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Attacks on Gizmodo's Brazilian site and the website of an unnamed logistics firm hosted by the same ISP have prompted Trend Micro to investigate whether “a vulnerability was used in order to penetrate the web servers,” according to a company blog post.

While law enforcement won an important battle against cyber crime by taking down the Gameover Zeus botnet and hampering the threat of CryptoLocker malware, that hasn't stopped persistent and innovative criminals from producing variants on file-encryption malware like the recently detected Cryptoblocker, according to Trend Micro.

Trend Micro’s one-time password (OTP)-based two-factor authentication bypass report (PDF) is hardly news to those in the tech world, but it is well-packaged and even branded with a weird name - Operation Emmental (also known as Swiss cheese) - how media-ready!

Cloud-based antivirus vendor Webroot is investing in joint marketing and seminars, white papers, training and support to grow its base of resellers in North America and attract managed service providers with a newly released console.

What the Goodwill breach illustrates -- and why old hacker tricks continue to work -- is the inadequacy of payment system standards. "Almost all major retail and credit card breaches occurred where a vendor or merchant was actually in PCI-DSS compliance," said Vijay Basani, CEO of EiQ Networks. "Regulations in general incentivize merchants to do just enough to pass a security audit."

The CAN SPAM Act is now 11 years old and as good as it has been, the Act needs to be updated to address the realities of modern marketing.

BlackBerry has always touted its mobile devices as secure. But now it plans to make them “more secure” by acquiring a German company that specializes in voice encryption.

Malware tied to the Operation Emmental attacks that have plagued bank customers in Switzerland and three other nations first surfaced in 2013. But variants of the malicious code only recently gained the ability to bypass SMS-based two-factor authentication systems, says security vendor Trend Micro.

When you go online to bank, you probably assume the site – along with your transaction – is secure. However, a new report shows that your banking experience could be more vulnerable than you think.

The threat report from Japanese security company Trend Micro was blunt. Two-factor authentication was successfully compromised by criminals and the victims were customers of 34 different financial institutions in Japan, Switzerland, Austria and Sweden.