The threat landscape is notorious for its volatility. Specific threats popular with the black hats one year might be eschewed the next, for any number of reasons. Trend Micro predicts that one of the most successful infection vectors around – malvertising – might finally be on the way out in 2016 thanks to a rise…
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According to Trend Micro Q3 2015 Security Roundup, “Hazards Ahead: Current Vulnerabilities Prelude Impending Attacks,” Point of Sale (PoS) Random Access Memory (RAM) malware targeting Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) is on the rise. Some threat actors have now industrialized PoS RAM malware by deploying traditional mass-infection tools such as spam, botnets and exploit kits…
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If you haven’t yet been a victim of ransomware, you’ve no doubt heard of it—and worried about how you can protect yourself from it. Ransomware—a nasty form of malware that locks your computer or encrypts your files until you pay a fee, usually by a deadline—is now more vicious than ever—with 15,000 of the 48,000…
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In the Trend Micro 2016 Security Predictions report, “The Fine Line,” our CTO, Raimund Genes predicted the following: China will drive mobile malware growth to 20M by the end of 2016; globally, mobile payment methods will be attacked. Let’s discuss this and put some perspective around the information to help you understand what is happening…
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To the casual observer it might seem from the headlines saturating our news over the past couple of years as if data breaches happen almost exclusively at retailers. There certainly has been a spate of attacks of late, which seemed to snowball after a major incident in December 2013 when hackers stole the records of…
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Crypto-ransomware is a growing crime problem for everyone who uses the Internet – including small businesses, of course. You’ve probably heard about this form of malware before, but as a reminder, it tricks you into downloading the ransomware onto your PC via spam with links that take you to a fake website that often looks…
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1. Use Activity Monitor If you want to see what apps are using up your system, open the Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Activity Monitor shows all the processes on your Mac (some of which you can’t or shouldn’t close) so click on View and Windowed Processes. Now click on the CPU button and…
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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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