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Tomorrow starts the quite famous - and ever sold-out - security conference Shmoocon, held in Washington DC until Sunday. The keynote this year will be filled by Peiter Mudge Zatko, inventor of L0phtcrack and early pioneer of buffer overflows. Amon...

The first threat report of 2011 is up, you can find the full report on our FortiGuard Center. Below is a recap of events: There was a sharp incline in exploit activity for new vulnerabilities this period: we detected attempted exploit activity on 61...

It's the beginning of 2011, which means network security vendors’ threat predictions for the year to come have mysteriously appeared in their crystal balls by now. Making informed security predictions can be an easy or difficult task depending on th...

Our analyst, Ruchna Nigam, had been analyzing a sample of SymbOS/InSpirit.A!tr. SMS dropped in the victim's inbox by SymbOS/InSpirit.A!tr A couple of months ago, this malware received some attention in China (for example see here - use translation...

On this episode of Network World’s Security Threat Landscape, Derek Manky, a threat researcher at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs and Network World reporter Keith Shaw discuss the year in threats from 2010 and what companies and users can expect in the...

The last threat report for 2010 is up on our FortiGuard Center. Below is a recap from the report: As we enter the holiday season, spam rates continue to drop after a sharp decline following Bredolab's takedown in October/November 2010. Global spam r...

In January 2010, Fortinet’s FortiGuard threat researchers issued a report outlining their predictions for The Top 10 Security Trends for 2010. In a mid-year report published in June, “From prediction to prophecy: The 2010 threat landscape” the resear...