Kaspersky, an anti-virus and computer-security firm based in Moscow, created a tool called Krab Krawler, a program that searches through tweets. According to the company, ‘a quarter of Twitter messages contain a URL and half of those are generated by spammers and other Internet lowlifes.’
It seems that Twitter has been used by cybercriminals as the [...]

The CEO of Russia’s Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, says, “I’d like to change the design of the Internet by introducing regulation—Internet passports, Internet police, and international agreement—about following Internet standards.”
One of the big names in Internet security believes that the Internet has a huge problem: anonymity. The security expert thinks that it is now the [...]

The bane of all internet users, Cybercrime, is fast spreading itself in the realms of one of the most  secured social networking websites, Facebook. According to recent reports, hackers and other online menaces have been taking over various Facebook accounts and creating havoc over the web.
A Facebook user, Lisa Severens, got a virus in her [...]

Hackers from Russia and China have the reputation of being the chief cybercriminals around, while the biggest victims are said to be Europe and the US. In fact, the US Defense Department has forked over upwards of $100 million in six months for the purpose of strengthening the country’s cyber security.
Internet expert Ivan Zasursky notes [...]

They are mysterious, financially well-off, adrenaline-pumped, difficult to catch, and very powerful. With cybercrime on the upswing worldwide, Russian professional hackers are at their career best. It goes without saying, of course, that hackers thrive on the fact that everything in the world today is virtually run by computers. The worldwide financial and banking systems, [...]

Cybercrime costs a cool one trillion dollars worldwide. A new study from McAfee said that data theft and other offenses related to the World Wide Web have debilitated business at that staggering amount. Costs are due to the loss of intellectual property (IP) and expenses for the repair of damage. The study is based on [...]