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Kaspersky Lab presents its email top 20 for February
February brings calm at the top, a wealth of Diehard variants and a preponderance of worms
Federal Constitutional Court stops the federal Trojan
"Politicians must not return to business as usual and look for ways around it".
Kaspersky Lab introduces Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Server Enterprise Edition
Expanded management functions for x86 servers and terminal server environments/ Product already certified for Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Association of the German Internet industry welcomes Federal Constitutional Court decision
The association (eco) calls on legislators at federal and state level to postpone corresponding legislative procedures and first think thoroughly about the risks and problems of this investigative method.
Final ruling issued on online searches
The final ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court: online searches are permitted in principle, but only in the event of an existential threat to an exceptionally important legal interest.
“confoki”: parental controls for the internet
Website labelling system for all operating systems.
Court convicts student over cyberattack on Estonia
A court in Estonia has fined a student of Russian descent €1,100 for a cyberattack carried out in May 2007.
Kaspersky Lab Publishes Its Virus Chart
In the final month of 2007, the virus world ranged from 12-byte specimens to 85 MB giants, eleven-times-packed backdoors and familiar names across different categories.
More than 95 percent browse with unpatched software
Secunia warns of a new dangerous QuickTime vulnerability.
Linden Lab wants to delete dubious banks from Second Life
The virtual online world Second Life will soon have to manage without many financial-service providers and banks that have already established themselves there.
Panda Security’s 2007 virus year in review
At the start of the new year, Panda Security publishes – as it does every year – a list of the twelve most unusual computer pests of the past twelve months.
Release Group LEX Announces Withdrawal
fter the international search operation against suspected release-group members on September 20 of this year, set in motion by the GVU and led by the Hürth criminal police, the associated scene remains in motion
Course Successfully Set for Restructuring
Ronald Schäfer, previously Managing Director of the Society for the Prosecution of Copyright Infringements (GVU), will leave the organization's service on December 31, 2007, after almost three years of trusting cooperation with the board and committees.
Axel Diekmann Becomes New Managing Director of Kaspersky Labs GmbH
Axel Diekmann is to become the new Managing Director of Kaspersky Labs GmbH and will therefore manage the Russian company's business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland from January 1, 2008. The 44-year-old has worked as Channel Sales Manager for Kaspersky Lab since 2004. He succeeds Andreas Lamm, who is taking over the company's European business as Managing Director Europe.
Andreas Lamm Becomes European Head of Kaspersky Lab
At its last meeting, Kaspersky Lab's Board of Directors decided to reorganise the company's international structure. On January 1, 2008, five regional headquarters will be established to support and coordinate the activities of the local branches. Andreas Lamm, currently managing director of Kaspersky Labs GmbH, will head the European headquarters from Ingolstadt as Managing Director.
Kaspersky Lab: Top 20 for November
As every month, the antivirus specialist once again presented its hit list of the most widespread malware.
Kaspersky Lab Discovers “Universal Code” for Malware
The antivirus specialist discovered striking parallels between different pests
Kaspersky Lab Publishes Its October Extreme Virus Hit Parade
For the month of October, Kaspersky Lab once again publishes its extreme virus hit parade.
Spam avalanche: 95 percent of e-mails are junk
Trend is returning to pure text spam - pdf and images are declining.
Army of zombie PCs out of control
Infection mainly through drive-by downloads on supposedly harmless sites.
Kaspersky Lab publishes its hit parade of extreme viruses for September
Kaspersky Lab once again publishes its top ten greediest, nastiest, smallest, largest, best-hidden and most hostile pests. September seems to be a month of trojans: eight of ten extreme pests belong to this genus. The ranking includes dangerous 19-byte midgets and 243-MB giants, an old acquaintance in the e-mail distribution category and trojans, viruses and worms with numerous variants.
Big Brother Awards 2007: Prizes for C.S.I. and taxi association
Hans Dichand honored as a "Lifelong Nuisance".
Nvidia’s graphics cards become password crackers
The GPU’s computing power accelerates password recovery.
