Neil MacDonald, a vice president at Gartner, wrote in a blog last week the idea of sandboxing potentially malicious content and applications isn’t new, but interest in this type of approach – particularly on Windows desktops – is on the rise. A growing number of virtualization and abstraction techniques available on Windows, he wrote, create isolation to provide security separation. FortiGuard Labs describes sandboxing as a practice employed by security technology to separate running progra…
Insomni’hack 2013
Insomni’hack 2013 took place last week at Geneva and I had the opportunity to attend. Insomni’hack DAY 1 consisted of one day workshops on subjects ranging from “Linux exploitation” to “How to make sure your Pentest Report is never empty”. I had the chance to attend a workshop on “Practical ARM exploitation” given by black Steve (@s7ephen) and white Steve (Stephen Lawler)
DDoS: A Brief History
Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been the tool of choice for cybercriminals since the dawn of the Internet. Why
Digital Attack on Korean networks: Wipers, Time-Bombs and Roman soldiers
On March the 20th, little after 2pm, several South Korean financial institutions and TV broadcasters networks were impacted by a destructive virus, which wiped hard drives of infected computers, preventing them to boot up upon restart. Since then, the team here has been up on the deck, dissecting the attack components. So far, here is what we’ve found out, that, to our knowledge, hasn’t been published anywhere yet: * The attack made use of two different droppers, in charge of d…
2013 BlackHat Europe
BlackHat Europe was last week, and Fortiguard Labs members were there for the briefings. Again this year, the 2 days event took place in Amsterdam downtown
One Brand of Firewall is a Best Practice
In case you haven’t seen it, there’s an interesting research note authored by Greg Young of Gartner that posits “one brand of firewall is a best practice for most enterprises.” And, in particular we have to agree. Why? Let’s go back to 1999 and see. Taking a quote from Bruce Schneier’s, A Plea for Simplicity, “the worst enemy of security is complexity.” Thirteen years later, Gartner also seems to agree; saying basically that having different firewall platforms increases configuration and m…
Twitter Hacks: How Avoid Being the Next Victim
Perhaps it had been too long since Twitter was the center of the public attention. Drama junkies were treated to a triple-whammy of cyber news this week when miscreants hacked into the Twitter accounts of Jeep, Burger King and none other than the global hacker collective Anonymous. In an ironic twist of plot, the infamous hacker group’s Twitter account was apparently overtaken by rival hacktivists, according to the BBC.
Security Threat Landscape – October 2012
Our monthly discussion of security issues for IT pros has Keith Shaw from IDG Enterprise chatting with Derek Manky, North American threat researcher for Fortinet. This month, we jump into Windows 8 security features worth looking at, why it’s probably better to upgrade from an earlier Windows version, and what’s going on with the near-field communications hack of the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone.
Benefits of ServiceDesk Plus MSP + Desktop Central MSP
The word ‘Integration’ has occupied a significant role in the IT department be it in the SME or large enterprises; because of the special benefits the integration feature possess. Let’s say, when a user submits request in ServiceDesk Plus(SDP) MSP
High Performance IPv6 Firewall Testing of Fortinet FortiGate 5140B with the 5101C blades
Fortinet and BreakingPoint conducted IPv6 firewall performance testing on the FortiGate 5140B using the FortiGate 5101C blades. Fortinet achieved 536 Gbps of IPv6 firewall throughput.