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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 13:00:47 +0000

In 2016, the Trend Micro Volunteers Club in Taiwan partnered with the “Program the World” project to build excitement for computer programming for students across Taiwan. “Program the World” is a nonprofit organization that provides programming courses to underprivileged children who live in remote areas of Taiwan, who are limited in access to this type…

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February 24, 2017 admin

SHA-1: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 Reasons Not To Worry

Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 20:52:12 +0000

The SHA-1 hash function is broken. This isn’t news. What is news is that a practical attack has been demonstrated Keep in mind that “practical” is used in cryptographers terms and those terms don’t necessarily have an impact on your daily IT use. The news has been making the rounds as IT teams, journalists, and…

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February 24, 2017 admin

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

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:45:55 +0000

I’ve been fascinated with the rise and fall of exploit kits, especially the ones that are really popular that disappear seemingly overnight. Angler was one that at one point, contributed 59.5% in the total exploit kit activity for 2015. But now it’s presumed dead as of June 2016 after the arrest of a hacker gang….

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February 23, 2017 admin

Fake apps, fake games: An update on gaming malware

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:27:32 +0000

Mobile gaming malware is a huge concern – and thus it’s important to take note of how these kinds of malicious programs can be guarded against.

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February 23, 2017 admin

Healthcare Under Attack: Trend Micro Reveals All in New Report

Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:00:21 +0000

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) around the world are under attack. The data they store and process has become a valuable commodity on the cybercriminal underground and has even been linked to nation state attacks. In 2015, more than 113 million records were stolen in the U.S. alone, according to the Department of Health and Human Services….

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February 17, 2017 admin

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of February 13, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:50:12 +0000

Love was in the air earlier this week. This past Tuesday was Valentine’s Day and what should have been Microsoft’s “Patch Tuesday,” but it was reported last month that Patch Tuesday would never be the same as Microsoft moves to a process that includes an online searchable database and automatic updates. I was wondering what…

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February 15, 2017 admin

Devices Exposing Critical Industries and U.S. Cities

Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:06:15 +0000

As connected devices continue to intertwine with daily life, the security of those devices and the information they process is a growing conversation. To gain a better understanding of cyber assets exposed to the internet, Trend Micro researchers took a comprehensive look at the exposed assets in the 10 largest U.S. cities – New York…