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Gartner security survey: McAfee up, Trend Micro down
A Gartner report about the security software market out today shows that No. 2 ranked McAfee enjoyed the most overall growth last year, Trend Micro slipped but stayed No. 3, and Symantec held onto its top spot with 19.6% of the $19.1 billion market.
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Reveton 'police virus? malware still being used by multiple gangs
The ?police virus? ransomware scam is still going strong despite a crime bust earlier this year saw the arrest of an East European gang accused of using it to attack large numbers of PC users, antivirus firm Panda Security has confirmed.
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Cybercrime booming in Latin America and Caribbean, Trend Micro finds
Internet criminals have opened a new front in Latin America and the Caribbean and seem to have founded booming businesses thanks to low levels of cybercrime protection and awareness, a rare but timely analysis of the region by Trend Micro has found.
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Trend Micro seeks to make Amazon Web Services more secure
Trend Micro today announced a slate of cloud-based security services that it says protect servers for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers.
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BlackBerry details extensive security protection in BlackBerry 10 OS
The recent release of the BlackBerry 10 operating system sets the stage for a security evolution as well, according to Alex Manea, manager of security services at BlackBerry.
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Malware-detecting 'sandboxing' technology no silver bullet
The security technology called "sandboxing" aims at detecting malware code by subjecting it to run in a computer-based system of one type of another to analyse it for behavior and traits indicative of malware.
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Honeypot for phony waterworks gets hammered on Internet
An experiment in which a Trend Micro researcher set up two instances of an Internet-based simulation of an industrial-control system (ICS) for a nonexistent water-pump facility in rural Missouri found the simulated system was targeted 17 times over about four months in ways that would have been catastrophic if it had been a real waterworks operation.
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Black Hat Europe: Security appliances riddled with vulnerabilities, researcher warns
The majority of email and Web gateways, firewalls, remote access servers, UTM (united threat management) systems and other security appliances have serious vulnerabilities, according to a security researcher who analysed products from multiple vendors.
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Potential weakness in SSL/TLS security downplayed by certificate group
Claims by a cryptography researcher this week about weaknesses in the RC4 algorithm used in SSL/TLS certificates is being downplayed by the group known as the Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC) which was recently established to address questions on security in this area.
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Enterprises are failing to tackle targeted network attacks
Large companies expect more protection from their existing security tools than they are capable of, according to research, which also found that almost three quarters (72 percent) of European enterprises have suffered a targeted attack on their networks.
