High Performance Network Security, Enterprise and Data-Center Firewall

High Performance Network Security, Enterprise and Data-Center Firewall

Patented Firmware Repels Large-Scale DDoS attacks on DNS Services

by RSS Hemant Jain  |  March 30, 2016  |  Category: Security Research
DNS-Related DDoS Attacks Are on the Rise Domain Name System (DNS)-related distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise because hacktivists and cyberterrorists are finding it easy to use botnets to stage large volumetric reflection an...
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Internet In Danger: Analysis of ISC Bind Patch (part 1)

by RSS Dehui Yin  |  March 29, 2016  |  Category: Security Research
The Internet Systems Consortium just released a couple of days ago a new patch (version 9.10.3-P4) to fix some issues in the most popular DNS server software in the world. The release note is available at https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01363/81/...
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Unique Perspectives on the Threat landscape of Today’s Healthcare Networks

by RSS Ryan Edwards  |  March 29, 2016  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
A recently released executive level report by Fortinet included a brief overview of key findings resulting from Fortinet’s Cyber Threat Assessment Program (CTAP) running across a multitude of organizations nationwide for a period of four mont...
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Insomni'hack 2016

by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  March 25, 2016  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
You missed Insomni'hack? You shouldn't have: although there are now something like 700 attendees, it's still a friendly and well organized hacking conference with an interesting mix between wild hackers, CTOs, and CISOs (some being hacke...
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What's cooking? Dridex’s New and Undiscovered Recipes

by RSS Wayne Chin Yick Low  |  March 23, 2016  |  Category: Security Research
Because of the recent outbreak of the Locky ransomware, Dridex has become synonymous with the distribution of ransomware more generally. However, Dridex is still taking good care of its notorious original business– banking Trojans. While p...
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Cybersecurity Skills Shortage Is Not Just About Having the Right Products and Technology; It’s About Solving the People Challenge

by RSS Stephan Tallent  |  March 22, 2016  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
It’s evident that demand for trained and experienced cybersecurity professionals far exceeds supply. With 46% of organizations now claiming that they have a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills, significantly up from last year at just 2...
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Unseen Dangers—Obfuscation Tools & Cybercrime

by RSS Derek Manky  |  March 21, 2016  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Ever since the arrival of advanced persistent threats, obfuscation technologies have existed to help cybercriminals evade security detection and tracing. It’s an ongoing evolution of technology on the bad guys’ end. It really started wit...
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Nemucod Adds Ransomware Routine

by RSS Roland Dela Paz  |  March 16, 2016  |  Category: Security Research
It came to our attention that a new, rather peculiar version of Nemucod has been recently landing on users. Nemucod is a well-known JavaScript malware family that arrives via spam email and downloads additional malware to PCs. Most recently, Nemucod...
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Understanding Consumer Behaviour from Wi-fi Insights

by RSS Fortinet  |  March 14, 2016  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
We have all embraced online searching and shopping. The days of driving around town to compare costs or referring to the most current newspaper advertisement for a bargain have long gone. Today’s consumer reaches out via the Internet on a varie...
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Security is at the Top of Healthcare Providers’ “Must-Do” Lists—Or It Should Be

by RSS Ryan Witt  |  March 10, 2016  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
“Houston, we have a problem.” This is not news to healthcare organizations, whether they are in Houston, Boston, St. Louis or San Francisco. 2015 was a banner year in healthcare, for all the wrong reasons. The increasing number of attacks...
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10 Simple Ways to Mitigate DNS Based DDoS Attacks

by RSS Hemant Jain  |  March 10, 2016  |  Category: Security Research
UDP floods are used frequently for larger bandwidth DDoS attacks because they are connectionless and it is easy to generate UDP packets using scripts.  DNS uses UDP primarily and under some circumstances uses TCP. Because of the usage of UDP pr...
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Centralised vs Distributed FortiGuard Updates

by RSS Glen Kemp  |  March 09, 2016  |  Category: Security 101
Firewall deployments can be characterised by episodes of intense activity interspersed with long periods of “I assume it’s working ok”. However, between the cutover and Business as Usual (BAU) transition the long term feed and water...
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Integrating Retail Customer Experience Through WiFi Analytics

by RSS Fortinet  |  March 09, 2016  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Every smartphone these days is equipped with ways to connect to WiFi. When your phone is looking for networks to join, it’s detectable by local routers. In a retail store, there’s often additional equipment that can detect your phone&rsqu...
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CryptoWall, TeslaCrypt and Locky: A Statistical Perspective

by RSS Roland Dela Paz  |  March 08, 2016  |  Category: Security Research
It’s been over two weeks since we reported about Locky and predicted that it will be a major player in the ransomware scene. We decided to check our Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) telemetry statistics for CryptoWall, TeslaCrypt and Locky two...
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