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According to research released by Trend Micro, only 55 percent of companies are using third-party tools to secure their cloud environments.

Some security pros believe they will be made completely obsolete by AI before 2030.

Managers and employees can use an accomplishment tracker and an objective planning worksheet to chart a path for developing new skills.

IT pros who have worked with natural language processing, automation, and machine learning operations will have the most job opportunities in the new year.

Nine critical bugs and 58 overall fixes mark the last scheduled security advisory of 2020.

Organizations can easily suffer seven or more attacks a year.

Long awaited legislation is seen as a springboard to widespread adoption of standards across the booming connected devices industry.

With the popularization of open-source software, the risks of malicious people exploiting their vulnerabilities have also increased. 

Faked images could successfully fool these AI-driven systems into unlocking smart phones or allowing intruders entry into a building using fake IDs.

A macOS backdoor variant has been uncovered that relies of multi-stage payloads and various updated anti-detection techniques.

The global cloud security market is projected to account for $20.9 billion by 2027, according to a report by Million Insights and is expected to grow with 14.6% CAGR from 2020 to 2027.

Anti-virus software developer Trend Micro has been appraised as the most valuable Taiwan-based global brand in 2020, according to Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

The tool leverages the Google Fact Check API and a partnership with NewsGuard

Text-based codes are better than nothing, observers say. But users should replace phone-based authentication with apps and security keys. 

A report on the underground economy finds that malicious actors are offering cloud-based troves of stolen data, accessible with handy tools to slice and dice what’s on offer.

Security is one of the main reasons Linux is chosen. In some ways, it can be a more stable and secure base OS to start from, no matter the use case.

Technology start-ups today are primarily born in the cloud with a culture of iteration and speed.

A production line for pharmaceuticals. There have been a number of high-profile ransomware incidents in the manufacturing sector in 2020. 

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $250,000 grant to Georgia State University (GSU) to study how best to disrupt - and ultimately take down - the supply chains that allow cybercriminals to thrive.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition has been turned into a virtual event and Pwn2Own Tokyo is actually coordinated by Trend Micro’s ZDI from Toronto, Canada, with participants demonstrating their exploits remotely.

The SaltStack vulnerabilities, disclosed Tuesday, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of the popular open source software.

Mobile Security Market research report shows the latest market insights, current situation analysis with upcoming trends and breakdown of the products and services.

Operation Earth Kitsune is said to have deployed the spyware samples on websites associated with North Korea, although access to these websites is blocked for users originating from South Korean IP addresses.

Prizes for bad actors can be access to stolen data and tools to make hacks easier, according to new research from Trend Micro.

Trend Micro's William Malik discusses the challenges of trying to secure OT systems with outdated info security concepts.

With an average of 10 million new malware threats recorded per month, organizations must address employee apathy in light of the growing risks. Trend Micro's report concluded that simply building more workplace security awareness programs for employees isn't the answer.

An adware family known primarily for distributing browser hijackers has been caught distributing full-blown malware, security researchers said today in a talk at the Virus Bulletin 2020 security conference.

A 2017 analysis by Trend Micro found the BlackTech gang to have orchestrated three campaigns — PLEAD, Shrouded Crossbow, and Waterbear — with an intent to steal confidential documents and the target's intellectual property.

Microsoft is not the only technology provider emphasizing XDR in its security portfolios. Cisco, McAfee and Trend Micro, among others, describe XDR as the progression of EDR.

Trend Micro’s hybrid cloud security offerings have been designated as AWS Outposts Ready, meaning Trend Micro solutions are now fully and demonstrably capable of integrating with Outposts deployments.

Tokyo-based Trend Micro notes that "93.5% of the email threats we detected contained both a malicious file attachment and a malicious link."

Trend Micro will integrate its cloud security platform with Snyk’s developer-focused open source vulnerability detection service in a bid to mitigate open source code risks.

The new capabilities will help teams find vulnerabilities in open source code automatically and also support compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, and other key security frameworks and standards.

Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, the largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program in the world, was battle-hardened more than a decade before you could hack the Pentagon. They have purchased and disclosed vulnerabilities found by freelance hackers in everything from Windows to industrial control equipment. It’s one-part public service to help disclose vulnerabilities to manufacturers, one-part research service for defenders trying to get a head start on security gaps they will need to defend.

The Initiative celebrated 15 years this week. SC Media talked with the Zero Day Initiative Director Brian Gorenc about how the project came to be, what the last 15 years have taught him about disclosure, and that time he inadvertently rendered NSA spy tools useless.

