2011 was rife with both challenges and wins not only for Trend Micro but also for the rest of the security industry and our fellow cybercrimefighters in law enforcement. True to one of our predictions, 2011 has been dubbed the “Year of Data Breaches,” as we witnessed organizations worldwide succumb to targeted breach attacks [...]
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According to InsideFacebook, scammers are exploiting the negative sentiments surrounding Facebook’s Timeline, and are currently spamvertising bogus pages attempting to trick end users into removing their Timeline profile.More from InsideFaacebook.comWe have found 16 Timeline-related scam pages, which have collectively gained more than 71,000 likes. The largest, with nearly 19,000 likes, has been around [...] Amit Klein, CTO of the security firm Trusteer, predicts that social engineering attacks against enterprises will be on the rise in 2012. The problem is that too many people disclose too much personal information on social networks, and this gives thieves the leverage they need to gain and then abuse people’s trust. Read entire [...] In August 2011, we released our Snapshot of Android Threats, which stated that there was a significant increase in the number of Trojanized Android apps and actual malware targeting the Android platform. In our 12 Security Predictions For 2012, we mentioned that smartphone and tablet platforms, especially Android, will suffer from more cybercriminal attacks. In [...] …if there’s actual evidence, I have no doubt that law enforcement will act. However, I think this is highly unlikely. —Konstantin Poltev (spokesman of Esthost/Rove Digital), October 13, 2008 In the past, some cybercriminals have been so brazen that they publicly declared chances they will ever be caught are slim. Today, however, it is time [...] |
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