Kaspersky Lab launches Kaspersky Hosted Security Services
Kaspersky Lab presents Kaspersky Hosted Security Services at this year’s Systems. With mailDefend, webDefend and imDefend, companies can protect all of their Internet and communications traffic against malware and spam without installing software locally. The services are available immediately.
Kaspersky Lab analyzes first MP3 spam wave
Kaspersky Lab has subjected the MP3 spam mails that appeared for the first time to an initial analysis. Based on the findings obtained from this, the company expects that this form of spam will not prevail.
VoIP attack: First computer break-in via SIP
“Vulnerability shows that we now live in the Web 2.0 world”.
Skype plug-in turns out to be a data thief
VoIP company warns against supposed security package.
First MP3 spam in circulation
Once again, a new round in the competition between spam senders and spam filters is being ushered in. For the first time, a spam e-mail with an MP3 attachment has been caught in antispameurope’s filters.
Interop Berlin 2007 announces keynote programme with internationally renowned speakers
Interop Berlin 2007 takes place from November 6 to 8 at the Berlin exhibition grounds. Accompanying it is a three-day international specialist congress. The key players in the market such as Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Microsoft, Citrix, CA and Avaya are present here with visionaries as speakers.
Austria clears the way for the federal Trojan
Online search of private PCs permitted from autumn 2008.
Kaspersky Lab integrates PhishTank database into Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0
Kaspersky Lab is now integrating the PhishTank database into the anti-phishing module of Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0. The PhishTank service from the Californian company OpenDNS collects known phishing websites in a database that is constantly updated by the international open-source community. Kaspersky Lab has also been actively participating in this project for some time and supplements the PhishTank database with its own information about phishing sites.
Australia: Zombie hunters track down hijacked computers
The "Australian Internet Security Initiative" has dedicated itself to the goal of tracking down zombie PCs individually and cleaning them of malicious programs.
Kaspersky Lab presents its email top 20 for September 2007
The September rating was unable to confirm some forecasts by the virus experts at Kaspersky Lab: Contrary to expectations, the active spread of the Trojan Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.brk in August did not lead to the creation of a botnet, and the Warezov family is entirely absent from the September top 20.
Kaspersky Lab Extends Support Hours for End Customers
From October 15, 2007, Kaspersky Lab is significantly extending the availability of its telephone support team. The hotline will then be available to private customers at telephone number +49 (0)1805-554624 from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A call costs 14 cents per minute.
Kaspersky Lab Presents Kaspersky Hosted Security Services at Systems
Kaspersky Lab is presenting its complete range of enterprise security solutions at this year's Systems from October 23 to 26 at Messe München.
Kaspersky Lab Publishes Study on Password Theft in Online Games
Online games continue to enjoy growing popularity. But the more people plunge into virtual pleasure, the more lucrative it becomes for criminals to concern themselves with this subject. Because: virtual possessions can be worth real money in real life. And so some users of online games have specialized in swindling real money through the theft of virtual property.
“Anyone who brakes is out”
Kaspersky Lab will participate twice over at this year's Games Convention in Leipzig: Under the motto “anyone who brakes is out”, performance champion Kaspersky Lab shows the optimal protection for gamer PCs.
Hunt for first uploader of “The Simpsons Movie” on the net
Two days after the official cinema release of “The Simpsons Movie”, investigators from the GVU - Society for the Prosecution of Copyright Infringements together with P4M - The Internet Agents documented the first German-language pirated copy on the net during the night from Friday to Saturday.
Kaspersky Lab appoints Günter Fuhrmann Director Hosted Security
Kaspersky Lab has appointed Günter Fuhrmann Director Hosted Security Europe. Fuhrmann was most recently Managing Director at BlackSpider Technologies. The 46-year-old is to build the Kaspersky Hosted Security Service.
“Verified in Germany” Becomes a Quality Mark for German Software
Software errors cause economic damage of well over 100 billion euros annually in Europe. Because requirements are often misjudged during software development and the existing technology for troubleshooting is very laborious, manufacturers today spend 70-80 percent of their work on removing software errors.