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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.