Security researchers are reporting new, serious vulnerabilities that, they claim, affect 95 percent of the Android phones out there. If that’s not alarming enough, according to the researchers, these vulnerabilities allow attackers to take complete control of your phone with zero interaction—you just need to receive a specially-made multimedia message (MMS). They’re calling this cluster…
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Overnight, Trend Micro’s research teams identified a new attack in the ongoing Pawn Storm campaign that is focused on high-profile, sensitive targets. The Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ has enabled us to identify email messages targeting a NATO member as well as a US defense organization. This latest Pawn Storm attack is also notable because…
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Trend Micro’s researchers have reported a third zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2015-5123) in Adobe Flash, a result from last week’s Hacking Team attack to the Adobe Security Team. Similar to the second Adobe Flash vulnerability discussed on Saturday, we have identified proof of concept (PoC) code; however, it has not yet been seen in active attacks or…
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On Wednesday, Adobe released a new version of Flash on Wednesday to address the zero-day vulnerability that was disclosed as part of the Hacking Team attack last weekend. Unfortunately, our researchers overnight have found another, new unpatched vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash that is a result of the Hacking Team attack. Our researchers have notified Adobe…
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Recently, Microsoft released seven security bulletins for Microsoft Windows Server 2003. This means there are now just two more update Tuesday releases for this long-serving server operating system: Tuesday, June 9 and Tuesday, July 14. After July 14, 2015, 62 days from now, there will be no more security updates for Windows Server 2003. In…
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As we quickly approach the end of support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in July, thousands of organizations are working to migrate to newer platforms to avoid the risk of exposing themselves to vulnerabilities. For many organizations, migrating in a timely manner can be especially challenging considering the limited amount of resources, monetary and otherwise,…
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In my opinion, only about 20 percent of an app’s features should be considered premium features that users should have to pay for. However, In most cases, users really only need the other 80 percent of features which should be free. But, to get those useful 80 percent of features, users have to dig into…
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I’m heading to the first 2015 AWS Summit in San Francisco, April 8 & 9. This is the first of 20 summits Trend Micro is sponsoring globally in the next few months, where we’ll be teaching developers and cloud architects how to build more securely in AWS. It was a year ago that the OpenSSL,…
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