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High Performance Network Security, Enterprise and Data-Center Firewall

Stakes Are High For PII

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  June 27, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Personally identifiable information — the words are tossed around constantly in the news, by security folk and, with increasing frequency, by any organization forced to disclose a data breach. When used in the latter context, personally identifia...
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Will Flame burn itself out?

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  June 25, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Over the last month, the Flame virus quite literally burst onto the scene with its technical complexity and sophistication that outpaced the most advanced pieces of malware to date. Weighing in at 20 MB, the piece of code, dubbed Flame, wowed the sec...
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Controlling Android / Zitmo by SMS commands

by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  June 21, 2012  |  Category: Security Research
A new sample of Zitmo is out, pretending to be an Android Security Suite. Like others in Zitmo, the malware is a SMS spy: it forwards incoming SMS message to a remote server. This particular sample responds to a few basic SMS commands we have reverse...
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StarCraft culture to understand Android

by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  June 19, 2012  |  Category: Security Research
Zerg Rush - Image courtesy of http://sheezyart.com/art/view/1244706/ As you probably do not know, I am a StarCraft II player. I really hadn't expected it to be of any use to my job as an analyst, until yesterday where I read this tweet: "I don't e...
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Study: Gen-Y Would Break Rules For BYOD

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  June 19, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Can you imagine life without your T.V.? Or a work environment without printers or desktop PCs? It might go without saying that as technology becomes more accepted, it also transitions from privilege to right for users. A recent Fortinet study ill...
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How to Fix Today’s Cybersecurity Bills

by RSS Thomas Porter  |  June 18, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
There are, according to http://www.govtrack.us, 10,602 bills and resolutions currently before the United States Congress. Of those, 79 deal specifically with "cybersecurity." Normally, only about 5% of all of the above bills and resolutions will ever...
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Mission Facebook: Three Attack Weapons

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  June 15, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
When Facebook broke all records with its $100 billion IPO, security experts wondered if the news would make it an even bigger target for hackers. But let’s face it, with the world’s largest social network climbing toward a billion users—around one s...
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Mitigating Wireless Chokepoints

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  June 14, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
****Metaphors aside, it probably goes without saying that office workers are running on more bandwidth these days. More than ever, in between bouts of actual office productivity, desk jockeys are using their systems and mobile devices to shop, play g...
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IPv6 Sets Stage For New Security Issues, Part II

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  June 13, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Thank goodness for IPv6. The comprehensive kickoff June 6 to the updated Internet Protocol version 6, (IPv6) will no doubt open up an almost infinite number of Internet addresses, ensuring that we all remain online for generations to come. Howev...
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Android malware takes to the cloud

by RSS Ruchna Nigam  |  June 13, 2012  |  Category: Security Research
With the migration of most services to the cloud, some enterprising Android malware developers have decided to profit from this. Google provides a service known as Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) that allows developers to send messages from Google'...
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IPv6 Sets Stage For New Security Issues

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  June 11, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
With the World Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) launch safely under our belts, organizations will inevitably be faced with the daunting task of upgrading every device connected to their network—no small task for any company that has an Internet con...
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The Advanced Features of the Flame Malware

by RSS Raul Alvarez  |  June 07, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
It’s been a little more than a week since Flame was first identified. The FortiGuard Labs team posted a couple of earlier stories here and here. What we know now is that Flame is among the most advanced pieces of malware we’ve ever encountered. The...
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A Few Thoughts on World IPv6 Launch Day

by RSS Patrick Bedwell  |  June 06, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
The sun is now setting on World IPv6 Launch Day, which represents the next major step in the continued evolution of the Internet. Hopefully, you didn’t notice a thing. Wednesday’s global event was the logical follow-up to last year’s IPv6 Day, where...
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Tracking Android/Foncy

by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  June 06, 2012  |  Category: Security Research
Denis Maslennikov reported a new SMS trojan, Android/Mania, which emanates from France. This malware hasn't any outstanding functionality - it silently sends SMS messages to a short number, something we only see too often in mobile malware - except i...
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