Zero Day Initiative

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:10:15 +0000

It’s that time of year again, when many will gather with their families, eat way too much, and catch those crazy Black Friday sales. I’ve been seeing “Black Friday” sales for almost two weeks now. Cyber Monday, which falls on the Monday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, is probably going to be coupled with news…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:46:19 +0000

The dreaded white, blank screen in Microsoft Word is taunting me, with its blinking cursor asking for words to be written. Just when I thought I wouldn’t get any inspiration for this week’s blog, inspiration came to me from beyond through our late CTO Raimund Genes. Earlier this week, the third annual Trend Micro Capture…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:36:42 +0000

I started a 14-day detox this week that eliminates common food allergens and hormones. It’s going to be two weeks of no fun, but it’s good to give your body a little reset. Plus, I’ll be done just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Eliminating toxins from your body can be compared to eliminating threats…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:00:09 +0000

Competition is inherent in our DNA. At a basic level, we compete for things like water and food. We also take it up a level and compete for wealth, fame and power. Some compete to be the best in sports, like my Houston Astros winning the 2017 World Series, and others compete to be the…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:00:32 +0000

Just like Bugs Bunny wears disguises to avert his enemies, there’s another “wascally” rabbit causing trouble in the form of ransomware. Bad Rabbit is the latest ransomware campaign hitting Eastern European countries with what looks like a variant of the Petya/NotPetya ransomware. Bad Rabbit spreads via fake Adobe Flash updates and also leverages some of…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:29:23 +0000

Various forms of fuzzing techniques that search for vulnerabilities in software programs have been around for several decades, but it can a tedious task, especially when looking at an entire enterprise application. Earlier this week, Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) vulnerability researcher Abdul-Aziz Hariri published a blog detailing how to fuzz the image conversion feature of…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:03:59 +0000

Even though “Patch Tuesday” isn’t supposed to exist anymore, here I am blogging about it. As I looked at the October updates from Microsoft, the usual suspects were there. But this month was a little different. We usually see critical vulnerabilities on the browser side, but Microsoft Office is in the spotlight with CVE-2017-11826 under…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:55:49 +0000

Have you ever read something online and you read a word as something else? Sometimes the weight of our eyelids makes our eyes deceive us after hours staring at a computer screen. As I stated to read a Zero Day Initiative blog published this week by Simon Zuckerbraun, instead of reading the word “Chakra,” which…