Who goes on a shopping frenzy when seeing low-priced electronics and houseware just in time for the gift-giving season? Obviously a lot of people, as evidenced by the $1.25 billion total online spending seen on Cyber Monday last year, the heaviest in U.S. history. This year, entrepreneurs and consumers anticipate another record-breaking Cyber Monday as the holiday season approaches.
What’s more is that this online holiday shopping explosion is slowly spreading across the world. In Australia, a one-day online sale, Click ...
Earlier, we talked about how ordinary users can use NFC securely. However, truly widespread adaptation of NFC is only going to happen if businesses adopt it for their own use. How can businesses safely use NFC for their own purposes?
For one of the most popular uses of NFC - mobile payments - businesses really aren't in a position to use their own solution; what's more likely is that businesses will adapt some sort of existing mobile payment system. Both credit ...
It appears that information theft has taken a new form: we've found a malware that steals image files from all drives of an affected system and then sends them to a remote FTP server.
Detected as TSPY_PIXSTEAL.A, this particular malware opens a hidden command line and copies all .JPG, .JPEG, and .DMP files. Both .JPG and .JPEG files pertain to file formats commonly used for images, while .DMP files are memory dump files that contain information on why a particular system ...
In TrendLabs, it has become somewhat a tradition for our researchers to remind readers of the things cybercriminals do to scare them into falling into their traps. After all, not only do they take advantage of this trick-or-treating festivities to send e-cards or poison search results, the malicious tweets, disturbing Facebook posts, and the scareware that are still plaguing users happen all year round. We even did an infographic last year to sum up these tactics.
Today, cybercriminal activities, hackers, and ...
The vast number of users on the Internet definitely makes for a lucrative market for businesses. We see more companies offering social media, gaming, e-Commerce, banking, and other services online. At 2.6 billion, the world’s web surfers exceed the population of China and India combined! That's a big potential market!
With more services available, online activity every 24 hours has risen by the millions, even billions. Here are some examples:
The number of email messages sent every day almost quadrupled from 97 ...
