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Jeffrey Esposito

'Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.' ~ The Lorax

97 articles

  • #advice

Hospital learns the hard way why you don’t pay ransomware crooks

When you are sick, you head to the doctor. However, when your computer is suffering from an infection, you probably shouldn’t ask for your doctor’s advice. At Kaspersky Lab, we

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • May 26, 2016

  • .crypt

How educated are we on ransomware?

Unlike previous malware trends that have varying purposes, ransomware’s is quite simple: Get Money. With a goal like that spurring on malicious developers, it’s no wonder ransomware’s star is on

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • May 24, 2016

  • News

Use OKCupid? Change your password

I think we can all agree that dating is (was in the case of married folks) hard. Opening yourself up to someone else just leaves you vulnerable. In today’s connected

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • May 19, 2016

  • .crypt

Update: CryptXXX solved again

At the tail end of last month, we announced that our researchers had developed a decryption tool to beat CryptXXX ransomware and help the victims get their files back for

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • May 13, 2016

  • app security

Election season brings political hijinks

In the United States, the political season is heating up as the country is prepping for their presidential election for the successor to Barack Obama. The whole process of political

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • May 12, 2016

  • #advice

Expert tips to avoid falling victim to ransomware

Let’s face it, you can’t tune into the news without hearing something about ransomware. The scourge of the Internet has seen its profile raise over the past few months as

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • May 3, 2016

  • hack

Hacked social networks lead to nightmare draft for Laremy Tunsil

Heading into the NFL Draft, Laremy Tunsil was considered by many to be the top player in the draft and would be one of the first players selected. Unfortunately for

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • April 29, 2016

  • Patya Ransomware

Ransomware bug leads to Petya decryptor

Typically we don’t cheer bugs. However, today we’ll make an exception. You see a bug or flaw in the code of Petya ransomware has allowed a developer to create a

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • April 11, 2016

  • Bat Cave

Great Scott! Batcave hacked?

No matter how old you are, it’s most likely you know all about stately Wayne Manor and its billionaire owner, Bruce Wayne. If you don’t you probably have heard of

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • March 31, 2016

  • Parenting

New threats for raising digital kids

When I was in middle school a friend of mine got a computer, soon after that he got this cool program called AOL and it instantly made his house the

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • March 22, 2016

  • breach

Changing the security mindset for the IoT

When a product is built, the manufacturer typically has a lifecycle in mind in regards to how long a consumer will ideally use the device. For example smartphones are something

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • March 17, 2016

  • GReAT

Do we really need to focus on transportation security?

During the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco, Kurt Baumgartner, Principal Security Researcher, Global Research & Analysis Team, discussed the need for the transportation industry to put some focus onto

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • March 10, 2016

  • KIS for Mac

Wait, my Mac can be infected?

Please stop me if you have heard this before: ‘I don’t need a security solution for my Mac. They are super-secure and are completely immune to viruses.’ Do you believe

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • March 8, 2016

  • #advice

Is your social media profile a target?

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, I sat in on a panel that raised an interesting question in the insecure big data world that we live in. Ian Amit

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • March 4, 2016

  • connected devices

Parenting 2.0: becoming a true digital role model

During the RSA Conference in San Francisco Stephen Balkam, Founder and CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute gave a presentation focused on the Risks, Harms and Rewards of our

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • March 2, 2016

  • phishing

Snapchat caught in phishing campaign

We talk a lot about phishing and how dangerous it is. At times we feel like we may talk about it too much to where people simply say, “yeah, yeah.

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • February 29, 2016

  • Dark Web

Check your Spotify password

Do you stream music on Spotify at home or work? Chances are that you are one of the millions of users to the popular online service. So you should read

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • February 19, 2016

  • #advice

Protecting yourself from adware with Kaspersky Internet Security 2016

Sometimes when installing freeware, users rush and often wind up installing “extra” features that can include adware, unnecessary extensions and browser toolbars. It’s quite understandable as anyone can miss one

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • February 19, 2016

  • Cybersecurity

Top 10 Tweets from the SAS 2016

The SAS has come and gone. A lot of great knowledge was dropped during the conference including insights on Poseidon, Adwind and Metel. As we come back to reality, we

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • February 12, 2016

  • Adwind

Chatting Adwind with Vitaly Kamluk

Mike Mimoso of Threatpost sat down with Vitaly Kamluk of our Global Research and Analysis Team during the Security Analyst Summit 2016 to discuss the latest discovery of the cross-platform

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • February 10, 2016

  • APT

#TheSAS2016 Comics: Banking APTs

At the SAS 2016, Kaspersky Lab’s GReAT team unveiled how dozens of banks lost millions of dollars via APT tools. We know that the blogs were a tad long so

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • February 8, 2016

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