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Trend Micro Vice President of Cloud Research Mark Nunnikhoven told SCMagazine.com via emailed comments that the study “is interesting because of the gap it shows between the perception and reality for most organization's database security.”

“He made it very easy,” Jon Clay, of the security firm Trend Micro, told International Business Times. “It had its own administrative console that would track everything for you; you could pick and choose what components you wanted to install and utilize.”

Last week, researchers discovered two new security holes that could allow bad guys to create malicious files to launch within Apple’s media player. Trend Micro, the security research firm that found the vulnerability, said that it hasn’t yet found any evidence of exploits. But now that the findings are public, without promise of a fix from Apple, the risks are rising.

Security company TrendMicro blogged about the QuickTime vulnerability in a post titled "Urgent call to action." TrendMicro said it is unaware of any attacks that were made as a result of the QuickTime security bug, but it recommended deleting the program anyway.

The U.S. government has recommended that Windows PC users uninstall Apple Inc's QuickTime video player after security software maker Trend Micro Inc said on Thursday it had discovered two new bugs in the software.

"We will see much more successful attacks in other industries," said Ed Cabrera, vice president of cybersecurity strategy at Trend Micro.

Japanese security software maker Trend Micro Inc. said that it had warned Adobe that it had seen attackers exploiting the flaw to infect computers with a type of ransomware known as 'Cerber' as early as March 31.

“The problem is that hospitals aren't very mature when it comes to cybersecurity and dealing with robust, sophisticated online attacks,” Eduardo Cabrera, vice president for cybersecurity strategy at the security company Trend Micro Inc. in Irving, Texas. “A hospital needs health data in order to treat its patients. Hackers know there [are] major consequences if they don't act quickly.”

Kyle Wilhoit, who investigates these types of hacks for Trend Micro, said criminal hackers sometimes gain access to sensitive machinery by mistake.

If you’re curious about the teams and their attacks, security firm Trend Micro has recaps available for both days: