Trend Micro 2010 Future Threat Report

Trend Micro released its annual threat report today.  This year, our annual report focuses on the future of the threat landscape: Virtualization, Cloud-Computing and a Shifting Internet Infrastructure will Widen the Scope of Cybercrime With the growing popularity of cloud computing and virtualization among companies, we fully expect cybercriminals to find new methods by which [...]

December Patch Tuesday Fixes Previously Reported IE Vulnerability

In this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released six security advisories to address 12 vulnerabilities. Three of these security bulletins are deemed “critical” (MS09-071, MS09-074, MS09-072 ) while the rest are tagged as “important.” The recently reported vulnerability exploit in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 is also fixed in MS09-072. The said vulnerability could [...]

Phishers Add Web Hosting Sites to Their List of Targets

Trend Micro threat analysts come across a huge number of phishing cases that feature nearly identical domain names every day. In a Web reputation manual verification exercise, analysts found that three of the most popular phishing targets to date were Chase, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and, just recently, Web hosting sites. To launch [...]