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Wireless network infrastructure - for anyone in business, it’s a necessary evil and, perhaps ironically, one that isn’t short on infrastructure. You need a controller and wireless routers or access points - lots of...

Of 200 enterprise security professionals recently surveyed by Enterprise Strategy Group, 79 percent report Web application security attacks in the past year. In a late April Network World blog on the topic, Jon Oltsik, a princi...

Another Patch Tuesday is upon us, and both Microsoft and Adobe have important patches that you should implement right away if you’re impacted. Adobe’s big patch fixes a ColdFusion exploit that allows an attacker to...

“Is mobile malware really an issue?” is probably among the most frequent questions my friends ask me regarding my work. I usually like to answer indirectly with a graph as below: Figure 1. Evolution of malicious...

Are you using Internet Explorer 8? If so, you need to read on. A recent zero-day exploit being actively used in the wild and was likely the cause of a watering-hole attack that was launched from the US Department of Labor. To...

Some time ago, I analyzed two similar samples of Android/Smsilence.A!tr.spy, a fake Vertu application that spies on its victim. One of the samples was targeting a Japanese audience, while the other sample was for Korean end-use...

In this monthly video series focusing on the latest digital security threats, Keith Shaw and Fortinet’s Derek Manky discuss the recent Twitter hack on the Associated Press, the Spamhaus arrests and DNS amplification, and ...

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications applications are working their way beyond traditional utility, traffic control and telemedicine industries, as enterprises search for ways it can benefit their businesses despite some rea...

Just a few years ago, the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) to work trend was just starting to give IT administrators cause for concern. Flash forward to today: BYOD has not only reached a tipping point, but is accelerating at a di...

Deutsche Telekom’s interactive, real-time map of global cyberattacks reveals the bulk of recent attacks – 27.3 million in February alone – were against the Server Message Block (SMB), aka the Common Internet F...

Over the past two weeks, we’ve seen a big influx of Android malware samples coming our way from Korea. Upon closer examination of the samples, we saw some differences between them and decided to classify them into differ...

Access management is a crucial function for every organization with an Internet connectionand it’s a lot harder these days. The explosion of remote workers and mobile devices has complicated and confused once-rudimentary ...

Whenever something awful happens in the world, both the good and the bad come to the surface: bad guys doing bad things like we saw in Boston last week, and good guys rushing to random people’s aid in the wake of the expl...

At FortiGuard, we take our duty to protect our customers from threats, malware, zero-day exploits and other forms of cyberattacks very seriously. Our customers can sleep well knowing that 24 hours a day we are always on guard a...

A few days ago I received an interesting email message: Just your typical phishing email. Normally, I would just dump it into our signature automation processors and move on to the next piece of malicious code. This one was ...