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This post is comprised of two topics: a Trojan Opfake.a, which made a lot of buzz earlier this months and analyzing mobile malware at home. The latter is quite possible, but requires protective measures.

With the release of iOS 8, Apple claims it can’t access the personal data on your iPhones and iPads and it can’t give it to authorities. But it seems there’s a catch.

Cyber-resilience is the ability to sustain damage, but ultimately succeed. In order to be resilient, businesses need to have a plan. One organization is dealing with attacks today that another will deal with tomorrow. There are ways businesses can help each other become cyber-resilient.

You can manually set up Safe Money with ease even if your bank or payment system is not included in our database.

A new poll shows Americans care overwhelmingly about digital privacy.

The healthcare and financial services industries are among those especially reluctant to implement newer technologies, security included, and believe they have a good reason for that.

A number of popular Android applications are putting sensitive user data at risk of exposure because the app developers are not fully implementing encryption.

The final month of summer wasn’t full of cybercriminal stories, but law enforcement groups around the world still found and punished some evildoers.

It’s very difficult to wean your kids from social networks and online gaming. The Parental Control component of Kaspersky Internet Security can make things much easier by shutting down the computer or blocking access to the Internet when you deem it necessary.

It’s been years since we’ve last heard of any large worm epidemics. Does it really mean that malware epidemics have gone away for good?

Like it or not, your children are going to be on the web. Kaspersky’s award-winning parental controls let you monitor their activity and block them from any sites that you choose.

Kaspersky Lab’s recent survey surprisingly found that e-commerce, online retailers and financial service providers are not just the biggest sources of stolen financial data, but also feel just a bit too lax about security. However, this has some severe implications.

New mobile and wearable devices offer users a robust set of innovative features and utilities but they often face the same traditional threats as old fashioned computers.

Having your business bank account hijacked by cybercriminals could bankrupt your company, but that type of breach isn’t really what law enforcement cares about. They are concerned with only one thing: how well you protect certain information.

Tor is an online browsing portal that keeps your web activity completely anonymous.

A curious story about a cyber-investigation of fraudulent activities, which our GERT group had recently conducted on behalf of one of the company’s clients. The attackers were quite thoughtful, but not good enough.

A survey reveals the motivations behind hacker attacks, showing that they are not afraid of consequences.

A large number of logins and passwords to accounts in several free email services – Mail.ru, Yandex and Gmail.com – had been leaked. Once again, passwords prove to provide insufficient protection. What does it mean for businesses?

A software update can be costly if your computer does it when connected to the Internet over cellular. Here is how to avoid it.

On September 9th, Apple showed some new devices and its own payment system, which utilizes an NFC chip, Touch ID sensor and Passbook app. So we had a try to find out how it works, what it gives us and how well this system is protected.

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.