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Windows Server 2008 End of Support: Are you Prepared?

July 26, 2019 admin Network, Security, Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Credit to Author: Pawan Kinger (Director, Deep Security Labs)| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:42:36 +0000

On July 14th, 2015, Microsoft’s widely deployed Windows Server 2003 reached end of life after nearly 12 years of support. For millions of enterprise servers, this meant the end of security updates, leaving the door open to serious security risks. Now, we are fast approaching the end of life of another server operating system –…

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Training Developers to Defend Against Software Attacks

December 7, 2017 admin Security, Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:30:49 +0000

Security Bugs – “The Root of all Evil” by Paul Ionescu, Security Architect Looking back at some of the famous security breaches of 2017 we find that they have been caused by software bugs. The WannaCry attack which impacted computers in 150 countries for an estimated cost of $4 billion used a memory flaw in…

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2018’s Biggest Attacks Will Stem from Known Vulnerabilities

December 5, 2017 admin Security, Targeted Attacks, Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Credit to Author: Martin Roesler (Director, Threat Research)| Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 13:00:12 +0000

Trend Micro just released its annual predictions report for next year. In this, we outline 8 ways the threat landscape is expected to evolve in 2018. While the predictions touch on a wide range of issues – from IoT to cyberpropaganda – the underlying theme is this, 2018’s biggest attacks will stem from known vulnerabilities….

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Our Exposed World – How Exposures Translate into Attacks

November 29, 2017 admin Security, Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Credit to Author: Natasha Hellberg (Senior Threat Researcher)| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:00:41 +0000

One of the questions I am asked often is why am I not more concerned about sophisticated attacks? Why do I not deeply investigate new exploits as they are released? To which I reply “because the old ones still cause more damage.” After 30 years of looking at the security of networks, the main trend…

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Our Exposed World – Exposed Cities in Europe

November 28, 2017 admin Security, Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Credit to Author: Natasha Hellberg (Senior Threat Researcher)| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:11:58 +0000

Today Trend Micro’s FTR team released more papers on our our continued investigation into our exposed world. Already having looked at the Exposed US, we now turn our attention to Europe, looking not only at Western European capitals, but deeper into three of its largest countries – Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Once again…

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Grading our Predictions: See how we fared in 1H 2017

September 18, 2017 admin cybercrime, ransomware, Security, Underground Economy, Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:00:36 +0000

In December of last year, we released eight predictions as to what we thought the 2017 cybersecurity landscape would hold. Although we’ve definitely observed new trends and attacks that we didn’t foresee, we’ve also seen several of our predictions play out as anticipated. With only three and a half months left in the year, we’re…