Zero Day Initiative

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 16:47:57 +0000

Although I’m still dreaming of the sandy beaches of Cancun, it’s time to get back to reality. Security vulnerabilities never take a holiday and this week is no exception. In addition to our normal Digital Vaccine (DV) package delivered earlier this week, we also issued an out-of-band DV package to address zero-day vulnerabilities for Intel…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 12:00:04 +0000

As you read this blog, I am probably sitting on a beach in Cancun, Mexico getting a nice tan and not thinking about security (well, maybe just a little). A couple of days before I left, I had to deal with the inevitable. It never fails – every time I am about to go on…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:26:11 +0000

There was a time when a person’s motivation to hack something was for financial reasons or for street cred. But now we’re seeing organizations that have other motivations. Pawn Storm is a cyber-espionage organization whose motives include foreign and domestic espionage, and influence on geopolitics. Trend Micro has been following the organization for quite some…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:23:45 +0000

I’ve never been one to adopt the latest fashion trends, aside from what I wore growing up in the 1980s. I wore shoulder pads, blue eyeliner, designer jeans, and even parachute pants. While I continue to rock my 80s hair to this day, other trends I thought were long gone are making a comeback. (Shoulder…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:36:54 +0000

Earlier this week marked the end of support for Windows Vista. This means anyone using Vista will no longer receiving new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content updates from Microsoft. If you’re unable to update your version of Windows, this is where virtual patching becomes very important….

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:41:41 +0000

Late last week, a buffer overflow vulnerability in IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003 servers, identified by CVE-2007-7269, was publicly disclosed. The vulnerability can be exploited since no bounds checking is done on headers matching a particular pattern within the PROPFIND method requests and successful attempts can lead to remote code execution on vulnerable targets. According…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:00:49 +0000

The world lost a funny, talented and wonderful soul late last week. I only knew him for a year, but Raimund Genes made those of us who came to Trend Micro via the TippingPoint acquisition feel right at home. I appreciated his candor, his love of life and his creative cocktails. He was a tremendous…

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:33:43 +0000

The 10th anniversary of Pwn2Own is now in the books! It was a crazy week at the CanSecWest Conference, full of drama with the biggest contest ever with teams from Asia, Europe and North America! It was a tight race with only three points separating first and second place. In the end, we saw a…