As smartphones explode in popularity, ne’er do wells, virtual footpads and mobile garrotters continue to try and find ways to pickpocket your phone and purloin your precious data.
Eugene Kaspersky was recently frothing excitedly about Android’s prospects (he thinks they’re going to bag an 80% market share) so it’s no surprise to see his company manoeuvring for a slice of the Android security market.
With a set of results sure set to send Apple fanboys howling at the Moon in disbelief, a recent study claims that Macs are far more insecure than Windows PCs, due partly to the attitude of its users and the relative obscurity of the platform.
An Eset survey conducted last year showed that when Apple users fell for phishing crime they tended to lose a load more dosh than your average Windows PC user, mainly because the majority of cyber crime victims are targeted via social engineering attacks rather than more traditional viruses (see graphic below).
Many users of Avast anti-virus software appear to have had problems with their computers on December 2 and 3, not because of undetected viruses, but because an update to the Avast virus database caused Windows programs and system files to be flagged as viruses and quarantined or deleted.
The culprit is virus database update # 091203-0.
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