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Evaluating The Risk Of DoubleAgent

Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:35:43 +0000

Security startup Cybellum recently announced a new attack that they’re calling “DoubleAgent”. They’ve labelled this a zero day “attack for taking full control over major antiviruses and next-generation antiviruses”. There’s a lot to unpack here. When you’re assessing the risk any issue poses it’s always best to clearly define the issue. Let’s start there. The…

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TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of March 20, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:33:43 +0000

The 10th anniversary of Pwn2Own is now in the books! It was a crazy week at the CanSecWest Conference, full of drama with the biggest contest ever with teams from Asia, Europe and North America! It was a tight race with only three points separating first and second place. In the end, we saw a…

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FortiGuard Labs Telemetry – Round up of 2015 and 2016 IoT Threats (Part 4) – DVR/NVR devices

Credit to Author: Gavin Chow| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 07:21:45 -0700

Digital Video Recorders / Network Video Recorders (DVR/NVR) Back in 2015, our telemetry detected a relatively small number of IPS signature hits on known vulnerabilities targeting DVR/NVR devices (~ 749 hits). In 2016, however, we saw this number increase alarmingly to around 1.5 million hits. By using a size comparison chart again, we can see the huge increase more clearly when we compare both years, as shown below: The question, of course, is what contributed to this huge increase in detected hits? Once again, let’s look at the…

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