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While services like Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest are among the most public of online spaces, it may help to recall that a little education can go a long way towards teaching children how to behave and act more appropriately on these sites.

The two companies are teaming up to enhance the malware scans already done on new and current apps in the BlackBerry World store.

The smartphone maker and anti-virus firm are joining up to help provide BlackBerry users greater ease of mind over an increase in malware-laden mobile applications.

There is a booming industry that sells computer security products to consumers and businesses. But antivirus companies have a problem: Their software often can't prevent hackers from breaking into your computer and snooping around.

The cyber-threat landscape officially moved to the “post PC” era in 2012, according to the latest reports from security provider Trend Micro Inc., with cybercriminals targeting the Android OS, social media platforms, and the Mac OS X with new attacks.

This "titanium" security suite earned high marks in almost all of our malware detection tests, and it's got a nice user interface to boot.

The number of distinct Android malware specimens detected will reach one million this year, predicts Trend Micro in its annual security roundup report, noting that the surge in Android malware has grown at a faster clip in three years than was seen in PC-based malware in its first 14 years.

Trend Micro and Microsoft have partnered to integrate Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security solutions into the Windows Server 2012 Essentials dashboard, heralding a concerted SMB push over the coming year.

Researchers at Trend Micro have detailed the inner workings of an ongoing attack campaign that for years has quietly been targeting organizations and institutions tied to the South Korean government.

Security firm Trend Micro forecasts mobile viruses to rise significantly in 2013, and if history is any indication, they probably will. But the anticipated rise of mobile threats sets the stage for Trend Micro's continued push into mobile security and MDM markets.

Simplified account management for MSPs is at the core of a new platform integration agreement between Tech Data and Trend Micro.

PayPal and Wells Fargo topped the list of spoofed e-commerce sites used in phishing campaigns over the holidays.

SAN FRANCISCO — A breach of computers belonging to companies in Japan and India and to Tibetan activists has been linked to a former graduate student at a Chinese university — putting a face on the persistent espionage by Chinese hackers against foreign companies and groups.

We knew it wouldn’t be long before Pinterest, the image-based social network, would attract spammers. We spotted a new scam on the site today, luring users to click for coupons to popular stores.

Eva Chen does not commute. Rather, she performs extreme and unnatural acts in the art of showing up for work.

Everyone has a story to tell about safe and respectful use of technology, and those who tell it via video could win a $10,000 prize from Internet security company Trend Micro.

Google has teamed up with Facebook and Microsoft.

It’s a very rare occurrence. But even the worst of tech enemies can agree that phishing is bad.

For years, the business world has belonged to Windows. As recently as 2008, technology research firm Forrester Research was telling companies that Windows PCs were the only machines they needed to worry about. Macs were a non-issue—but not anymore.

For Apple fans juggling iPads, iPhones and Macbooks, Apple's iCloud, which launched Wednesday, offers the chance to simplify their digital lives by linking email, calendars, music and photos from multiple devices.

It was a subtle swap: a cheesy advertisement for a vacation timeshare site atop the home page of ESPN.com, in a spot that might have been claimed by a well-known brand like Dr Pepper.

U.S. authorities have charged six Estonians and a Russian with running an Internet scam that infected 4 million computers in 100 countries and redirected searches to advertising sites that generated at least $14 million for the suspects.

(CBS) - A video called "How to crack the iPad password in 5 seconds" is beginning to circulate on YouTube, which shows a man bypassing an iPad lock screen in seconds. No password. No hacking. So how did he do it?

A hacking group calling themselves “Team Swastika” posted what they claimed was over 10,000 comprised Facebook accounts to Pastebin, a service that serves as an online clipboard. However, according to statements from Facebook PR, these email and password combinations don’t actually represent live Facebook accounts. Instead, it appears that the hackers obtained the accounts using common phishing techniques, where users were tricked into giving away their personal information.

Trend Micro lays out the numbers – it costs a lot to recover when your computer or device is compromised, but many people just don't take security all that seriously.

Trend Micro researchers traced a SpyEye malware campaign originating from Russia and they estimated the cyber-criminal had stolen $3.2 million so far in 2011.

The prospect of consumers and employees physically losing information-packed mobile devices, or getting them hacked, is driving a red-hot sector of the tech industry: supplying mobile security.

