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A Blast from the Past. Part I – the Pack-shot Odyssey.
Kaspersky Lab has just turned 14 years old. On June 26, 1997, after eight years of perfecting our technology with my colleagues, we decided it was ready to go to the market, and so we registered a...
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A Blast from the Past. Part II – the AV Artefact.
And here we are, with the second in the series of nostalgic tales from the history of the company. As promised, in this installment we are taking you on a journey back to the beginning of the 90s - to...
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A Blast from the Past. Part III – Back to the Future – a Virus Remake.
Once – ten years ago – in the not-so-far-away city of Prague, the British antivirus magazine Virus Bulletin held its annual conference. In early 2001 the event was going through all the usual planning...
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A Blast from the Past. Part IV – The Very First International Partner...
Here we are with the fourth installment of sentimental stories covering the history of our company. Each time I write a post of this series what never ceases to amaze me is the journey we’ve made from...
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KL: 15 Years Old – How Time’s Flown!
Kaspersky Lab is 15! Believe me – that’s a long time. That many years in the IT industry is a whole epoch, no – several epochs. In 1997 when the company was founded our main enemy was...
View ArticleK(E)L(vis) has left the building.
Ladies and gentlemen! I’ve got some very good news! Well, at least, for some – particularly KL employees… Our decade and a half of rented-office-space hopping has officially come to an end. Yep, we’ve...
View Article10 years since the first smartphone malware – to the day.
On June 15, 2004, at precisely 19:17 Moscow time something happened that started a new era in computer security. We discovered the first malware created for smartphones. It was Cabir, which was...
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Massachusetts snow woe, and a US-AV decade of champions.
I’ve been in the USA countless times. Usually it’s just for short stays with a few different places to visit, but there’s normally plenty of interesting tales to tell afterwards. Not this time! This...
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Yukatan: You can tan, while conferencing.
On the news of late I’ve been seeing an awful lot of reports about very woeful wintery weather all around the world. In Moscow they’ve had the heaviest snowfall in something like centuries, and...
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Happy Birthday to Us – 20 Years Old – to the Day!
Whoosh! What was that? That, boys and girls, was the history of cybersecurity passing by! 28 years ago, somewhere around the fall of 1989, my Olivetti M24 was attacked by a virus. That fateful event...
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Then and Now. 20 Years In-between – All Uphill.
20 years in business – is that a long time, or no time at all? Or how about 25 years of continuous development of new technologies and products (including the five years pre-KL)? To answer that...
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Byblos – the oldest city in the world. Probyblos.
Hi folks! Herewith, I continue my historical-archeological dispatches from what is today known as Lebanon. Specifically – from Byblos, one of the oldest cities in the world. Quite how old no one can...
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If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been asked this question in 30 years…
Hi folks! Can you guess what question I’m asked most of all during interviews and press conferences? It started being asked back in the 1990s, quickly becoming the feared question that used to make me...
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Welcome to the Commander Islands!
We’ve already had a few ‘B-sides’ – Aniva and Tyuleny – on our Kurils adventure. Now it was time for a bonus track – a previously unreleased rarity, as it were: the Commander Islands! Never heard of...
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ILOVEYOU – 20 years ago – to the day!
Ancient cybersecurity folks with more than 20 years’ experience in the industry will of course remember the infamous ILOVEYOU Love Letter email worm from the early 2000s. What they may not recall is...
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Cyber-yesteryear – pt. 1: 1989-1991.
Having written a post recently about our forever topping the Top-3 in independent testing, I got a bit nostalgic for the past. Then, by coincidence, there was the 20th anniversary of the ILOVEYOU virus...
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Cyber-yesteryear – pt. 2: 1991-1992.
Herewith, I continue my tales from the cyber-old-school side. You’ve already had the first installment – about when I caught my very first fish virus, about our first antivirus utility, and about when...
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Cyber-yesteryear – pt. 3: 1992-199x.
Just in case you missed the first two, this is the third episode of my cyber-yesteryear chronicles. Since I’m in lockdown like most folks, I have more time on my hands to be able to have a leisurely...
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Cyber-yesteryear – pt. 4: CeBIT.
Finally, summer’s arrived. Took it’s time! But I’m not sure it’s the blessing it normally is, since we’re all still sat at home working remotely. Sure, there have been ‘easings’ here and there around...
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Cyber-yesteryear – pt. 5: 1996 (game-changer year).
Herewith, more tales from back in the day about how our company went from humble beginnings to what we are today. And this cyber-yesteryear series – it’s all thanks to… lockdown! I’d have never found...
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