All Hail the King: Kaspersky Succeeds in Rising Suit

Pacific Epoch reports:
Chinese anti-virus software company Rising was found on December 19 to have engaged in unfair competition with its Russian competitor Kaspersky, reports Sohu. Tianjin No.1 Intermediate People’s Court ordered Rising to pay RMB451,000 in compensation to Kaspersky, post a public apology for a week, as well as delete all slanderous posts about Kaspersky, [...]

Waiting for Zbot: Online Banking Grows in China

People’s Daily reports:
About one-third of both individual and corporate banking clients in China’s 10 major cities used online services this year, an increase of 4.2 and 1.7 percent from 2006, the China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA) report said.
Security was a key concern:
The report said that over half of the individual online banking customers surveyed saw [...]

Rising Signs Security Promotion With Taobao

Shanghai Daily reports:
CHINA’S No. 1 anti-virus software company has teamed up with the country’s biggest online auction Website to provide about 40 million online traders a more reliable and secure platform, the companies said yesterday.
…Taobao’s users can download and use Rising’s 2008 beta anti-virus software for free for three months. Taobao’s Wangwang accounts have been [...]

A Hollywood Ending to the Great Panda Virus Caper

The Caper
In January of 2007 Kaspersky Labs received reports of a new and nasty virus in China that changed icons into pandas and stole IDs and passwords for online games and the QQ IM service. The virus was so terrible that the Shanghai Information Technology Service Center was driven to issue their first-ever five [...]

Mobile Malware is to Smartphones as Bird Flu is to People. Discuss.

Since bird flu first infected humans in Hong Kong in 1997, the world has nervously waited to see what will come of it. The hope is that it will never reach the scale of the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19 that killed 20 to 40 million people.
The nomenclature of virology has long been adopted [...]