In whom do you place your trust?

Kaspersky Lab’s global research & analysis team principal security researcher, Vitaly Kamluk, ­summarises 2014 in one phrase — “The Year of Recovering Lost Trust.”

This is not surprisingly, as much of what the company has seen in its crystal balls is connected to the fallout from Edward Snowden’s revelation that the United States is building a clandestine surveillance program for spying.