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Smart Cities: Could These IoT Design Flaws Put The Lights Out?
December 6, 2018
New research has highlighted an old problem: The Internet of Things isn't exactly secure. Hardly news, you might say, but the researchers from Trend Micro discovered that two popular IoT protocols are insecure by design. So insecure, indeed, that they are putting both 'Industry 4.0' smart factory implementations and smart cities at risk. In fact, these are the design flaws that could quite literally turn the lights out.
Top IoT messaging protocols are laughably insecure, Trend Micro research shows
December 4, 2018
Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro today published a report on the state of IoT security. The company found that two of the leading machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols have inherent design issues, and are frequently deployed in an insecure manner.
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How AWS Keeps Growing Customers, Partners and Revenue
November 29, 2018
NEWS ANALYSIS: AWS is on a $27 billion run rate growing 46 percent a year, CEO Andy Jassy said. Its customer and partner rolls continue to swell, and it's even taking its first steps into what until now has been a missing link: open source.
Researchers earn thousands for exposing mobile device exploits at Pwn2Own
November 14, 2018
Security researchers competing in the Pwn2Own competition in Tokyo this week earned a collective $325,000 for demonstrating new exploits on devices made by Samsung, Xiaomi, and Apple.
Pwn2Own, a series of contests run by the Zero Day Initiative, brings security researchers to compete to expose the most vulnerabilities in popular software and devices. The competition in Tokyo on Tuesday and Wednesday focused on mobile devices.
Linux CryptoMiners Are Now Using Rootkits to Stay Hidden
November 9, 2018
As the popularity of cryptocurrency rises, so does the amount of cryptominer Tojans that are being created and distributed to unsuspecting victims. One problem for cryptominers, though, is that the offending process is easily detectable due to their heavy CPU utilization.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — November 2, 2018
November 2, 2018
Trend Micro and NTT DoCoMo collaborated on an IoT network security service. It is built on the Trend Micro virtual network function suite on DoCoMo’s 5G open cloud.
‘Outlaw’ threat actor uses Shellbot variant to form new botnet
November 1, 2018
An unknown threat actor has been targeting organizations with botnet malware that communicates with its command-and-control server via the Internet Relay Chat application layer protocol. Nicknamed Outlaw, the hacking group developed the botnet as a Perl language-based variant of Shellbot, according to a Nov. 1 blog post from Trend Micro, whose researchers uncovered the threat. Shellbot is a trojan horse malware that’s typically installed on computers via the
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AI and machine learning take on cloud security woes
October 25, 2018
AI and machine learning won't magically solve all of the IT world's security problems, despite what some of the hype might suggest. Used sparingly, though, these technologies can make a security team's life much easier when operating at scale.
8 Threats That Could Sink Your Company
October 24, 2018
Security researchers warn of both new and re-emerging threats that can cause serious harm.

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Trend Micro redefines endpoint security with Trend Micro Apex One™
October 24, 2018
Trend Micro Apex One™ redefines endpoint security with the capabilities delivered as a single agent, with consistency across SaaS and on-premises deployments. This offering enhances automated detection and response and provides actionable insights that maximize security for customers and offers growth opportunities for the channel.
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