This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days.

Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back each Friday for highlights of the goings-on each week!

 

Revisiting CVE-2015-3823: Mediaserver Bug Leads To Heap Overflow, Too

Issues surrounding the Android mediaserver component continue. Google recently raised the severity of this vulnerability to “critical,” indicating that arbitrary code execution is possible. As with other recent Android vulnerabilities, this could lock a hacked device in an endless reboot loop.

The Cybersecurity Market is Expected to Jump to $170.21 Billion by 2020

The latest research from MarketResearch.com forecasts the global cybersecurity market to jump from $106.32 billion in 2015 to $170.21 billion by 2020.

FuTuRology: Watch Out for Literally Crippling Healthcare Technologies

In this is the third post of the “FuTuRology” project, a blog series where the Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research (FTR) team predicts the future of popular technologies. In the last two installments of this series, we introduced our future technology threat landscape project and started to paint a picture of how the healthcare industry might look like in a few years.

What the 1H 2015 Mobile Threat Landscape Looks Like

The mobile landscape in the first half of 2015 is highlighted by vulnerabilities found on the operating systems and apps, including ones that came with the devices themselves. A number of notable incidents and cases over the last few months have shown how these vulnerabilities were used as avenues for exploitation.

The Senate Delayed Cybersecurity Legislation Again

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed suspicions that it would once again delay action on a long-stalled cybersecurity bill, putting any progress on the measure off until after the August recess and possibly far beyond. 

Fresh off the OPM Breach, Federal Tech Officers are Discussing Threats with Cybersecurity Leaders

Federal agencies send their technology officers to cybersecurity conferences so they can gauge the industry and devise strategies for their own systems. Many were in attendance for “The Future of Security and Compliance in a Hostile World” on Wednesday at the Willard Intercontinental in Washington. 

Trend Micro Deep Security 9.6 Was Launched

Deep Security 9.6 was recently launched and builds upon a rich history of being the only true single security platform with advanced threat protection capabilities built to work seamlessly with key virtualization and cloud providers including VMware, AWS and Microsoft Azure. 

Lawyers Believe CIOs and CISOs can Expect to be Sued in Increasing Numbers Due to Breaches

In today’s rapidly changing legal landscape, global companies confront a litany of cyber security issues domestic and international. One issue quickly rising to the top is CIO and CISO cyber security liability.

Nearly 2 Million Global Cybersecurity Professionals will be Needed by 2017

There’s a growing need for more female cybersleuths. Not only can women fill the estimated nearly 210,000 vacant cybersecurity positions in the United States, they can also bring new perspectives.

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