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It can happen to the best of us. You're on your PC and there's a pop up telling you to update your Windows Drivers for free. You click on it. Next thing you know when you go to do a search, there's some strange toolbar that takes you to Ask.com, or some other ad infested search engine instead of the search engine, like Google, you thought you were visiting. These annoying, distracting, toolbars can take hours to get rid of. And they are so cleverly insinuated onto your computer that it may
Dec. 19, 2013 - 5:06 - Trend Micro VP of technology and solutions JD Sherry weighs in on Target's credit card security breach.
Update: December 20: In an online statement, Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel said “There is no indication that PIN numbers have been compromised on affected bank issued PIN debit cards or Target debit cards. Someone cannot visit an ATM with a fraudulent debit card and withdraw cash.”
Hackers gained access to as many as 40 million credit and debit cards used by customers of Target during the height of the holiday shopping season, the company reported Thursday, in one of the biggest data breaches in history.
Stronger attacks in cyberspace should be expected in 2014 with major data breaches to happen every month and advanced mobile banking attacks to increase, a report said.
Trend Micro released its annual security predictions report. The outlook cites that one major data breach will occur every month next year, and advanced mobile banking and targeted attacks will accelerate.
A malware decline and ransomware rise are in the security crystal ball for 2014.
Holidays are a favorite time of the year for online scammers.
Nov. 27, 2013 - 9:39 - Trend Micro’s Global VP of Threat Research, Rik Ferguson, discusses the cyber threat to people shopping online this holiday season