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New Report Finds Wide Variety of Businesses Are Vulnerable

A gang of Russian hackers have stolen 1.2 billion usernames and passwords, according to cybersecurity firm Hold Security. Amir Mizroch discusses what this means for Internet users.

Chinese authorities reportedly have warned Microsoft not to interfere with its investigation of allegations the company is engaging in anti-trust sales activities for its Windows and Office products in China. Microsoft has promised to comply.

Restaurant chain P.F. Chang China Bistro released details Monday about a data breach discovered in June where customer data may have been compromised and stolen from 33 restaurants in the United States — including three in the Philadelphia region.

System administrators aren’t likely to get much rest this summer. KnowBe4 CEO Stu Sjouwerman issued a “second-gen malware alert” to warn IT managers of new threats bursting on the scene.

Data analysis company Splunk is announcing a series of price slashes, but at the same time is pledging 100 percent uptime guaranteed in a move that has already garnered much media attention.

Security experts are warning of new persistent malware designed to evade detection by traditional tools by residing only in the computer registry.

Trend Micro's Tom Kellermann on Responding to Evolving Attacks, Strategies

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22 Jump Street and Transformers: Age of Extinction topped the list of summer flicks used in social engineering, according to a Tuesday post by Trend Micro.

Where traditional malware is found in files embedded in your computer, Trend Micro’s Trend Labs has found new malware, called TROJ_POWELIKS.A, which hides code within the Windows Registry

A new piece of malware called Poweliks can seize control of a Windows computer — and it can't be detected by antivirus programs. That's because it doesn't download any files to the infected computer; instead, it resides as encrypted text in the computer's registry. From there it can seize control of the computer's processes to do things such as download more malware onto the computer.

A new piece of malware called Poweliks can seize control of a Windows computer — and it can't be detected by antivirus programs. That's because it doesn't download any files to the infected computer; instead, it resides as encrypted text in the computer's registry. From there it can seize control of the computer's processes to do things such as download more malware onto the computer.

A new malware program called Poweliks attempts to evade detection and analysis by running entirely from the system registry without creating files on disk, security researchers warn.

Cybersecurity event brings together an army of infosec nerds with a focus on threats, vulnerabilities, and innovative defenses.

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.