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A quarterly report found that 76 percent of targeted attacks – primarily launched by hacktivists or nation-state actors – were aimed at the government sector.

Cybercriminals continuously discover more ways to successfully target new outlets for financial theft, according to Trend Micro. Greed is motivating cybercriminals to take a non-traditional approach in the selection of unlikely targets, such as advanced threats to Point-of-Sale (PoS) terminals and the exploitation of disasters.

Every now and then, phishers mount campaigns that simultaneously target users of different online services.

The volume of mobile malware and high-risk apps soared to over two million in the first quarter of 2014, a decade after the first proof-of-concept mobile malware but only six months since the one million milestone was reached, according to Trend Micro.

In an effort to provide comprehensive security for the customers of its Azure cloud platform, Microsoft has expanded its strategic partnership with IT security solutions provider Trend Micro.

Scammers are attempting to harvest more than one set of credentials

Some victims get lost in the details of the payment process and run out of time.

Perpetrators of a web-based phishing scheme are accepting any email credentials, most likely in a bid to speed up the arduous, yet typically more successful process of individually targeting a specific organization in order to steal account information.

The arrival of ransomware on the mobile scene is just the beginning of a gathering storm. "This is going to be massive," said Trend Micro VP JD Sherry. "This will be the year that we see a tremendous amount of malware hitting mobile phones, and I don't think consumers and organizations are prepared to handle these attacks once they migrate to mobile devices."

The volume of mobile malware and high-risk apps soared to over two million in the first quarter of 2014, a decade after the first proof-of-concept mobile malware but only six months since the one million milestone was reached, according to Trend Micro.

For the kick-off of its annual Tech Ed user conference, being held this week in Houston, Microsoft has released a bevy of tools and services to help administrators connect their internal operations to Microsoft’s Azure cloud.

Microsoft addresses the fears of the post-Snowden world with its latest Azure update, announced at TechEd 2014.

Today is a big day for Microsoft. It’s making a large number of announcements around its developer tools at its enterprise-centric TechEd event in Houston today and in addition, it is also bringing a number of new features to its Azure cloud computing services.

At TechEd in Houston today, Microsoft announced a wide range of updates to its Azure cloud platform. As has become customary for Azure updates, the new features announced today include a mix of previews of brand-new capabilities, and general availability releases of features previously only in preview.

Microsoft officially flips the switch on its business-friendly, high-performance hybrid cloud connection service and introduces new Azure-powered file, security and disaster recovery solutions.

At its annual Tech Ed conference, Microsoft has released a range of hybrid cloud administration tools and services

The resignation of Target Corp. CEO Gregg Steinhafel earlier this week indicates a growing awareness among the C-suite and boards that security is intimately intertwined with business strategy and should be viewed as a board-level issue.

Testing real-world effectiveness of antivirus products is really, really tough. Ideally, you'd measure the way they handle in-the-wild malicious websites and applications when encountered exactly the way a user would. Of course, in order to score the test you'd need the ability to identify every malicious object, even zero-day attacks.

Chief executive and president Gregg Steinhafel has left the company after 35 years, including giving up his seat as chairman of the company's board of directors. Steinhafel had overseen the company as CEO since 2008 and as president since 2009. His departure follows that of CIO Beth Jacobs, who was just replaced by Homeland Security veteran Bob DeRodes.

Sitting in a room with the leaders of the country's largest retailers would look decidedly different today than it did two years ago as CEO shakeups have rocked the industry.

With IT facing more complex and new types of threats compared to years past, it's time to arm yourself with the best tools to keep you and your network secure.

David Sancho, senior threat researcher with Trend Micro, has recently written a short but good post in which he pointed out the reasons why despite their inherent insecurity, passwords are here to stay.

Gregg Steinhafel resigns "after extensive discussions"

How secure is the cloud? A number of panelists at last week's Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit talked about that issue, especially in the wake of the Snowden revelations and the Target breach.

