High Performance Network Security, Enterprise and Data-Center Firewall

High Performance Network Security, Enterprise and Data-Center Firewall

A Deeper Look At Logjam - And Why You Should Care

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  May 29, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
The so-called Logjam vulnerability has been making headlines in both the tech and mainstream press since it was announced last week and for good reason. Potentially tens of thousands of websites and mail servers (as well as the users who access them)...
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Q&A With CompTIA - Lessons For the Channel In IT Security

by RSS Esther Shein  |  May 28, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
The non-profit Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) issues a semi-annual study on Trends in IT Security, which looks at what is happening in the security market and ways end users and channel firms should be adjusting to the new securi...
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Turning Up the Firewall Performance To 11

by RSS Glen Kemp  |  May 26, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
[Editor’s Note: While this post is primarily concerned with Fortinet firewalls, particularly the FortiGate 3700D, it also serves as useful background for anyone considering different deployment scenarios for data center firewalls.] Nestling so...
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Two New Hacks This Week, Some Feeling More Vulnerable Than Others

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  May 22, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Two new high-profile hacks this week collectively exposed millions of users’ data, both more worrying than what has become a run-of-the-mill credit card breach. The reasons for concern, of course, are a bit different. The first breach, announc...
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Lend Me Your Biometric Ears

by RSS Evan Schuman  |  May 21, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Security has always been a game of balance. The more strict the security, the better the protection it delivers. But that is only true up to the point where users resist, in which case they stop using the security measure and the protection then drop...
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The Bogus Security Claim, Chimney-Protection Style

by RSS Evan Schuman  |  May 20, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
As if security advocates didn't have enough headaches, there is a frightening trend of security arguments that sound like they're meaningful but are in reality protecting something that isn't a threat and that users don't care about....
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Even In the Post-Snowden Era, Not Every Public-Private Collaboration Is Bad

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  May 19, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Trust is a tricky thing. It’s hard to gain, easy to lose, and exceptionally difficult to win back. Following the Edward Snowden disclosures and ongoing wrangling in Congress and the courts about privacy, monitoring, and data collection, trust b...
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SPSS Vulnerability Is Tough To Exploit But Stakes Are High For Client Base

by RSS Alex Harvey  |  May 18, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
SPSS is one of the most widely used statistical analysis packages in the world. It was first released in 1968 and gained considerable traction among social sciences researchers. It grew steadily in popularity, especially among academics, but when IBM...
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Rombertik: A Personal Curiosity

by RSS Raul Alvarez  |  May 15, 2015  |  Category: Security Research
If you haven’t heard of Rombertik, you probably had a nice vacation somewhere. A few weeks ago, Rombertik made its rounds in the news everywhere. Lots of articles and blogs were written about it, so out of curiosity, I had a look into it myself...
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I Want My CMS

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  May 15, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
“I want my MTV...” One of the most iconic lines from one of the greatest rock songs of the 80’s, “Money For Nothing”. OK, not just from the 80’s, but of all time. But rock nostalgia aside, this is the line that pop...
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Tinba, the Pied Piper Leading your Banking Credentials into the Hands of Hackers

by RSS Collin Tam  |  May 14, 2015  |  Category: Security Research
Information is always useful to someone. For 'Tinba', like many botnets, that information could be browsing data, login credentials, or even banking information, all decided by the botnet master and changed to whatever they desire at any time...
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Should New WHO Disease Naming Guidelines Also Be Applied To Malware?

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  May 13, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
In 2009, Egypt slaughtered all 300,000 pigs in the country in response to the worldwide pandemic of so-called “swine flu”, or H1-N1. Some estimates put US pork industry losses at millions of dollars per week as major world markets stopped...
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Still Running XP-Based Or Other Obsolete Point-Of-Sale? Move On ASAP!

by RSS Daniel Dern  |  May 07, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
If the Point of Sale (POS) system in your retail business is still running on an older operating system, e.g., Microsoft Windows XP or anything else pre-Win 7, there are a number of compelling reasons why it's long past time to change that. And...
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It’s Not Just WordPress - Joomla! VirtueMart Extension Gets Its Own XSS Vulnerability

by RSS Alex Harvey  |  May 06, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities have become fairly commonplace in web applications and crop up frequently in content management systems like WordPress and Joomla! While WordPress is the most popular CMS on the Web, and therefore a popular...
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