Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 23, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:00:54 +0000

We’re at the end of July and the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has published 873 advisories so far. That’s 273 advisories this month alone – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Earlier this week, ZDI announced the Targeted Incentive Program, which brings over $1,500,000 USD in special bounty awards for specific targets. With…

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Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 9, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:10:20 +0000

Earlier this week, I wrote a blog covering a couple of the statistics from the Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) first half of 2018. One of the stats that I didn’t cover is the increasing focus on enterprise applications. The team is seeing consistent growth in submissions of Microsoft and Apple vulnerabilities, but now they’re also…

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Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 2, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:51:43 +0000

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been up and running for a couple of months now and your organization is compliant. It’s time to take a little break – well, not so fast! Late last week, the State of California passed a new data privacy law called the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018….

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TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of June 25, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:18:45 +0000

I have never reverse engineered anything, but I did dismantle a Betamax VCR and put it back together without an instruction manual. My little brother liked to use the tape slot as a garage for his Hot Wheels® toy cars. We were usually able to take out the cars without any issues, but one day,…

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TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of June 18, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:51:39 +0000

As I pull together the list of zero-day filters for this blog, I see all types of vulnerabilities from various vendors. My interest is always piqued when I see a vulnerability affecting a security company. The Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) interest was also piqued when the researcher Pagefault submitted a Bitdefender vulnerability to the ZDI…

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TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 28, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:08:40 +0000

I ended up at an urgent care clinic earlier this week and found out I have strep throat. The doctor who examined me asked me what medicine I had taken prior to my visit to help alleviate my throat pain, to which I replied, “I took a multi-symptom liquid medicine because the pain was keeping…

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TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 21, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 12:00:45 +0000

Not that I needed to the reminder, but the influx of emails with the subject line “Updates to our Privacy Policy” from companies that I deal with (and some that I’ve never heard of!) means that TODAY is the day! The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has officially taken effect. Originally adopted by the European…

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TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 7, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 15:37:20 +0000

This week marked National Teacher Appreciation Week here in the United States. I was happy to see that many other countries celebrate educators in all the other months of the year. All of us have at least one teacher, instructor or professor who really made a difference in our lives. There are two for me,…

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