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Olga Rumyantseva began her 7 Volcanoes expedition in Antarctica as the first Russian woman to climb Mount Sidley. Mount Sidley (4,285 m) is the highest and most imposing of the five volcanic

When the U.S. Government comes poking around the world’s major Internet companies asking for customer data, Verizon, AT&T, Apple, and Yahoo are not particularly interested in protecting the general public,

Permanent deletion by default after a predetermined amount of time is the gimmick that drove Snapchat users to upload more than 150 million photos a day in April. Problematically, Snapchat’s

Kaspersky Lab has signed an agreement with Qualcomm Technologies to protect smartphones and tablets.

Mother’s Day is a few days away and if you are a last minute shopper, you may be taking to the Internet to try and find that special gift for

The general public should be well aware at this point that identity theft is increasingly common and has calamitous effects that are far more serious than the half-baked Melissa McCarthy

“Snapchat is a new way to share moments with friends,” reads the opening sentence of the temporary photo-sharing application’s “about us” page. The description is just vague enough to technically

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell precipitously Tuesday after a group of pro-Syrian hackers took control of an Associated Press Twitter account and tweeted that U.S. President Barack Obama had been injured

Sure, it sounds like a great idea to check into your favorite bar or coffee shop on Facebook, Foursquare, Yelp, or any number of applications that let you make similar

Unfortunately, data theft and credit card fraud have become common worries. We wanted to find out from our Facebook users if they have ever been targeted, so we asked if

If we’re to believe all the headlines this week, then it appears that the one-time search giant Google has finally shipped off developer-models of Google Glass – their oft-mocked, thoroughly

BlackBerry’s preeminent Z10 smartphone (and other devices running the BlackBerry operating system beyond version 4.5 for that matter) has a feature built-into its messaging service called “Show What I’m Listening

Most people are now using several devices- PCs, smartphones and tablets that all have access to the internet. However, not all these devices are being equally protected by users; this

Everyone should know by now that there are, sadly, no members of deposed African royal families who want to share millions of dollars with you, no strings attached. What everyone

For most of us, April 1 is that one day each year we get to pull pranks and lie unashamedly to scare and confuse our friends and family — more

The good news for Apple fans is that the Cupertino technology giant issued a serious security upgrade yesterday by adding two-factor authentication to its users’ Apple ID accounts. The bad

Congratulations to our first stage winner in Kaspersky Lab’s 7 Volcanoes contest, Jenni from the United Kingdom! As a geography teacher she is constantly teaching her students about wonderful, exotic

With the increasing importance of online life, each of us faces the need to use more and more web services: social networks, e-mail, online banking and so on. Each service

Whenever you read a news headline about the arrest or conviction of a cybercriminal, you can guarantee that the bulk of the investigative work was done by the work of

Crime in the virtual world has long been a tough nut to crack for law enforcement agencies and the courts. Getting to the bottom of a cyberattack and then gathering

The Kaspersky 7 Volcanoes Expedition is in full swing – in three quick stages Olga Rumyantseva reached the top of Kilimanjaro, the highest volcano in Africa and its highest peak.