By making their findings public, Trend Micro researchers are prompting organizations to further scrutinize the little black boxes that serve as translators on key networks. The research covered vendors in France, Taiwan and the U.S.

Industrial robots are now being used to assemble everything from airplanes to smartphones, using human-like arms to mechanically repeat the same processes over and over, thousands of times a day with nanometric precision.

But according to a new report entitled “Rogue Automation,” some robots have flaws that could make them vulnerable to advanced hackers, who could steal data or alter a robot’s movements remotely, like a scene out of science fiction.

Turf wars are heating up over the routers that fuel distributed denial of service attacks—and cybermercenaries are running rampant.

On Wednesday, the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro is releasing findings about escalating global turf wars between attacker groups vying to seize control of vulnerable routers and other devices. Their aim: to power botnets that can direct a firehose of malign traffic or requests for DDoS attacks. Such territory disputes are a hallmark of botnets, but attackers seem increasingly motivated grow their zombie armies not for their own purposes, but in service of more professionalized—and profitable—"DDoS for hire" schemes.

Marco Balduzzi, senior research scientist with Trend Micro, next month at the Black Hat USA virtual event will disclose details of multiple vulnerabilities he and his team discovered in a sampling study of five popular ICS gateway products. Their findings focused not on the gateways' software nor the industrial protocols as in previous research, but rather on a lesser-studied function: the protocol translation process the devices conduct.

A new Trend Micro study reveals how remote workers address cybersecurity -- 72% say they are more conscious of their organization’s cybersecurity policies since lockdown began, but many are breaking the rules anyway due to limited understanding or resource constraints.

A new wave of data breaches in eight U.S. city governments is the work of online scammers using malicious code against the troubled online payments platform Click2Gov, according to research published by TrendMicro.

Trend Micro is adding functionality to its Cloud One platform that will boost managed security service providers’ practices. The vendor made the announcements on Thursday during its first-ever live virtual event. Like other companies, Trend Micro has opted to host customer and partner gatherings over the web until the COVID-19 pandemic passes. As such, Trend Micro shared news that its MSSPs are sure to embrace.

Data breaches, cybercrime and targeted attacks in the cloud have driven demand for cloud security products and services in recent years. From misconfigured storage buckets and excess privileges to Infrastructure as Code templates and automated attacks, this article looks at 12 of the biggest cloud threats that experts are worried about this year.

The Internet Security group Shadowserver has a vital behind-the-scenes role; it identifies online attacks and wrests control of the infrastructure behind them. In March, it learned that longtime corporate sponsor Cisco was ending its support. With just weeks to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to move its data center out of Cisco's facility—not to mention an additional $1.7 million to make it through the year—the organization was at real risk of extinction. Ten weeks later, Shadowserver has come a long way toward securing its financial future.

Trend Micro has created a guide to Kubernetes threats that categorizes the threats into three broad categories: external attacks, misconfiguration issues and vulnerable applications.

Patch management has historically been a challenge for IT and security teams, which are under pressure to create strong programs and deploy fixes as they're released. Now their challenges are intensified as a global shift to remote work forces companies to rethink patching strategies. Security pros share insights and best practices.

Millions of people have signed up for Netflix during the coronavirus crisis. But cyber criminals have created their own video services on the small screen. It’s like ‘Netflix’ for crooks — and the stars of these shows are you and your money. [VIDEO]

We’re four weeks into the massive time-out forced on us by coronavirus. Many of us have spent much of that time trying to get used to the radical lifestyle change the virus has brought. But we’re also beginning to think about the end of the crisis, and what the world will look like afterward.

Fast Compnay asked some executives, venture capitalists, and analysts for thoughts on the specific changes they expected to see in their worlds. Our CEO Eva Chen weighs in.

Human error and complex cloud deployments open the door to a wide range of cyber threats, according to Trend Micro.

This report reaffirms that misconfigurations are the primary cause of cloud security issues. In fact, 230 million misconfigurations are identified on average each day, proving this risk is prevalent and widespread.

For the past year, one of Russia's top state-sponsored hacking units has spent its time scanning and probing the internet for vulnerable email servers, according to a report published yesterday by cyber-security firm Trend Micro.

The report deals with the activities of APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, Sednit, and Pawn Storm.

Trend Micro blocked over 52 billion unique cyber-threats in 2019, 61 million of which were ransomware, according to its annual roundup report.

The security firm revealed that email remained by far the most popular threat vector, accounting for 91% of all threats. It detected 15% more email threats than in 2018, including a 5% increase in BEC detections.