A hacker known in the cybercriminal underground as “soldier” has stolen $3.2 million from major U.S. corporations in the past six months, according to researchers at anti-virus firm Trend Micro.

HP needs 6-8 weeks to ship additional TouchPads, according to a leaked email sent to customers. HP is prepping one last run for its defunct tablet.

Because traditional approaches to security don't port easily to public or private clouds, the nonprofit Cloud Security Alliance is working to help CIOs assess the security levels of various cloud providers.

Some 8 million web pages, published mostly by smaller merchants and professional firms, have been hijacked this summer and set up to usurp control of the PCs of unsuspecting site visitors.

Millions of Web pages are hacker landmines

I have been using an evaluation version of SafeSync for Business from Trend Micro for about a week now. My new laptop had been pestering me about data backup ever since I got it, and the opportunity presented itself with this evaluation to backup my data on the cloud. So, I went for it, with pleasing results.

In his latest security blog, Dave Asprey refers to Gartner's recent report - entitled `Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing: Does Cloud Security Belong?' - and notes the report's conclusion that most companies have cloud strategies, but few have cloud-centric strategies.

Google said Wednesday that hackers based in China gained access to hundreds of Gmail accounts, including some belonging to senior U.S. government officials and military personnel. The personal Gmail account of one Cabinet-level official was compromised, an official with knowledge of the breach said.

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton reportedly said, "because that's where the money is." Although he later denied saying that, the quote endures and is applied to both legitimate businesses and criminal enterprises, including the production and distribution of what we generally think of as computer viruses or malware.

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Trend Micro Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eva Chen said she hopes for the security-software maker’s revenue to increase by at least 10 percent over the longer term a year as demand grows from an expanding cloud computing.

Use news of earthquake, tsunami to solicit donations, trick users into downloading fake AV software, say experts

The niche market of parental control tools is finally growing up, and services offered by NetNanny, Symantec, and now Trend Micro aim to help parents guide and control their children's online presence.

ScanMail Suite for 64-bit Lotus Domino platforms uses a cloud-based database to detect threats, including those generated by URL-shortening services recently linked to the spread of malware.

Not only Internet access has been disrupted by government order in Egypt as protesters continue to clash with police in anti-government demonstrations. The Egyptian government's blackout extends to mobile phone operators, who have been ordered to suspend service in some areas.

Many small businesses are moving toward the Mac platform, and it's about more than simply having cool, sleek computers sitting on desks.

For many companies, off-the-shelf security software is the main defense against online threats. We set up a dummy laptop and visited sites known for doling out malware and viruses to see how the following programs performed.

Experts from leading security companies are saying that the Stuxnet worm is so sophisticated that it could have been a state-sponsored project and certainly not the work of a lone hacker.

Your child may be giving out too much personal information - learn what to watch for

At the Kiev offices of Innovative Marketing Ukraine, hundreds of programmers, translators and database engineers created a software product that made the company a world leader — an exceptional achievement in the impoverished former Soviet republic. But the way the company made its multimillion-dollar profits is nothing to celebrate, according to the criminal charges its owners now face in a district court in Chicago.

The social web is not just a model of our world, but an indelible and growing part of it. People correspond, they do business, and just like in the real world, they have addresses, and mailboxes. And in today’s pervasive and immersive online environment, it's almost impossible to be completely anonymous.

Trend Micro is expanding its "Worry-Free" promise of safer, smarter, simpler security through a subscription-based, hosted service solution designed to allow small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) to be always connected and protected. The services are part of both the Trend Micro Worry-Free family and its hosted security portfolio. The company said they are designed to help alleviate some of the cost, margin and product-reliability challenges channel partners face, particularly in challenging

Hosted-e-mail security firms are leading the SaaS market thanks to ease of implementation and other benefits. Still, these services are not without risks. In this Dark Reading report, we discuss how to determine what mix of in-house and hosted mail makes sense for your organization.

A year ago today, the Internet community witnessed a remarkable event: The unplugging of McColo, a Web hosting facility in Northern California that for a long time controlled a majority of the spam-sending operations on the planet. McColo's two main Internet providers abruptly yanked the cord after Security Fix presented them with scads of evidence collected by security researchers tying massive amounts of spam and other illicit activity to McColo's network.

Facebook is no longer alone in its troubles. Twitter is also becoming a target of phishers. The last few days have seen a slew of Twitter phishing attacks, possibly orchestrated in a chess-like multi-move plan that resulted in three sets of victims and, very likely, some seedy profits.

