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pandasecurity.com is the company blog at pandasecurity.com, writing about security. Since 2009, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Panda Security's articles as sources for malware statistics, such as Android versus iOS infection rates, and for explainers on cyberstalking, malware history and security guides.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /en/mediacenter/mobile-security/android-more-infected-than-ios/4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-11-16
What Hacker News says?
Well, there's still this: https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security... . (2019) 50 times LESS likely to be infected with malware sounds like good walled-garden gatekeeping to me, even if it's not perfect...
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on “Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers”Submitted TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021) as a story · 465 points
HN discussionUnsecured Elasticsearch servers have been implicated in multiple breaches in recent months [1][2]. Since this post is an "In depth guide to running Elasticsearch in production,” it should prominently include information related to security and configuration. With tools like these where there is a learning curve for new users, security can end up treated as an afterthought, leading to these kinds of breaches. 1. http…
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on “Guide to running Elasticsearch in production”Submitted More Dangerous Vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Plus Apple has a history of being incompetent and slow on this Have they, really? Just because you find this instance here and there of such a story where they were, doesn't mean they have a history of being incompetent and slow on this (the same way someone who hit 99% of their three-pointers doesn't have a history of being an awful shooter). That's how they fare long term: https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediac…
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on “Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet”Submitted Update gone wrong. Panda antivirus removing system files. Do not reboot as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Wait what?? Are you serious? Please tell me you are not serious Man are you in an Apple PR bubble if you believe that, iOS most certainly has been impacted by viruses, malware and vulnerabilities Well, since you're outside the PR bubble, I'll be eagerly awaiting for your examples of viruses in iOS devices. I'll be patient. Spyware you'll find a few (they exist in any system when you can't trust the developer 100%…
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on “Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs”Submitted How to back up and restore supervised iOS devices without losing any data as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>* It is also revisionist history to say "Apple was never about tinkerers and customizations", Apple was born out of the "tinkers" market, and did infact become popular pre-iphone days due to this hacker mentality, to deny this is to deny actual history* I was there in the pre-iPhone days, and Apple was never about the "hacker mentality". In the early days (and up to now) it was all about "computers for the rest of…
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on “Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs”Submitted The Pirates Are Back as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> You used to think otherwise. You claimed that the package sent to the device was signed by the developer. False. If I claimed that, you’d be able to quote me. > … (or China) works as a MITM who can modify the package however they like Seems like this is total bullshit. Do you have any evidence that China can modify the packages? > Are you suggesting that China gets to re-sign software going to devices either a) in…
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on “Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1”Submitted Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Suffer an Outage – Panda Security as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>> Doesn’t seem remotely true - here’s just one recent example: > Your example is a vulnerability in an app that can be exploited to access that app's data. It is not a malware app, and there is no evidence that any users had malware that attacked that… It doesn’t matter. Your claim: “Google's and Amazon's app stores are not open source but built for an open source platform, together have far more users than the App…
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on “Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1”Submitted An issue with the signature file in Panda Cloud Office Protection and Retail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDid you read the links you provided? The last article explicitly mentions that most of the malware needs iPhone to be jailbroken or the app to be installed outside of the App Store, which kind of proves my point. The research by Panda Security also showed that the ratio of malware on Android compared to iPhone is 50 to 1. https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security...
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on “Google fined €100M by Italian antitrust over Google Play abuse of dominance”Indeed! iMessage should get an honorable mention. Having lived outside of the US for a few years, sometimes I forget it exists, because here even people who both have iPhones use WhatsApp. iMessage deserves an honorable mention, but with some caveats. As I recall and quickly Googled: There have been some concerns with their security: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/imessage_encr... https://www.pandase…
Comment linking /mediacenter/technology/need-know-imessage-security-flaw/
on “Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger”Back in the days a lot of thought and ingenuity was put into making these viruses. For instance, the Friday 13th [1][2][3] virus: * was only 419 bytes long * infected both .COM and .EXE, increasing the size of the former by only 1813 bytes * on infection, became memory resident (using only 2kb of memory) * hooked itself into interrupt processing and other low level DOS services to, for instance, suppress the printin…
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on “The Malware Museum”> This is FUD. Where is the evidence that letting developers choose how to process payments leads to rampant fraud? Here, for one: https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security... . And in the general open web, for another, where online fraud is a multi-billion business...
