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Security At Grandma’s House

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  November 27, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Even for companies that don’t normally allow users to work from home, the holidays practically beg for remote work...and plenty of security threats. Earlier this week, Fortinet published a blog and infographic on ways to secure your holiday shopping...
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AGbot Attacks Internet VNC Servers

by RSS He Xu  |  November 26, 2014  |  Category: Security Research
Update: After further analysis, we found that this bot might attempt to retrieve another module from an FTP server once it is able to connect successfully. We will update you once we have more information. Last week, our FortiGuard Labs Threat Int...
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5 Things You Need To Know About Regin

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  November 25, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Details are still emerging on the cyberespionage malware known as Regin, but it’s clear that this is no ordinary Trojan. Regin is not new software, despite making headlines this weekend with a myriad of news outlets citing Symantec’s recent white pa...
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Secure Your Holiday Shopping

by RSS Richard Henderson  |  November 24, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
In the United States, families will soon be traveling by plane, train and automobile to be with their loved ones to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. Large feasts will be prepared, football games will be viewed, and parades watched. One other g...
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How Do I Protect Against External Attacks?

by RSS Victoria Martin  |  November 22, 2014  |  Category: Security Q & A
In this entry of the layered security series, we look at layer 3, the network layer. The network layer Network layer security focuses on external threats that are able to bypass the firewall layer. Your FortiGate has two main features that deal w...
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The Future of CyberSecurity is Innovation; Fortinet Leads the Way

by RSS Jonas Tichenor  |  November 21, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
It’s been a monumental week for network security leader, Fortinet (FTNT). Tuesday, CEO Ken Xie and his team rang the closing bell on the NASDAQ, 5 years to the day they celebrated their IPO. Meantime, CFO Drew Del Matto sat down with The Street’s Jil...
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Security Digest: November 20th

by RSS Michael Perna  |  November 21, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
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Denver Biz Tech Expo - Security Goes Mainstream

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  November 20, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Fortinet recently sponsored an expert panel on cybersecurity at the Denver Biz Tech Expo - One takeaway? Security talks aren’t just for hackers anymore. Fortinet researchers participate in a lot of conferences. Many, like this year’s Hack.Lu in Luxe...
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Getting Serial on an IP Camera

by RSS Ruchna Nigam  |  November 19, 2014  |  Category: Security Research
I recently found myself requiring to downgrade the firmware on the lab's in-house IP camera. Attempts at trying to do so using the 'Upgrade Device Firmware' utility from the UI (pictured below) failed. (Might sound counterintuitive, but it was also...
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The Nerdiest Unboxing Ever?

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  November 18, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Ok, it’s not as sexy as unboxing the latest iDevice, but I’m pretty excited about the new Fortinet equipment that just arrived today. Unboxing blogs and videos are rarely anything to get excited about. A reviewer showing off a new toy that a manufac...
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Recslurp Features

by RSS He Xu  |  November 17, 2014  |  Category: Security Research
At the end of October, a bot that we have not tracked before appeared in our system. Our initial analysis of its features got our attention as it revealed some behaviour that are considered dangerous to infected users. After tracking its history usi...
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Security Digest: November 14th

by RSS Michael Perna  |  November 14, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
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The Rebirth of Dofoil

by RSS He Xu  |  November 12, 2014  |  Category: Security Research
Dofoil, also known as Smoke Loader, is a modularized botnet that has existed for a few years. Since 2013, we have not received any new variants of this bot and the command-and-control (C&C) servers of its previous variants are no longer accessibl...
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Inside Hack.Lu 2014

by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  November 10, 2014  |  Category: Security Research
The main issue with Hack.Lu this year was that there were too many interesting things in parallel: interesting talks, workshops, CTF... :) Talks 19 year old Filippo Valsorda talked about the setup of https://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ (heartbleed test...
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