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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.