VP, Security Research
We all enjoy keeping up with friends and family on social media, but we have to be mindful of our privacy and security when we do. Here are some suggestions to help keep your personal information private: 1. Understand what information the site needs for your account and how they use it in the first…
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Protecting your computer and personal devices from malware requires both ongoing personal vigilance and help from professional security companies. Nowadays, malware doesn’t just target your home computers but also the mobile devices that you and your family are using. And the problem is bigger than you might think. Last year, an average 80 million malware…
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April 2015 sees the release of a project that has been a year in the making for us. Something that we had affectionately been calling “Choose Your Own Adventure” for most of its lifetime as we laid it out, put some meat on the bones and finally stitched it all together (no we weren’t making…
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Ensuring Internet safety for kids is more complex than ever before because it now includes all your family’s home computers, cell phones, and tablets. Every device should be a part of the safety program. Creating a safer Internet environment for kids requires a careful mix of parental authority and family trust. Parental authority extends to…
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2014 saw a significant jump in the quantity, quality and prevalence of point-of-sale malware attacks. These malicious creations, commonly referred to as PoS RAM Scrapers are designed to compromise the terminals used by businesses the world over to carry out retail transactions. Tens of millions of payment card details are routinely stolen, sometimes in a…
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Every day it seems we need to create a new account online and with each new account comes the added risk of our personal information being stolen. Managing passwords to online accounts is not a simple matter. We could all use a little help. Using a password manager like Trend Micro™ Password Manager to help…
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Much of the concern around mobile operating systems and services has focused on the risks inherent in the Android platform. The openness and widespread nature of the ecosystem has certainly led to it being both the most widespread, the most widely targeted, and the most successfully exploited. Google’s Android has traditionally had a less rigorous…
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For the final blog post in the series supporting the release of our Q3 Threat Roundup “Vulnerabilities Under Attack” I was asked to write “an analysis of security challenges faced by users.” Fortunately I have the source material of the Threat Roundup to stick to because really, that’s a subject deserving of a series in…
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Of course we all know that Father Christmas is out there, with his happy elves, keeping tabs on us throughout the year. In fact every year a considerable part of my time each day is spent going through my activities and making sure that nothing I have done will mean that I end up on…
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It is perhaps telling that when preparing this blog post, I had to add the word “wearables” to the dictionary of my word processor. We are still at the very beginning of the journey into an interconnected “Internet of Everything” but the truth is that every beginning exists in its own unique circumstances. The circumstances…
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