Are students prepared for real-world cyber curveballs?

With a projected “skills gap” numbering in the millions for open cyber headcount, educating a diverse workforce is critical to corporate and national cyber defense moving forward. However, are today’s students getting the preparation they need to do the cybersecurity work of tomorrow? To help...

In-the-wild iOS Exploit Chain 5

Posted by Ian Beer, Project Zero TL;DR This exploit chain is a three way collision between this attacker group, Brandon Azad from Project Zero, and @S0rryMybad from 360 security. On November 17th 2018, @S0rryMybad used this vulnerability to win $200,000 USD at the TianFu Cup PWN competition...

5G Wireless Network Risk Factors

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released an infographic on 5G wireless network risk factors. Although 5G technology will bring capacity, reliability, and security improvements, it may also introduce supply chain, deployment, network security, and competition and choi...

Celebrating the Next Generation of Technology Innovators

At Trend Micro, it’s our mission to secure the connected world. However, we want to go beyond the boundaries of the cybersecurity industry to support and learn from the technology innovators of tomorrow. That’s what our venture arm, Trend Forward Capital, is all about. As part of these efforts, w...

Apple Defends Parental Control App Removal Amid Backlash

Apple is defending its decision to take down several highly popular parental control apps amidst a firestorm of backlash, saying it did so for “privacy and security” reasons. Apple came under scrutiny this weekend after a New York Times article alleged that the phone giant had unfairly removed or...

Firefox and Edge Fall to Hackers on Day Two of Pwn2Own

Hackers took down the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers on Thursday at Pwn2Own, the annual hacking conference held in tandem with CanSecWest, as the competition continued for a second day. The dynamic hacking duo of Amat Cama and Richard Zhu, which make up team Fluoroacetate, had anothe...

CyberAegis Aether Competition Team Reflects Bright Future for Young Women in STEM & Cybersecurity

I am always excited to get involved in conversations around getting more young women into STEM earlier. Recently, I was able to catch up with the members of the CyberAegis Aether team, an all-girls, middle school cybersecurity competition team. Here is what they had to say: Tell us a little bit...

Hackers Take Down Safari, VMware and Oracle at Pwn2Own

Hackers took down Apple Safari, VMware Workstation, and Oracle VirtualBox on Wednesday, the first day of Pwn2Own, the annual hacking competition held in tandem with the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. Contestants with the team of Fluoroacetate Amat Cama and Richard Zhu were the first to hit p...

Uber Deployed 'Surfcam Spyware' in Australia to Crush the Competition – Report

A rogue employee at rideshare behemoth Uber created and deployed a piece of information-gathering software in order to help his company get a leg up on the local competition in Australia, according to a report. The so-called “secret spyware program” was dubbed Surfcam, and was developed by the...

Fraudulent Tactics on Amazon Marketplace

Fascinating article about the many ways Amazon Marketplace sellers sabotage each other and defraud customers. The opening example: framing a seller for false advertising by buying fake five-star reviews for their products. Defacement: Sellers armed with the accounts of Amazon distributors sometim...

Microsoft AI competition explores the next evolution of predictive technologies in security

Predictive technologies are already effective at detecting and blocking malware at first sight. A new malware prediction competition on Kaggle will challenge the data science community to push these technologies even furtherto stop malware before it is even seen. The Microsoft-sponsored competiti...

Apple and Samsung fined millions for intentionally slowing down old smartphones

By Waqas The Italian Competition Authority AGCM has fined Apple and Samsung a whopping 5 million Euros $5.7m - £4.4m and 10 million Euros $11.4m - £8.84m. for what it called "planned obsolescence" of their smartphones. If you have ever noticed how your old iPhone or Samsung device had performance...

Mobile matters: How to ready your apps for the holiday shopping spike

While more consumers now shop on smartphones, retailers have a lot of work to do to make mobile shopping easy. Developers must account for the wide variety of mobile hardware and software, take into account how consumers use their phones in stores and ensure easy checkout. The cheer and good...

Fighting the Skills Gap Via Industry Leading Research and Inspiring Events

By Kevin Simzer Among the headline-grabbing reports of election hacking, nation-state raids on utilities firms, and mega-data breaches, few outside the industry ask the question: Did the cybersecurity skills shortage play a part? It’s impossible to say for sure. However, what we do know is that...

Mylobot Botnet Emerges with Rare Level of Complexity

An unusual botnet dubbed Mylobot has emerged, percolating up from the Dark Web – and displaying a never-before-seen level of complexity in terms of the sheer breadth of its various tools, especially evasion techniques. According to an analysis posted on Tuesday by Tom Nipravsky, a security...

A View of Upcoming Threat Coverage from Pwn2Own 2018

This blog will be updated throughout the competition so keep tracking for the latest updates on upcoming threat coverage! St. Patrick’s Day is coming up later this week, but the contestants at Pwn2Own 2018 will need more than luck on their side. They will need to dive into their expert hacking...

Post-Quantum Algorithms

NIST has organized a competition for public-key algorithms secure against a quantum computer. It recently published all of its Round 1 submissions. Details of the NIST efforts are here. A timeline for the new algorithms is here...

Trend Micro Capture the Flag: Train security professionals – Close the skills gap

Businesses today face a security challenge: Protecting their systems and data is vital, but there aren’t enough qualified employees who can successfully make that happen. Similarly, young cybersecurity professionals need to overcome the gap between what is learned in a classroom and the practical...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of August 28, 2017

The only topic I can bring up this week is the devastation in Texas caused by Hurricane Harvey. Many cities have been completely destroyed and to add insult to injury, Harvey moved back to the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall again in Louisiana. Catastrophic flooding has left tens of thousands...

Hack with Metasploit: Announcing the UNITED 2017 CTF

Got mad skillz? Want mad skillz? This year at Rapid7s annual UNITED Summit, were hosting a first-of-its-kind Capture the Flag CTF competition. Whether youre a noob to hacking or a grizzled pro, youll emerge from our 25-hour CTF with more knowledge and serious bragging rights. Show off your 1337...