Doctors and pagers are two things that have been closely linked since the introduction of pagers in the 1960s. For decades, the doctor checking his (and later his or her) pager has been a staple in movies and television. And while you might have expected pagers to have gone way like rotary telephone (or any…
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With all the focus on ransomware so far in 2016, you could be forgiven for thinking that not much else is happening in the world of online crime. Don’t be too hasty though, while there is a massive uptick in criminal interest, innovation and investment in ransomware, other profitable forms of cybercrime are certainly not…
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Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back each Friday for…
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September 22, 2016 marked the arrival of the autumn equinox: the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere and the start of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. It was also a day where things just did not go my way and I should have just stayed in bed. Traffic was especially heavy that morning,…
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Trend Micro has seen ransomware on PCs dominate the threat landscape over the last 18 months with their unprecedented volume and destructiveness. But now cybercriminals are attacking another vector: the Android mobile platform. Our research shows unique Android ransomware threats grew 15 times higher in June 2016 than in April 2015[i]. The mobile ransomware threat…
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I’m excited to announce our new Worry-Free Services Plug-In for LabTech. This has been a number of years in the making; and for the first time ever, it is now possible to discover, deploy, and manage Trend Micro Worry-Free Services directly within the LabTech console. The Worry-Free Services Plug-In for LabTech will be available exclusively for our…
Read More Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back each Friday for…
Read More As I mentioned in a recent blog, TippingPoint celebrated its 15th birthday last month. Occasionally, I get asked if the company was named after the book The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. While we spell TippingPoint as ONE word with a capital P (despite a certain software’s insistence on spelling it as two words), our…
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Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes have been growing exponentially since 2013. Since January 2015 alone, according to a June 2016 public service announcement from the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there has been a 1,300 percent increase in losses. These schemes are quite simple in execution and are all focused on one thing –…
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All crime reflects the culture that it happens in. Whether something is even a crime or not depends on the culture of where you are. What is perfectly legal in one country can be a serious crime in another. What makes the difference, generally, is the different cultures in those counties. Cultural reflections in crime…
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