Month: March 2017

SecurityTrendMicro

Pwn2Own 2017 – An Event for the Ages

Credit to Author: Brian Gorenc| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:00:29 +0000

The 10th anniversary of Pwn2Own just successfully completed as the Zero Day Initiative spent $833,000 acquiring 51 different 0-day bugs. The event was filled with drama as vendors released their security patches the day before the contest, causing a number of entries to pull out immediately. Over the next three days, five additional entries would…

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SecurityTrendMicro

2016 Review of Vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:00:45 +0000

In our 2016 security roundup report, A Record Year for Enterprise Threats, we talked about the vulnerability landscape during the year and what trends we saw. Let’s look at some of the key aspects of what we saw in 2016. 1. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) with support of their 3,000+ independent vulnerability researchers,…

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SecurityTrendMicro

The S In HTTPS

Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:00:37 +0000

If you’ve ever bought anything online, checked your bank accounts through the app, or logged on to your favorite social media network, you’ve used a technology called SSL/TLS. The S in HTTPS. SSL/TLS (just to keep it simple, I’ll refer to as SSL) is the technology used to encrypt the communication between your browser and…

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Look before you leap: 4 hard truths about IoT

Credit to Author: Stephen Lawson| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 05:21:00 -0700

Most technologies go through a stage when everything seems possible. Personal computers in the early 1980s, the internet in the late 1990s and mobile apps around the beginning of this decade were like that.

But so was the first unboxing of a Galaxy Note 7. In time, either suddenly or gradually, reality sets in.

The internet of things still looks promising, with vendors and analysts forecasting billions of connected devices that will solve all sorts of problems in homes and enterprises. But the seams are starting to show on this one, too. As promising as the technology is, it has some shortcomings. Here are a few.

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