October 2020 marks the 17^th year of National CyberSecurity Awareness Month, where users and organizations should double their efforts to understand cybersecurity issues in every their digital dealings-and to take concrete steps to improve their privacy and security as necessary. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), with the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) has announced a four-week security strategy beneath the theme “Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart”. (You should use the NCSAM hashtag #BeCyberSmart during October to market your involvement in raising cybersecurity awareness.) Their schedule includes the next:

	Week of October 5 (Week 1):If You Connect It, Protect It Week of October 12 (Week 2):Securing Devices in the home and Work Week of October 19 (Week 3):Securing Internet-Connected Devices in Healthcare Week of October 26 (Week 4):The Future of Connected Devices

Here in Trend Micro’s Consumer Division, we’d prefer to do our part by giving a failure of the security issues you ought to know of as you see cybersecurity-and to offer here’s what you can do to safeguard yourself as well as your family while working, learning, or gaming in the home. To greatly help, we’ve also taken a look back at articles we’ve written recently to handle each group of threat-and to supply some quick links to gain access to our library of relevant blogs all within a place.

The selection of threats

Month and beyond as you see potential threats during Cybersecurity Awareness, remember our basic break down of where and how threats arise, which we outlined at the start of the year inside our Everyday Cyber Threat Landscape blog. An updated summary is given here:

Home network threats: Our homes are powered by online technologies increasingly. Over two-thirds (69%) of US households now own a minumum of one smart home device: from voice assistant-powered smart speakers to security systems and connected baby monitors. But gaps in protection can expose them to hackers. There have been an estimated 105m smart home attacks in the initial 1 / 2 of 2019 alone. With home routers particularly at an increased risk, it’s a problem that 83% are susceptible to attack. In the initial 1 / 2 of 2020, Trend Micro detected over 10.6 billion suspicious connection attempts on home routers’ unavailable ports-an issue made more worrisome by recent lab-based evidence that home routers are riddled with insecurities, because the Fraunhofer Home Router Security Report 2020 shows. This implies you will need to take steps to mitigate your router’s weaknesses, while deploying a house network security treatment for address other network insecurities also to further secure your smart devices.

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Endpoint threats: These are attacks targeted at you an individual squarely, via the e-mail channel usually. Trend Micro detected and blocked a lot more than 26 billion email threats in the initial 1 / 2 of 2019, nearly 91% of the full total amount of cyber-threats. These included phishing attacks made to trick you into simply clicking a malicious connect to steal your individual data and log-ins or commence a ransomware download. Or they may be made to con you into handing over your individual details, by taking one to legit-looking but spoofed sites. Endpoint threats sometimes include social media marketing phishing messages or legitimate websites which have been booby-trapped with malware even. All of this means is that installing endpoint security on your own Macs and PCs is crucial to your safety.

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Mobile security threats: Hackers are targeting our smartphones and tablets with greater sophistication also. Malware is unwittingly downloaded by users often, since it’s hidden in normal-looking mobile apps, just like the Agent Smith adware that infected over 25 million Android handsets in 2019 globally. Users may also be extra-exposed to social media marketing attacks and the ones leveraging unsecured public Wi-Fi when working with their devices. Again once, the finish goal for the hackers would be to earn money: either by stealing your individual data and log-ins; flooding your screen with adverts; downloading ransomware; or forcing your device to get hold of expensive premium rate telephone numbers that they own. The final outcome? Installing a mobile security solution, in addition to personal VPN, on your own Android or iOS device, ought to be section of your everyday security defense.

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Identity data breaches are everywhere: The recycleables needed to unlock your web accounts and help scammers commit identity theft and fraud are stored by the organizations you connect to online. Unfortunately, these ongoing companies stayed targeted by data thieves in 2019. Of November 2019 as, there have been over 1,200 recorded breaches in america, exposing a lot more than 163 million customer records. Worse even, hackers are actually stealing card data direct from web sites you shop with because they are entered in, via “digital skimming” malware. Having said that, an extremely popular method uses automated tools that try thousands of previously breached log-ins to see if some of them focus on your accounts. November 2017 through the finish of March 2019 from, over 55 billion such attacks were detected. Add these to the classical phishing attack, where email hoaxes made to help you to unwittingly give your data-and your computer data and identity could be severely compromised. In this category, using both a password manager and an identity security monitoring solution, is crucial for maintaining your identity data safe as you access your web accounts.

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How Trend Micro can help

Trend Micro understands these multiple sources for modern threats fully, so it supplies a comprehensive selection of security products to safeguard all areas of your digital life-from your smart home network to your PCs and Macs, and from your own mobile devices to your web accounts. We also know you will need security for the email and your internet sites, or when browsing the net itself simply.

Trend Micro Home Network Security: Provides protection against network intrusions, router hacks, web threats, dangerous file downloads and identity theft for each device connected to the real home network.

Trend Micro Premium Security Suite: Our new premium offering provides every one of the products listed below for 10 devices, plus Premium Services by our trained pros highly. It includes 24×7 tech support team, spyware and virus removal, a PC security health check, and remote repair and diagnosis. As always, however, each solution below can separately be purchased, as suits your preferences.

Trend Micro Security:Protects your PCs and Macs against web threats, phishing, social networking threats, data theft, online banking threats, digital skimmers, ransomware along with other malware. Guards against over-sharing on social media marketing also. Trend Micro Mobile Security:Protects against malicious app downloads, ransomware, dangerous websites, and unsafe Wi-Fi networks. Trend Micro Password Manager:Provides a secure spot to store, manage and update your passwords. It remembers your log-ins, helping you to long create, unique and secure credentials for every site/app you will need to sign-in to. Trend Micro WiFi Protection:Protects you on unsecured public WiFi by giving a virtual private network (VPN) that encrypts your traffic and ensures protection against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Trend Micro ID Security (Android, iOS): Monitors underground cybercrime sites to securely check if your individual information has been traded by code hackers on the Dark Web and supplies you with immediate alerts if that’s the case.