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on “Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing”> Apple's walled gardens don't solve the maleware problem. It reduces it to the point of being a non-problem. > People get code Apple doesn't approve of onto their platforms all the time. Only if they put it there themselves. 99.99% of those "Apple viruses" one hears are just trojans. And if you stick to the Mac App Store and trusted sources (Adobe, MS, etc), you get close to zero malware, with the ocassional "misse…
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on “Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control”from : https://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/panda-security/how... "Cyberstalking is the act of using the Internet to systematically and repeatedly harass, threaten or intimidate someone. This can be done through email, social media, chat rooms, instant messaging or other online mediums." "Cyberstalking is a federal offense and many states have cyberstalking laws. Cyberstalking falls under anti-stalking, slander…
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on “Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias”> Apple's malware track record in the mobile space is worse than its peers. You'll have to back that up with a meaningful citation because all the evidence I've seen is to the contrary. Here, I'll offer one example: > Android devices 50 times more infected with malware compared to iOS. https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security...
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on “Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS”> Here on HN there's at least one horror story a month about issues someone had with Apple With 2 million programmers, a marketplace of 100billion, and millions of apps, "one horror story a month" (i.e. "somebody was annoyed on the internet and posted about it") sounds like a huge success story. And many of these are non-stories, or stories of the kind "Me, one of 1.5000.000 programmers on iOS/macOS stores, had an a…
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on “Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions?”Because they're OK with things like this: https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security...
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on “To upgrade the SSD in a Mac Pro, you need a second Mac computer”A bit old but, https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/android-more-in... One might argue that Android is targeted more than iPhone because of its larger userbase which certainly may contribute to it, but then MacOS which has a fraction of the userbase is more targeted than iOS - that makes the case that sideloading or lax app store reviews really are at least partly to blame. Given much of the malware seems to…
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on “Swift's native Clocks are inefficient”"The malware, which FireEye has dubbed Triton, is only the third type of computer virus discovered to date that is capable of disrupting industrial processes." This sounds incorrect ... Wasn't there (at least): 1) Stuxnet (2010) 2) Shamoon (2012) 3) HAVEX (2013) 4) BlackEnergy (2015) 5) Industroyer (CrashOveride) (2016) 6) Triton (??) Naming it Triton is unfortunate since there has been a malware from 2004 with the…
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on “Hackers invade safety system, halt plant operations in ‘watershed’ cyberattack”> The open web does not have the expectation of moderation. Apple's store does, and they're still failing even if they're not as bad as a mostly unchecked place. Many times not as bad... https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security...
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on “Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams”Absolutely true. And absolutely the cause of: > Android devices are nearly fifty times more likely to be infected by malware than Apple devices, revealed Nokia’s latest threat intelligence report. According to the whitepaper, Android devices were responsible for 47.15% of the observed malware infections, Windows/ PCs for 35.82%, IoT for 16.17% and iPhones for less than 1%. We’ve compiled a list top three reasons tha…
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on “When Apple takes the European Commission for fools: An initial overview”Apple should do something like this. They are in fact the only major tech company not to have a bounty program[1]. That, combined with the fact that they have just recorded the single largest quarterly profit for any corporation ever in history[2] makes it pretty embarrassing to see that it would cost so little yet they still haven't done it. [1] http://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/security/twitter-bo... [2] ht…
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on “Security Reward Programs: Year in Review, Year in Preview”Malware just need a C2 for a day or two and then they mve along to another. The days of clinging on to one source are long gone. Please see http://www.pandasecurity.com/usa/homeusers/media/press-relea...
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on “Twitter-based Botnet Command Channel”
