Announcing the Fourth Annual Flare-On Challenge

The fourth annual Flare-On Challenge – the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team’s yearly reverse engineering contest – is scheduled to kick off on Sept. 1, 2017, at 8pm ET. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring reverse engineers, malware analysts, and security...

Vulnerability Management Market Disruptors

Gartners recent vulnerability management report provides a wealth of insight into vulnerability management VM tools and advice for how to build effective VM programs. Although VM tools and capabilities have changed since the reports last iteration in 2015, interestingly one thing hasnt: Gartners...

A week in security (July 24 – July 30)

Last week, we recognized one of the unsung heroes of our times, explained what the Dark Web is, revealed challenges one of our experienced when putting together his conference presentation for SteelCon, revealed the potential dangers of smart toys to kids, and made a prediction following the...

Did you see what the Black Hat newsletter said about Trend Micro?

This year’s Black Hat® conference is right around the corner. Now, amazingly, in its 20th year, Black Hat is one of the world’s top gathering of information security professionals. Friends in the industry refer to this as “Security Summer Camp” and it’s true, between the training, briefings,...

Top Insider Threat Concern? Careless Users. [Survey]

It’s been a busy year thus far in the cybercrime world with the stakes seeming to grow higher every month. Just last month, insider threats were making headlines with a news report that Reality Winner, a contractor for the National Security Association with a top-level security clearance, leaked...

Customer Case Study: Stonewall Kitchen Prevents a New Trend in Malware with Carbon Black

In the retail industry, a new level of security and compliance challenges have emerged making IT’s role even more pivotal and challenging. This is certainly the case for Stonewall Kitchen, creator of specialty food products. Since the company does all of their own manufacturing, distribution,...

Collaborative Storytelling at Rapid7

Great ideas can come from anywhere! At Rapid7, we design and develop wonderful products we hope you think so too!. Everything here starts with stories. Storytelling matters: The ability to tell a compelling story is the defining quality of human nature. Storytelling is just as important in busine...

Bridging the Skills Gap with Trend Micro’s Capture the Flag (CTF) Competition

We all know the IT security industry is suffering from chronic skills gaps and shortages around the world. In the US things are no different, with an estimated talent shortfall of around 40,000 jobs for information security analyst roles alone. While various initiatives have been proposed, few ha...

Getting started in sales: Q&A with Eric Erston

Today we're excited to introduce a key leader in Rapid7s sales organization: Eric Erston is Rapid7's senior vice president of sales for the Americas region. He has extensive experience in a variety of sales roles, including leading go-to-market functions for mergers and acquisitions. Prior to...

A Growing Symphony of Security Analytics Tools Needs Careful Orchestration

Security analytics tools available to companies are increasing rapidly. However, cyber incident and vulnerability prevention, detection, response, and recovery times remain significant challenges as the types of attacks and attack vectors increase. Newer cyber analytics using machine learning are...

Why “Just Patch It!” Isn’t as Easy as You Think

At the Zero Day Initiative ZDI, we see patches in a way few do. We get the initial report from a researcher, we verify the issue internally, we notify the vendor, and finally we publish some details once a patch is released. Those patches represent the best method for preventing cyber attacks...

WannaCry & The Reality Of Patching

Editors note: For the latest WannaCry information as it relates to Trend Micro products, please read this support article. The WannaCry ransomware variant of 12-May-2017 has been engineered to take advantage of the most common security challenges facing large organizations today. Starting with on...

Paper Spells Out Tech, Legal Options for Encryption Workarounds

FBI Director James Comey’s dogged attachment to the argument that strong encryption hinders criminal investigations by law enforcement is heading into its third year with little signs of abatement. That insistence comes despite three years of arguments to the contrary from security experts, who...

Google reCaptcha Bypass Technique Uses Google's Own Tools

A proof of concept bypass of Google’s reCaptcha V2 verification system, posted online Tuesday, uses Google’s own web-based tools to pull off the skirting of the system. The tool dubbed ReBreakCaptcha “lets you easily bypass Google’s reCaptcha v2 anywhere on the web,” according to the author of th...

CVE-2016-4316: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in WSO2 Carbon 4.4.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 setName parameter to identity-mgt/challenges-mgt.jsp; the 2 webappType or 3 httpPort parameter to webapp-list/webappinfo.jsp; the 4 dsName or 5 descriptio...

Mobile Application Security Training Platform: Security Shepherd

The OWASP Security Shepherd project is a web and mobile application security training platform. Security Shepherd has been designed to foster and improve security awareness among a varied skill-set demographic. The aim of this project is to take AppSec novices or experienced engineers and sharpen...

Crack for Charity — GCHQ launches 'Puzzle Book' Challenge for Cryptographers

The UK's Signals Intelligence and Cyber Security agency GCHQ has launched its first ever puzzle book, challenging researchers and cryptographers to crack codes for charity. Dubbed "The GCHQ Puzzle Book," the book features more than 140 pages of codes, puzzles, and challenges created by expert cod...

Yahoo Slams Email Surveillance Story: Experts Demand Details

Bombshell revelations that Yahoo conducted mass email surveillance is raising hackles among legal, civil liberties and security experts that demand Yahoo and the U.S. government come clean. Meanwhile Yahoo challenged the accuracy of Tuesday’s report by Reuters. “The article is misleading. We...

IoT Botnets Are The New Normal of DDoS Attacks

If you’ve been on the wrong end of what passes for a modern-day DDoS attack, you’re well familiar with the firepower of the almighty DVR. That’s right, the innocuous set-top box responsible for the posterity of your Game of Thrones seasons 1-6 is behind some of the biggest swarming attacks agains...

Attributing Advanced Attacks Remains Challenge For Researchers

Amid the connections being made between the Russian government and the attack on the Democratic National Committee DNC, researchers on Tuesday reminded us of the challenges security experts have in correctly attributing advanced attacks. In a wide-ranging Reddit AMA, members of Kaspersky Lab’s...