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Credit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:07:09 +0000
The third and final day of the largest Pwn2Own shapes up with four entries and the awarding of Master of Pwn. It’s a tight race with multiple teams still in the running. Here’s the schedule for Day Three: 9:00am – 360 Security (@mj011sec) targeting Microsoft Edge with a SYSTEM-level escalation and a virtual machine escape…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:07:22 +0000
The Trump administration keeps doubling down on a surveillance story, even though it’s in their best interests to drop it. The post Trump Can’t Quit His Wiretap Claims. That Won’t End Well appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:08:31 +0000
The recent WikiLeaks drop of CIA documents has raised awareness of the reality of cyber-threats and espionage, and how digital infrastructure in America and around the world is under threat thanks to hacking attacks and ransomware, James Lyne told Tom Costello on NBC’s Today show. In the two-part segment, James and Tom Costello talked about […]
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:47:43 +0000
Machine learning is being applied to five new areas with high hopes that it can catch threats before they result in major cyber security incidents.
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:23:17 +0000
Three commonly overlooked endpoints might be your biggest cyber threats, and you need to know some of the best ways to protect them:
Credit to Author: Brian Forster | Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:04:50 -0700
The financial services industry was a primary target for cybercriminals in 2016, and due to the value of its data, it will remain in the crosshairs as we embark on 2017. As a result, financial services CIOs will be faced with security decisions and challenges that will likely keep them up at night. While this isn’t an exhaustive list of challenges CIOs will face in the coming year, we’ve outlined several challenges we believe nearly all financial services organizations will have to face in 2017. Let’s take a closer look. 1….
Read MoreCredit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:10:43 +0000
The first day of Pwn2Own 2017 has come to a close, and so far, we’ve awarded $233,000 USD and 45 points for Master of Pwn. Today saw five successful attempts, one partial success, two failures, and two entries withdrawn. Our day started with the 360 Security team successfully using a jpeg2000 heap overflow, a Windows…
Read MoreCredit to Author: msft-mmpc| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 03:15:46 +0000
We are seeing a wave of new NSIS installers used in ransomware campaigns. These new installers pack significant updates, indicating a collective move by attackers to once again dodge AV detection by changing the way they package malicious code. These changes are observed in installers that drop ransomware like Cerber, Locky, and others. Cybercriminals have…
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