The threat landscape has changed often in the 22 years I’ve been working at Trend Micro and it will continue to change for many more years. We in cybersecurity are constantly at battle with hackers and threat actors who look to infect our customers using the many tactics available to them. Our job is to…
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Drupal is the latest platform to issue an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability. The issue (CVE-2018-7600) allows an attacker to execute code remotely with little effort. That’s bad. The Drupal team has been quick to respond and has already issued a patch and a mitigation for users unable to immediately patch. In addition to…
Read MoreIn 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,…
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Just a day before Pwn2Own kicks off its 10th anniversary, join us in looking at the security updates released by Google, Adobe, VMWare, Firefox, and Microsoft for the month of March 2017. It’s shaping up to be the largest Patch Tuesday in history, which is fitting to coincide with the largest Pwn2Own ever. tl:dr –…
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Over the last decade of Pwn2Own™ competitions, different people harbored different emotions towards the contest. It’s been referred to as a blood bath for browsers, although no actual blood has ever been spilt. It has helped launch people’s careers, or at the very least, it has helped increase their notoriety. It’s been accused of crushing…
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Welcome to the first Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) monthly patch review blog. This month, we put additional context around the major security patches released from Microsoft and Adobe. As the crisp autumn air descends upon us, it is time again to take a look at the security patches released by Adobe and Microsoft…
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I have been going to the same summer camp every year since I was about 5. Back then it was 4 single moms looking for a place to bring their kids for some outdoors fun and a hope that the kids would take part in an activity long enough to get through a chapter in…
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Like most boys I liked to play with trucks when I was little. I would always go over to by buddy Jeremey’s house to play and one day he pulled out this red, white and blue truck. He was giddy about his truck after a few minutes of pushing it around he said “check this…
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This month’s Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday is a huge release from both vendors. Microsoft has released fifteen bulletins that address a total of 33 vulnerabilities for their products. Adobe has released one security bulletin that addresses a total of 92 vulnerabilities for Adobe Acrobat and Reader. All total, Microsoft and Adobe patched 125 vulnerabilities…
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There’s been a recent development in the threat environment around the Remote Root Vulnerability in HID Door Controllers that we wanted to alert customers to. You might recall on March 30, 2016, our Zero Day Initiative published an advisory around a vulnerability that Ricky “HeadlessZeke” Lawshae with our DVLabs group discovered. This was for a…
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