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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”.