Showing posts with label Kaspersky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kaspersky. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

"Green Hornet" actor appointed Kaspersky Lab's new Brand Ambassador


Manila, Philippines - Kaspersky Lab, a leading secure content and threat management solutions developer, is proud to announce the appointment of creative genius Jay Chou as its latest brand ambassador for the Asia Pacific, as part of the unique branding strategies of Kaspersky Lab to protect more than 300 million users globally.

Chou hit the international market with the remake of the Green Hornet, where he portrayed the character of Kato (formerly played by Bruce Lee in the TV series).

The Taiwanese actor is also a film director, singer-songwriter, music and film producer, a one-man entertainment juggernaut, who effortlessly combines Chinese and Western music styles in an eclectic mix of R&B, rock, pop and ethnic music. He is also gifted with a personality that wins fans and friends globally.

With his versatility as an artist, Chou earned the respect of millions of Asian and Western artists and fans.

His popularity has also earned him the spot of becoming the Asia Pacific Brand Ambassador for Kaspersky Lab.

Kaspersky Lab's award-winning products, services and technologies have exceptionally high and accurate malware detection rates, meeting Jay Chou's needs as an individual user and as a corporate network owner with important personal and corporate information to keep safe.

Under this partnership, Chou will work with Kaspersky Lab to launch new releases of products for home users and corporate users.

“Jay Chou is an amazing multi-talented entertainer and entrepreneur with a uniqueness, innovativeness and creativity that is an ideal match for Kaspersky Lab. As an individual and corporate user of our products who has a great interest in technology, Kaspersky and Jay Chou is an ideal match. We are excited about this partnership and look forward to much great collaborations with Jay,” said Kaspersky Lab Asia Pacific Managing Director Harry Cheung.

Cheung said that the brand works towards achieving ever higher levels of security and threat management for a safer digital environment and is constantly on the lookout for ambassadors who can take the important message of security to a wider audience.

“Kaspersky has been experiencing tremendous growth over the past few years due to our market leading products and innovative campaigns. We are the only security brand working with high profile brand ambassadors who are able to embody the values and benefits of using our products,” Cheung said.

Chou, for his part, said that like the core values upheld by Kaspersky Lab, he also values quality of service and satisfaction of audiences. He understands that protecting one’s investments from a harsh digital crime is paramount and that all Internet users must also be able to put in place all the necessary precautions.

"I trust Kaspersky Lab fully as updates are speedy and constant. There is no downtime, no security breaches and malware gets dealt with quickly and efficiently. I have the peace of mind of the best protection. Kaspersky is my only choice for IT security protection'' Jay Chou said.

source: mb.com.ph

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Kaspersky finds largest attack on Mac OS by malware Flashback/Flashfake

Manila, Philippines - Kaspersky Lab, a leading secure content and threat management solutions developer, recently analyzed the Flashfake botnet and discovered a massive number of infected computers worldwide, most likely running Mac OS X. The botnet is being distributed via infected websites as a Java applet that pretends to be an update for the Adobe Flash Player.

About 670,000 computers worldwide, 98 percent of them running Mac OS X, were infected by Flashfake. Kaspersky Lab attests that this is the largest Mac-based infection to date, with the largest number of victims targeting developed countries. The United States had the most infected computers (300,917) followed by Canada (94,625), the United Kingdom (47,109) and Australia (41,600).

Infections also found in France (7,891), Italy (6,585), Mexico (5,747), Spain (4,304), Germany (4,021), Japan (3,864) and Philippines is among the countries that contribute the average count of 1- 2,547 said Kaspersky Lab security expert, Igor Soumenkov in his blog.

Security expert Alexander Gostev also stated in his blog that they were able to reverse-engineer the Flashfake malware that enabled them to successfully analyze the communications between infected computers and the command and control (C&C) servers of Flashfake.

“After intercepting one of the domain names used by the Flashback/Flashfake Mac Trojan and setting up a special sinkhole server last Friday, April 6, we managed to gather stats on the scale and geographic distribution of the related botnet. We continued to intercept domain names after setting up the sinkhole server and we are currently still monitoring how big the botnet is. We have recorded a total of 670,000 unique bots. Over the weekend of April 7 to 8, we saw a significant fall in the number of connected bots,” added Gostev.

Kaspersky Lab is also directing users to visit the website www.flashbackcheck.com, specifically made to determine if a computer is infected with the malware using a tool that looks into the device’s universal unique identifier (UUID). It also has instructions on how remove the malware if it is found.

source: mb.com.ph