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• CeBIT 2012: Social media is a tool for cyber criminals, says Eugene Kaspersky

  Social media is the latest tool in the arsenal of cyber criminals, with groups using social networking websites such as Twitter to “manipulate the masses” into thinking a certain way, according to Kaspersky Labs’ co-founder and chief executive, Eugene Kaspersky.

• Kaspersky launches endpoint security offering

  Kaspersky Lab has launched its new endpoint security solution, announcing details of Endpoint Protection 8.0 and Security Centre 9 in Sydney last night.

• Botnets decentralise after Redmond’s kingpin takedowns

  Recent efforts by Microsoft and law enforcement to take down the biggest spamming botnets may have helped fight pharmaceutical companies but they have had little effect on overall spam levels.

• Sea Eagles fly with Kaspersky sponsorship

  The Manly Sea Eagles announced a new major sponsor, IT security company, Kaspersky Lab.

• AusCERT 2011: In Pictures: Exhibitors out in force

  AusCERT 2011 is about more than just the speakers, security vendors are out in force promoting their services with eye catching stands.

• Kaspersky progress with local data centre this year

  Russian anti-virus vendor Kaspersky is expected to move to a new co-location facility this year as it moves to choose a new site for a purpose-built independent data centre in either Victoria or Western Australia.

• Gumblar Trojan vanishes suddenly yet again

  A prolific variant of the Gumblar Trojan has performed another vanishing act, disappearing suddenly from malware figures gathered by Kaspersky Lab.

• Kaspersky invents security suite for 'expert' user

  Kaspersky Lab has invented a new security product that combines bits of its current consumer security suite with new capabilities such as encryption, backup, password management, and the ability to manage the product across a network.

• Kaspersky false positive tags Google Adsense as Trojan

  Following an update, Kaspersky Antivirus today falsely identified Google Adsense as a malicious script.

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  The Grill: Eugene Kaspersky

  Kaspersky Labs chief, a former Russian Army senior lieutenant and virus 'entomologist', talks security with Computerworld.

• Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam

  Windows PCs infected with the Conficker worm have turned into junk mail-spewing robots capable of sending billions of spam messages a day, a security company warned.

• Security Vendor Breaches: Fallout Justified

  Kaspersky Lab and F-Secure were up-front in acknowledging recent hacks against them, but the negative fallout is still justified.

• Kaspersky says Web hack 'should not have happened'

  It's the worst thing that can happen to a computer security vendor: This weekend, Moscow's Kaspersky Lab was hacked.

• Kaspersky, OpenDNS collaborate to slow Conficker worm

  OpenDNS has added a feature to its Domain Name System (DNS) services to fight a widespread worm, with help from Russian security company Kaspersky Lab.

• Security vendors leaving old-school malware detection behind

  Step 1: Identify a computer virus specimen. Step 2: Create a "signature" to detect and eradicate the virus, and push the signature file out to a computer. Step 3: Repeat steps 1 and 2 again and again for new viruses and their variants.