Safe behaviors to protect yourself from cryptojacking follow the familiar rules you should adhere to every day to protect yourself against viruses, worms, bots, and malware, including ransomware, which are typically pushed to you through phishing techniques and social engineering: Strengthen your network device’s credentials (e.g., your router), to make it less open…
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When your computer or mobile device (and now, even your IoT device) is hijacked to secretly mine cryptocurrencies, it’s been cryptojacked and becomes a coinmining zombie. Its CPU, memory, disk, and power are enlisted in varying degrees in the service of the mining botnet, which labors on behalf of those who use it, with other…
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You might have seen reports that the FBI is warning home users of a new foreign cyber-attack campaign targeted at your routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Here’s a breakdown of exactly what has happened, and what you need to do to keep your home IT systems safe and secure. What is VPNFilter? This is…
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Maintaining its Top Product protection rating, Trend Micro Internet Security 12.0 (2018) continues to show 100% Protection results in tests conducted by the internationally respected testing lab AV-TEST.org. In its Mar-Apr 2018 test of 18 endpoint security products on Windows 10, the latest release of Trend Micro Internet Security blocked 100% of 196 “real-world” 0-day…
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In the digital age, your personal data and online behavior is increasingly being tracked whenever you browse, search, watch the news, use social networks, purchase goods, or manage your accounts online. Trend Micro, with nearly 30 years of experience in the security industry, is acutely aware of the threat this can pose to your data…
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“Why choose Dr. Cleaner?” This is a common question that many people want to ask as there were too many cleanup apps for the Mac and many don’t know which one is the best one or safe to use. However, do not simply believe that there are no viruses or adware found on the macOS….
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In the last post we highlighted the privacy risks associated with using popular social networking sites and browsers. You might not appreciate just how much of your personal data is being accessed by advertisers and other third parties via your social media accounts and internet browsing. Similarly, your privacy settings may have changed significantly since…
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Most Americans today spend many of their waking hours online. In fact, we’re up to spending an average of five hours per day just on our mobiles. Much of this time is spent browsing the web or checking in, updating and sharing via our favorite social networks. There’s just one problem: unless you have your…
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Submitted by Ian Grutze If mobile threats diversified and expanded in 2016, they matured in 2017. Mobile ransomware continued to rear its head, burgeoning into the platform’s most prevalent threat. Simple screen lockers, for instance, evolved into file-encrypting malware, some of which even seemed to keep pace with their desktop counterparts in terms of malicious routines….
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The latest version of the macOS operating system, macOS High Sierra, was released on Monday, September 25, 2017. In this article, we will explain how to upgrade mac to macOS High Sierra. Why Should We Upgrade to macOS High Sierra? Apple released the latest macOS, High Sierra, and added some new features including…
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