NYF International TV & Film Awards announces 2012 winners at NAB

NEW YORK, US: The 55th New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards, announced this year's winning entries at the 2012 awards ceremony on Tuesday, 17 April at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas. Geoffrey Mason, senior production specialist for ESPN, was awarded the NYF Television & Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. 19 Apr 2012 08:02

Kaspersky Lab uncovered unique 'fileless' bot attacks

MOSCOW, RUSSIA / JOHANNESBURG, SA: A simple teaser of Internet news headlines was the launch-pad for a unique malware attack, with cybercriminals creating malicious code which operated without creating files on the infected system. 28 Mar 2012 11:13

Kaspersky Lab shows 864% growth in five years in EMEA

MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that it has been ranked in Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM EMEA. With 864% growth in five years, Kaspersky Lab was recognised as one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies from 24 EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) countries based on five-year average percentage revenue growth. 28 Mar 2012 10:29

Kaspersky Lab: Multiple Platform Security now a critical requirement

MOSCOW, RUSSIA / JOHANNESBURG, SA: Statistics* show that 13.9% of South African households own Tablet devices, and 66.3% of South Africans personally own a smartphone. What's more, 74.2% of local tablet users indicate that they also use a desktop PC, laptop and smartphone - in essence, multiple devices, all of which access the Internet. 5 Mar 2012 09:23

Kaspersky Lab continues rapid growth with revenues up 14% in 2011

MOSCOW, RUSSIA / JOHANNESBURG, SA: Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, has announce that it successfully achieved significant sales growth in 2011. 10 Feb 2012 11:54

Kaspersky Lab issues spam report for December 2011

MOSCOW, RUSSIA / JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: Kaspersky Lab has announced the publication of its spam report for December 2011. The last month of the year was predictably quiet - compared to November the share of spam in email traffic fell 4.4% and averaged 76.2% for the month. 27 Jan 2012 08:04

Kaspersky Lab: Duqu, Stuxnet... Team created other malicious programs

MOSCOW, RUSSIA: New information on the infections with the Duqu and Stuxnet Trojans confirms that one team is behind this family of malicious programs, and also permits the assumption that a single platform was used, which is flexibly adaptable to specific targets. Besides, this platform may have been developed long before the Stuxnet epidemic and used more actively than has been thought up to now. 16 Jan 2012 11:24

Kaspersky Lab: Cyber threats in 2012... Targeted attacks, cyber warfare, mobile threats

MOSCOW, RUSSIA: From Hacktivism to Mac Malware, 2011 was a year full of IT security incidents. Kaspersky Lab's experts have picked out the key trends of the past 12 months and highlighted the major new features on the security landscape. Looking at these stories gives us an idea of what we can expect in 2012. 12 Jan 2012 11:24

Kaspersky Lab: Changes, new appointments

MOSCOW, RUSSIA / JOHANNESBURG, SA: Vasily Dyagilev will be appointed managing director of Kaspersky Lab, Emerging Markets. The position is being vacated by Garry Kondakov who is set to take over as the company's chief sales and marketing officer (CSMO). 7 Dec 2011 09:14

Overview of the latest threat statistics and global danger areas

MOSCOW, RUSSIA / JOHANNESBURG, SA: Kaspersky Lab has announced that details of threats detected by the company's cloud technologies are now available on Securelist to all those interested in IT security. 6 Dec 2011 08:49

Overview of European Internet usage in September 2011

LONDON, UK: comScore, Inc has released an overview of Internet usage in Europe, showing 373.4 million unique visitors went online in September 2011 for an average of 26.4 hours per person. This release highlights Internet usage in 49 European markets aggregated into the European region and provides individual reporting on 18 markets. 17 Nov 2011 09:46

'Camo Bear' launches new Nikon Coolpix AW100

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN / AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS: Perfect Fools, the Stockholm and Amsterdam creative studio, is launching 'Camo Bear', a fun viral film, as part of an online campaign for the Nikon Coolpix AW100. 4 Nov 2011 08:05

Insight on Duqu - the step-brother of Stuxnet?

MOSCOW, RUSSIA: The spread across the Internet of several versions of the malicious program Duqu has become a main news item in the IT security industry of late. 2 Nov 2011 10:32

Kaspersky Lab releases Global IT Security Risks Survey results

MOSCOW, RUSSIA / JOHANNESBURG, SA: 91% of companies globally have experienced an IT threat over the last 12 months according to Kaspersky Lab's Global IT Security Risks Survey. In fact, over the period, 61% of the attacks were due to malware infection, 48% of companies have noticed an increase in the number of cyber attacks and 30% of companies have lost critical business data. 27 Oct 2011 07:39