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SAN FRANCISCO — A breach of computers belonging to companies in Japan and India and to Tibetan activists has been linked to a former graduate student at a Chinese university — putting a face on the persistent espionage by Chinese hackers against foreign companies and groups.

We knew it wouldn’t be long before Pinterest, the image-based social network, would attract spammers. We spotted a new scam on the site today, luring users to click for coupons to popular stores.

Eva Chen does not commute. Rather, she performs extreme and unnatural acts in the art of showing up for work.

Everyone has a story to tell about safe and respectful use of technology, and those who tell it via video could win a $10,000 prize from Internet security company Trend Micro.

Google has teamed up with Facebook and Microsoft.

It’s a very rare occurrence. But even the worst of tech enemies can agree that phishing is bad.

For years, the business world has belonged to Windows. As recently as 2008, technology research firm Forrester Research was telling companies that Windows PCs were the only machines they needed to worry about. Macs were a non-issue—but not anymore.

For Apple fans juggling iPads, iPhones and Macbooks, Apple's iCloud, which launched Wednesday, offers the chance to simplify their digital lives by linking email, calendars, music and photos from multiple devices.

It was a subtle swap: a cheesy advertisement for a vacation timeshare site atop the home page of ESPN.com, in a spot that might have been claimed by a well-known brand like Dr Pepper.

U.S. authorities have charged six Estonians and a Russian with running an Internet scam that infected 4 million computers in 100 countries and redirected searches to advertising sites that generated at least $14 million for the suspects.

(CBS) - A video called "How to crack the iPad password in 5 seconds" is beginning to circulate on YouTube, which shows a man bypassing an iPad lock screen in seconds. No password. No hacking. So how did he do it?

A hacking group calling themselves “Team Swastika” posted what they claimed was over 10,000 comprised Facebook accounts to Pastebin, a service that serves as an online clipboard. However, according to statements from Facebook PR, these email and password combinations don’t actually represent live Facebook accounts. Instead, it appears that the hackers obtained the accounts using common phishing techniques, where users were tricked into giving away their personal information.

Trend Micro lays out the numbers – it costs a lot to recover when your computer or device is compromised, but many people just don't take security all that seriously.

Trend Micro researchers traced a SpyEye malware campaign originating from Russia and they estimated the cyber-criminal had stolen $3.2 million so far in 2011.

The prospect of consumers and employees physically losing information-packed mobile devices, or getting them hacked, is driving a red-hot sector of the tech industry: supplying mobile security.

A hacker known in the cybercriminal underground as “soldier” has stolen $3.2 million from major U.S. corporations in the past six months, according to researchers at anti-virus firm Trend Micro.

HP needs 6-8 weeks to ship additional TouchPads, according to a leaked email sent to customers. HP is prepping one last run for its defunct tablet.

Because traditional approaches to security don't port easily to public or private clouds, the nonprofit Cloud Security Alliance is working to help CIOs assess the security levels of various cloud providers.

Some 8 million web pages, published mostly by smaller merchants and professional firms, have been hijacked this summer and set up to usurp control of the PCs of unsuspecting site visitors.

Millions of Web pages are hacker landmines

I have been using an evaluation version of SafeSync for Business from Trend Micro for about a week now. My new laptop had been pestering me about data backup ever since I got it, and the opportunity presented itself with this evaluation to backup my data on the cloud. So, I went for it, with pleasing results.

In his latest security blog, Dave Asprey refers to Gartner's recent report - entitled `Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing: Does Cloud Security Belong?' - and notes the report's conclusion that most companies have cloud strategies, but few have cloud-centric strategies.

Google said Wednesday that hackers based in China gained access to hundreds of Gmail accounts, including some belonging to senior U.S. government officials and military personnel. The personal Gmail account of one Cabinet-level official was compromised, an official with knowledge of the breach said.

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton reportedly said, "because that's where the money is." Although he later denied saying that, the quote endures and is applied to both legitimate businesses and criminal enterprises, including the production and distribution of what we generally think of as computer viruses or malware.

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Trend Micro Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eva Chen said she hopes for the security-software maker’s revenue to increase by at least 10 percent over the longer term a year as demand grows from an expanding cloud computing.

Use news of earthquake, tsunami to solicit donations, trick users into downloading fake AV software, say experts