October 2020 marks the 17th year of National CyberSecurity Awareness Month, where users and organizations are encouraged to double their efforts to be aware of cybersecurity issues in all their digital dealingsāand to take concrete steps to increase their privacy and security as necessary. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in conjunction with the…
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Weāve all been spending more of our time online since the crisis hit. Whether itās ordering food for delivery, livestreaming concerts, holding virtual parties, or engaging in a little retail therapy, the digital interactions of many Americans are on the rise. This means weāre also sharing more of our personal and financial information online, with…
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Coronavirus has caused a major shift to our working patterns. In many cases these will long outlast the pandemic. But working from home has its own risks. One is that you may invite ransomware attacks from a new breed of cyber-criminal who has previously confined his efforts to directly targeting the corporate network. Why? Because…
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When we published our 2020 Predictions report in December, we didnāt realize there was a global pandemic brewing that would give cybercriminals an almost daily news cycle to take advantage of in their attacks against people and organizations around the world. Malicious actors have always taken advantage of big news to use as lures for…
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Trend Micro Research has developed a go-to resource for all things related to cybercriminal underground hosting and infrastructure. Today we released the second in this three-part series of reports which detail the what, how, and why of cybercriminal hosting (see the first part here). As part of this report, we dive into the common life…
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The number of VPN users has grown considerably over the past few years. According to the report of Go-Globe, 25% of netizens worldwide have used a VPN at least once in the last 30 days. Recently, VPN usage has surged in many countries and its popularity may see VPN usage surpass the estimated profit of…
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Identifying security threats early can be difficult, especially when youāre running multiple security tools across disparate business units and cloud projects. When it comes to protecting cloud-native applications, separating legitimate risks from noise and distractions is often a real challenge. Thatās why forward-thinking organizations look at things a little differently. They want to…
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āWeāre here to serveā is Benny Yazdanpanahiās motto as CIO for City of Tyler located in Texas. Supporting a population of approximately 107,000, Yazdanpanahiās vision for his city relies on the use of data to deliver exceptional services to citizens, today and into the future. Since joining the city nearly 19 years ago, Yazdanpanahi…
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At Black Hat USA 2020, Trend Micro presented two important talks on vulnerabilities in Industrial IoT (IIoT). The first discussed weaknesses in proprietary languages used by industrial robots, and the second talked about vulnerabilities in protocol gateways. Any organization using robots, and any organization running a multi-vendor OT environment, should be aware of these attack…
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Welcome to the new normal. Weāre all now living in a post-COVID-19 world characterized by uncertainty, mass home working and remote learning. The lines demarcating normal life have shifted abruptly ā perhaps never to return. Thatās not the worst that can happen, as we all know, but it does mean we all need to get…
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