Brian Donohue

The networking giant D-Link has acknowledged and committed to fixing a very serious backdoor vulnerability in a number of its older routers. The vulnerability was uncovered by security researcher Craig

The Wi-Fi alliance, an almost absurdly large consortium of communications, technology, and manufacturing companies, has launched an initiative aiming to strengthen the security and reliability public wireless hotspots. Known as

Online behavior tracking by Web advertisement agencies attempting to better target consumers with products and other ads is a pervasive, persistent, and contentious practice on the Internet. The ad firms

It is well established that the rapid proliferation of mobile devices has presented a number of unique security concerns – especially given the increasingly blurry line separating personal devices and

Go ahead and add toilets to the increasingly long list of hackable consumer devices we’ve been compiling here on the Kaspersky Daily. In fact, one of the researchers at this

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue rounds up the latest security news from the month of September 2013. [audio https://kasperskydaily.com/global/files/2013/09/podcast_september_Brian.mp3] Download podcast for offline listening  

Passwords, the de facto authenticators, represent a serious security weakness for a number of reasons, chief among those is that humans quite simply tend to create bad passwords in order

That wireless router in your living room is essentially the hub for your entire home network. Nearly all of your devices are going to route through it and into you

Samsung, maker of handsets and all devices tech-related, has created a secure Android environment called Knox, which aims to resolve the laundry list of security problems facing IT teams as

Protecting your home network is as daunting a task as you make it. If your home network consists of a wireless router and a laptop, then it’s pretty easy to

If you’re reading the Kaspersky Daily with any degree of regularity than you likely already know that it is very possible to hack the modern automobile. In fact, I wrote

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue explains two-factor authentication Download podcast for offline listening

Go ahead and add insulin pumps and pacemakers to the ever-expanding list of computer-like-devices that contain bugs and are therefore vulnerable to exploit. That’s right, that little metal thing inside

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue explains the latest on mobile hacks on Blackhat Download podcast for offline listening

Las Vegas – On the last day of July and the first day of August, a Roman empire-themed hotel and casino in the the Mojave Desert played host to what

Google provides some pretty strong security controls like two-factor authentication in order to prevent hackers from hijacking your account and other controls that allow you to recover your account in

Whether or not it is possible to hack a car depends almost entirely on the kind of car you drive. I, for example, drive a 1998 Honda Accord, and I’m

Have you ever wondered what a hacked computer, email address, or other online account is even worth? Sure, it seems pretty obvious that there’d be some serious value in a

In late 2011, it emerged that Chinese hackers had thoroughly compromised the United States Chamber of Commerce, perforating the lobbying-group’s networks with a devastating chain of backdoors. Chamber officials admitted

There’s been something of an uneasy consensus among experts that Apple’s iOS platform is the most secure option among mobile operating systems almost exclusively because of the closed-off nature of

APT stands for advanced persistent threat. It became famous following a New York Times exposé detailing a month’s long attack campaign in which a Chinese military unit now known as