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Trend Micro releases new mobile security report

Trend Micro, a leading Internet security firm, has released a new study concerning the state of mobile security. Security has become a very significant issue in the mobile space and continues to grow more serious as more consumers purchase smartphones and tablets. The advent of mobile technology has helped changed the Internet and how people connect through digital mediums. Mobile devices today store information that is considered valuable to hackers and other groups that would be interested in exploiting this information for some gain.

Report highlights security threats linked to world events

According to Trend Micro’s latest report, called “Trend Micro Q1 2013,” major events unfolding around the world have sparked an increase in the number of spammers that have been showing up online. Malicious groups are forming parties that are vaguely associated with these events in order to ensnare consumers that are interested in what is happening around the world. The report notes that the attention that Google Glass, Google’s augmented reality eyewear, has been receiving recently in one of the events that has spawned new scamming attempts, putting strain on mobile security around the world.

Fake mobile games and applications target consumers

The study also found that fake mobile games are becoming a major issue for consumers. Gaming applications are typically distributed through services such as Google Play and the Apple App Store. These platforms have their own ways to ensure the safety of the applications they distribute, but the developers associated with these platforms typically only have to receive their distribution license once and are able to upload to these platforms freely once they become “trusted.” Some hacking groups have begun to pay developers to upload their malicious application, essentially circumventing the security measures that distribution platforms have in place.

Mobile security continues to demand attention

Mobile security continues to be a serious issue that is not often taken very seriously. Trend Micro suggests a large portion of the Android mobile devices that are in service today have been affected by mobile security threats in some form. Understanding these mobile security threats could be the first step in adequately defending mobile devices from the risks they face in the digital world.

The online blogging forum is now being purchased by the search engine giant in a recovery effort.

Yahoo! has announced in its latest technology news that it is purchasing the massively popular online blogging forum, Tumblr, for a cool $1.1 billion in order to breathe some life back into itself.

The CEO of Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer, is aiming to rejuvenate what was once the top search engine.

The company has managed to fall behind and Mayer is now making an aggressive acquisition to help to reverse this trend. The deal was first announced on Monday and is the boldest move that she has made with the company, since she left Google just under a year ago in order to lead the latest comeback effort at Yahoo! This is also the most expensive acquisition that the search engine company has made since the purchase of Overture ten years ago. That purchase made technology news headlines when Yahoo! forked over $1.3 billion in stock and cash.

This technology news will involve a payment all in cash, taking a chunk out of Yahoo’s reserves.

The company has been holding $7.6 billion in windfall, which it brought in when it sold half of its stake in Alibaba Holdings Group, the Chinese internet company. This means that the acquisition of Tumblr will take up approximately a fifth of the $5.4 billion that Yahoo! was storing in its accounts by the close of the first quarter of the year.

At the same time that Yahoo! made its acquisition technology news headlines, it also announced that the CEO of Tumblr, David Karp, would be maintaining his position “per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business.” Karp first started that company six years ago. Both businesses hope that it will soon become a central player in a massive recovery for Yahoo! to become the most influential companies on the internet once more. This is a position that it has not held in 13 years, since it was surpassed by Google – with the help of Mayer, who worked there at the time.