A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said.

The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm's authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared.

The Conficker worm, which did not bring the Internet to its knees or do much of anything else on April 1, continues to evolve in ways that have security experts scratching their heads about what may be the ultimate goals of the unknown bad guys behind the malware.

Estimates of the number of computers infected with the Conficker worm run from 1 million to 12 million. The malware's deadline is April 1, 2009, but no one really knows what will actually happen to the infected computers.

SAN FRANCISCO — "Hey Alice, look at the pics I took of us last weekend at the picnic. Bob"

Last week Google announced it was the victim of a hack in China that also hit at least two dozen other companies. McAfee soon identified the likely hole, a bug in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, and gave the hack a name: “Operation Aurora.” (See “Google China Hackers’ Unexpected Back Door.”)

A security researcher has discovered fake profiles for celebrities on LinkedIn that have links to malicious code, according to a blog posting on Trend Micro's site.

Digital photo frames were one of the best-selling consumer electronics products this holiday season, but some of them carried a nasty surprise - malicious software code that tried to hop onto personal computers when the frames were plugged in.

I LIVED in Taipei until I was 22. I graduated as a philosophy major. My grandfather was a politician and then founded a bank. My father was a philosophy major and then inherited the banking business. I think philosophy is a base that trains you how to think.

Hackers on Tuesday hijacked the Web site CheckFree.com, one of the largest online bill payment companies, redirecting an unknown number of visitors to a Web address that tried to install malicious software on visitors' computers, the company said today.

When cybercrime crusaders this week persuaded Internet service providers to disconnect a shadowy Web hosting operation called McColo, the impact was dramatic — an instant 40 percent drop in spam and other "badness'" across some e-mail networks, security experts say.

SAN FRANCISCO — The world's largest spam e-mail operator has been silenced.

Federal authorities say they've shut down HerbalKing, a global spam gang responsible for billions of spam messages promoting prescription drugs, "male-enhancement" pills and diet pills. On Tuesday, a federal court in Chicago, acting on a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission, ordered a halt to its operations, pending trial. A federal judge said HerbalKing engaged in spamming and deceptive marketing.

SAN FRANCISCO — The glass ceiling finally seems to be shattering.
Hillary Rodham Clinton nearly snagged the Democratic presidential nomination. Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has emerged as a major figure in world affairs.

Trend Micro announces Worry-Free Business Security product line for small to midsize businesses

Trend Micro Monday announced a line of desktop and server security products intended for small to midsize businesses.

Criminal attacks against major Web sites have grown so common that Internet users have no reliable way to know which sites are safe to visit, no matter how well known those destinations are, security experts say.

The number of malicious software programs vying to take up residence on unsuspecting computer users' hard drives has quadrupled in the past two years, according to security experts.

Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen has made no secret of her company's software as a service strategy. In the past year, the Japan-based company has launched a number of SAAS initiatives, pushing security into the cloud. Its latest acquisition, Identum, will add to the company's cloud computing portfolio.

Experts urge consumers to be wary when giving out credit card numbers, other info

A Russian gang allegedly hosting malicious software abruptly disappeared this week, according to Trend Micro.

Beginning in March, 102 employees of the IRS received phone calls, purportedly from the computer help desk, requesting their user names and suggesting they adopt a new password.

The greatest threat to global cyber security today, according to Internet Security Systems researcher Josh Corman, may be your mother’s computer.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Gap Inc. announced Friday that a laptop containing the personal information of about 800,000 job applicants was stolen from the offices of one of its vendors that manages data for the company.

The San Francisco-based retailer said it has begun notifying on Thursday those applicants whose Social Security numbers were included in the information on the laptop.

Aug 9 Computer security software maker Trend Micro Inc. (4704.T) posted a 32 percent rise in half-year operating profit on Thursday as sales grew in the United States, and it forecast continued growth ahead.

The SMB network security market is heating up. In-Stat estimates that the worldwide security appliance market is poised for steady, if slowing, growth, reaching over $5.5 billion by 2011. A large part of this growth is sure to be driven small businesses, all of which need protection. Forrester estimates that 39% of small businesses will "significantly upgrade their security environment" and 44% will "significantly upgrade their disaster recovery capabilities" this year.