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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

The Xbox One video game console launches in only a few hours, but beware: Online scammers are already targeting people looking for a new system this holiday season.

It's enough to make a company lose its app-etite. From January to July of this year, 718,000 malicious and high-risk apps were distributed on the Android mobile platform alone, according to JD Sherry, vice president of technology and solutions at computing security firm Trend Micro in Irving, Texas. That's more than double the number of Android-based malware apps discovered in all of 2012.

Consumers are excited about the next generation of gaming consoles, but scammers are even more excited. Sony's PlayStation 4 launched last week, Microsoft's Xbox One will launch this week — and a deluge of scams taking advantage of the new consoles have launched as well.

Nov. 14, 2013 - 9:04 - Trend Micro’s JD Sherry breaks down how aging infrastructure and interconnectivity are leaving our cities vulnerable to cyber criminals.

Security firm Trend Micro has been showcasing its comprehensive suite of Amazon Web Services (AWS) security products at Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. It calls them ” a comprehensive, automated security solution for deployments on AWS”.

What’s the best way to protect servers in the cloud? How can you account for the transient nature of cloud servers and provide the same protection in the cloud as on on-premises? To find out, InfoQ spoke with Mark Nunnikhoven, principal engineer of cloud & emerging technologies at Trend Micro. You can find Mark on Twitter as @marknca.

Malicious software aimed at stealing online banking credentials surged in the third quarter of this year to a level not seen since 2002, according to a new report from Trend Micro.

During the past quarter the Internet reached the highest infection rate since 2002 in terms of the volume of malware infections, according to the TrendLabs 3Q security report titled “The Invisible Web Unmasked” from internet security firm Trend Micro. Report highlights were offered on the TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog.

Holiday shoppers should be aware of a rise in malicious apps and malware designed to steal financial details, according to security experts.

CINCINNATI -- Ohio resident James Dick already had deleted an inbox's worth of bogus e-mails about the Affordable Care Act when his telephone rang.

Security can be a bugaboo for companies considering cloud infrastructure deployments, but some businesses use the...

Computer Sciences Corp. and Trend Micro Inc. have forged an alliance that will provide global customers an intelligence technology that works to protect enterprise data and computer systems.

A flaw found in a "staggering number" of apps for the iPhone and iPad could be exploited to send malicious information to the gadgets, researchers at Skycure reported Tuesday. The vulnerability allows enterprising hackers to redirect an app's communication with its appointed server to one operated by nefarious parties.

Researchers find 25 flaws in products used in power and water systems that attackers could exploit. In a separate study, researchers find vulnerabilities in a widely used vessel tracking system.

Don't think supernatural baddies exist? You're about to be proved wrong. Vampires and witches pose some of the most dangerous cyber threats out there. In the spirit of Halloween, Trend Micro released an entertaining infographic that pairs some of the spookiest frights to their cyber counterparts.

Dutch police arrest four men on charges of using TorRAT banking malware to steal an estimated $1.4 million from consumers. They allegedly laundered the funds using the cryptographic currency known as Bitcoins.

Healthcare.gov, the Obamacare portal, asks for social security numbers, among other sensitive information.

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology released its draft of a voluntary cybersecurity framework to protect critical infrastructure from online attacks.

When you think of the leading enterprise security vendors, which companies come to mind? Perhaps it’s the network security crowd like Check Point, Cisco, and Juniper. Maybe it’s the big system vendors like HP and IBM, or it could be traditional security firms like McAfee and Symantec. These are the usual suspects here in North America, but it may be high time to include a company that already has this profile in Asia – Trend Micro. I say this because I attended the Trend Micro analyst event

Never say never to hackers as they have proven that pretty much anything can be hacked, especially when protocols are designed without any thought to security. This time, security researchers placed Automated Identification System (AIS) in the crosshairs and showed that this mandatory tracking system for about 400,000 ships is “comprehensively vulnerable to a wide range of attacks that could be easily carried out by pirates, terrorists or other attackers.”