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Behind the scenes with the head of Kaspersky’s GReAT

SecureList

In 2010, he became Director of our Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT). Unfortunately, none of the antivirus products that were available back then were actually able to clean the virus, so the teachers who knew I had some experience with computers asked me if I could write an antivirus for it.

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New Cyberthreats for 2021

Adam Levin

A deepfake is a combination of Artificial Intelligence “deep learning” and that watchword of the 2010s: “fake.”. Any digital media asset created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence qualifies. A deepfake can be a digital image, video, or audio file. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Sophos delivers endpoint protection harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) as well as firewalls and network and cloud security products. This includes antivirus, identity protection, SIEM (where Gartner names it a Leader), endpoint protection (graded a Visionary by Gartner) and secure web gateways (Gartner Challenger).