Cybersecurity Expert

I was fortunate enough to catch up with the one and only Eugene Kaspersky this week. Eugene is one of the world's leading experts in the information security field, co-founder and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, the international information security software vendor and a technology leader in malware protection. (malware: malicious software such as trojans, viruses, keyloggers) protection. It was a real privilege and honour to chat with the Moscow based Security Guru about the latest malware patterns, trends and threats being monitored by Kaspersky Lab. I do not use the term “Security Guru” lightly either, Eugene is a graduate of the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science and has conducted scientific research in these areas before entering the antivirus industry (before it was an industry) in 1991. This was after his interest in viruses was sparked when his own system was infected by the Cascade virus in 1989. I remember my Commodore Amiga being infected by a...

As the effects of the “global credit crunch” starts to take hold in the UK, it is evident to me that UK focused “Cyber Crime” will sharply increase as a result. Over the past ten years the UK economy has been in a honey-moon period, and doing relatively well, with the GDP growth out pacing the rest of EU. The good and steady economic environment has resulted in low unemployment figures for much of the last decade. You really have to go back to the late 1990’s since the last major loll in the UK economy. In comparison, mass market cyber crime for financial gain hardily existed ten years ago, and certainly was not on the radar during the last major recession in 1990’s. Over the last decade Internet access and usage for the average UK person has radically changed, thanks to the explosion of broadband, which in turn has resulted in providing cyber crime opportunities around every corner. Within the Security Industry it is commonly known hackers have been increasinly focusing their effo...