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Crowdsourcing Meets Cutting Edge Security Research in FortiGuard Labs

by RSS Jonas Tichenor  |  December 29, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
IDC is reporting again that Fortinet has the top market share in security appliances - This is great news for Fortinet researchers and customers alike. Here at Fortinet, we’ve been talking a lot about handoffs recently. Handoffs of data between modu...
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All the Cool Kids Have Next Gen Firewalls

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  December 12, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Just about everyone has a firewall of some sort. But does it really need to be “next gen”? Gartner and other industry analysts have made a lot of the “Next Generation Firewall” market, or NGFW for short. It isn’t just hype, though. Threats faced by...
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Taming the Higher Ed Security Beast

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  December 10, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
K12 has its share of security and regulatory challenges, but higher ed takes things to a whole new level. Last week I wrote about some of the security challenges K12 schools face, most of which revolve around balancing regulatory requirements, Inter...
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The Ed Tech Conundrum

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  December 03, 2014  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
If our kids spent as much time studying as they do bypassing firewalls, we’d be cranking out Rhodes Scholars left and right. I spent several years as one of those all-too-typical public school tech guys. I taught math and science most of the time an...
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Analysis of a JAR Obfuscated Malware Packer

by RSS Ruhai Zhang  |  December 01, 2014  |  Category: Security Research
Normal Java JAR or class format samples can be easily analyzed with Java decompiler tools, such as JAD and JD-GUI. Not so with those obfuscated ones, where decompiling results may be empty or not clear. When this happens, we need to then analyze the...
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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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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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