easier way to protect its network and retail points-of-sale. It found a solution. A trip to the ski slopes or a golfing getaw...

28 Mar
Users Still Worst Enemy to Endpoint Security
By Daniel P. DerneWeek Mid-MarketMarch 28, 2008  BOSTON—The worst enemy of security on endpoints—including desktop and notebook computers and mobile devices both on and off the networ...

25 Mar
Independent Antivirus Test Labs Join Forces
By Robert VamosiCNETMarch 25, 2008On Tuesday, Anti-Malware Test Lab and AV-Comparatives.org announced an alliance toward becoming one of the most respected sources of objective and independent informa...

08 Jan
Schools Getting Computers
Schools Getting Computers Hartford Courant January 8, 2008  HARTFORD — Milner Elementary School will receive nine new computers thanks to a winning season for the New England P...

07 Jan
Digital Gifts That Keep on Giving By Robert Vamosi
January 7, 2008 -- Care should be taken when plugging holiday gift gadgets into your personal computer and laptop, said security researchers at Sans.org, Microsoft, and Kaspersky in recent blog posts....

07 Jan
CES Risk: Free USB Flash Drives By Thomas Claburn
January 7, 2008 -- Visitors to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week might want to forgo freebie flash drives, or at least use them with caution. The SANS Internet Storm Center has publ...

06 Jan
10 IT Companies To Watch in 2008 By Robin Bloor
January 6, 2008 -- As a final salute to the new year, 2008, here's a list of 10 companies that I ran into in 2007 or earlier and which I think will do well in 2008. In technology terms, it's a...

05 Jan
Patriot Touchdowns Score School Computers By Sarah Hinckley
January 5, 2008 -- Ramona and Harry Potter are going to have to make room for more characters in the Sherburne Elementary School computer lab.Thanks to a Massachusetts company, nine new computers are ...

05 Jan
Patriot touchdowns score school computers
Patriot touchdowns score school computersBy Sarah HinckleyRutland HeraldJanuary 5, 2008Ramona and Harry Potter are going to have to make room for more characters in the Sherburne Elementary School com...