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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:16:22 +0000
Ignoring the configurations of your IoT devices puts your business at risk, making it important to secure your systems appropriately.
Credit to Author: Brian Gorenc| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:00:29 +0000
The 10th anniversary of Pwn2Own just successfully completed as the Zero Day Initiative spent $833,000 acquiring 51 different 0-day bugs. The event was filled with drama as vendors released their security patches the day before the contest, causing a number of entries to pull out immediately. Over the next three days, five additional entries would…
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:33:05 +0000
The bug potentially puts every Windows antivirus program at risk, but also hints at more fundamental problems with relying on AV. The post The Clever ‘DoubleAgent’ Attack Turns Antivirus Into Malware appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:00:45 +0000
In our 2016 security roundup report, A Record Year for Enterprise Threats, we talked about the vulnerability landscape during the year and what trends we saw. Let’s look at some of the key aspects of what we saw in 2016. 1. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) with support of their 3,000+ independent vulnerability researchers,…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:00:37 +0000
If you’ve ever bought anything online, checked your bank accounts through the app, or logged on to your favorite social media network, you’ve used a technology called SSL/TLS. The S in HTTPS. SSL/TLS (just to keep it simple, I’ll refer to as SSL) is the technology used to encrypt the communication between your browser and…
Credit to Author: Stephen Lawson| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 05:21:00 -0700
Most technologies go through a stage when everything seems possible. Personal computers in the early 1980s, the internet in the late 1990s and mobile apps around the beginning of this decade were like that.
But so was the first unboxing of a Galaxy Note 7. In time, either suddenly or gradually, reality sets in.
The internet of things still looks promising, with vendors and analysts forecasting billions of connected devices that will solve all sorts of problems in homes and enterprises. But the seams are starting to show on this one, too. As promising as the technology is, it has some shortcomings. Here are a few.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:18:43 +0000
Rep. Devin Nunes made some unprecedented statements today. But even if they’re true, they don’t prove what the White House wishes they did. The post Don’t Buy the Latest Trump Surveillance Hype appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:21:00 -0700
Developers of the popular LastPass password manager rushed to push out a fix to solve a serious vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to steal users’ passwords or execute malicious code on their computers.
The vulnerability was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy and was reported to LastPass on Monday. It affected the browser extensions installed by the service’s users for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
According to a description in the Google Project Zero bug tracker, the vulnerability could have given attackers access to internal commands inside the LastPass extension. Those are the commands used by the extension to copy passwords or fill in web forms using information stored in the user’s secure vault.
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