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Thinking of security over Apple’s live stream bummer

The biggest concern about Apple Pay is that one’s iCloud account now controls not only private photos, app data, and messages, but also money. You lose your password – you lose everything and as the celebrity hack showed us, there is no need to hack Apple’s servers. Social engineering, phishing, trojans – all cybercriminal tools will now be targeted at people’s electronic wallets.

Steady rolling back to the Stone Age

There have long been rumors in the InfoSec community that in the wake of recent revelations, foreign institutions embraced old-school means of keeping their secrets safe. Namely, once again embracing the typewriter. This is actually like betting on horse carriages at the dawn of the auto industry – sort of denying the future.

What is Malvertising?

Malvertising is an ambiguous term referring to malicious online advertisements; some cause malware infection while others track user behavior.

On viruses for Palms, ecosystems and continuity

A while ago we “celebrated” 10 years since the first smartphone malware emerged. While we made the first Symbian antivirus in 2004, it doesn’t mean that we had no mobile security products before that. It was hard to unearth and boot an antique handheld from early 2000s, and even harder to find, install and launch our old software. Yes, it’s long obsolete, but there’s a reason for all these efforts. Read about it in our new blog post.