Spamming and scamming has moved to social media in full force, according to new research on the Twittersphere from Trend Micro.a

The AOL Mail data security breach could yield enough valuable information to craft convincing phishing campaigns, according to security experts, who said the security incident is the latest in wide-scale targeting of web-based email accounts conducted by financially motivated cybercriminals.

A group of five hackers claims they worked for two weeks to find an exploit in the new patched version of OpenSSL, which the Heartbleed bug affected.

The Apache Software Foundation rushed last week to update the popular Apache Struts framework after a previous security patch for a high-risk vulnerability proved to be incomplete.

Hackers broke into the Twitter account of the Associated Press news service this week, posting a fake message that triggered a stock-market reaction that saw $200 billion briefly erased from United States markets.

To ensure smart appliances stay protected, Trend Micro recommends making sure to set a secure password for the appliance’s connectivity.

According to a study from Trend MicroInc., a security software firm based in Tokyo, the average amount that Brits are willing to pay to secure their online personal data is £2.50 ($4.20) a month–or £30, about $50, a year.

You shouldn’t feel safe when you’re playing a game. You might turn to your PlayStation 4 or another console to get away from the evils of the world, but you’re just as much at risk for identity theft or worse thanks to your gaming hobby … at least according to the security experts at Trend Micro.

To help Internet users protect themselves from the Heartbleed bug that is eroding SSL security features on websites worldwide, Trend Micro Incorporated has released two free Heartbleed scanners for computers and mobile devices.

Edward Snowden caused more damage to the Internet than the U.S. intelligence community did, according to a former deputy director of the NSA. But of course, he would say that. So, now what?

To help Internet users protect themselves from the Heartbleed bug that is eroding SSL security features on websites worldwide, Trend Micro released two free Heartbleed scanners for computers and mobile devices designed to verify whether they are communicating with servers that have been compromised by the Heartbleed bug.

Users of Android devices may have to think twice about the antivirus app they want to download and use—it could be malware in disguise

The agency overseeing the Canadian government's massive taxing authority is taking additional security measures to protect taxpayer data that was exposed in an attack this week from the notorious Heartbleed bug.

While it's very important for an antivirus to detect and remove malicious programs, it's almost equally important that the antivirus refrain from identifying valid programs as malicious. In the latest file detection test byAV-Comparatives, false positives made a huge difference in score for several programs.

Millions of websites, applications from Cisco and VMware, Google Play apps, as well as millions of Android devices are vulnerable -- and the list keeps growing.

Security software specialist Trend Micro announced major upgrades to its Complete User Protection solution, which spans PC and mobile endpoints, email and collaboration, and Web security to enable integrated visibility and threat response.

Trend Micro is reducing the complexity of its product offerings, unveiling a set of simplified options for small and midsize businesses under a strategy the company's executives said is aimed at stopping partners from selling capabilities to businesses that won't use them.

The Heartbleed security flaw, characterized by its cool logo, has been almost impossible to ignore for the past two weeks, as traditional and social media have breathlessly reported that it could infect as many as two-thirds of all web sites.

Brands and businesses are not implementing the security measures needed to protect assets, such as backing up data

So here’s some sort-of good news: Cybercriminals might be just as freaked out about the Heartbleed bug as the rest of us. Trend Micro analyst J.D. Sherry writesthat revelations about the gaping hole in the Open SSL, the security protocol used to encrypt web traffic, have caused “shell shock in the Deep Web as many of the hidden services within the TOR (The Onion Router) are impacted as well.”

McAfee seen as speediest in adding blocking protections to stop malware

As time passes, it becomes more and more obvious that almost no-one is safe from the danger created by the existence of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug.

When it comes to IT security, the complexity of managing all the technologies involved often seems like a clear-cut case of insult being continuously added to injury.

Trend Micro released an updated version of its Complete User Protection solution in select U.S. markets, giving IT admins and end users multilayered selection and mix-and-match capabilities for their enterprise infrastructures. The company will continue to roll out its new solutions portfolio throughout 2014.

Security specialist Trend Micro announced the release of two free Heartbleed scanners for computers and mobile devices designed to verify whether they are communicating with servers that have been compromised by the Heartbleed bug.