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– Phishers Used Facebook to Penetrate Financial Firm’s Computer System (March 4, 2010)
Phishers used Facebook to burrow their way into the network of a large US financial company last year.
The attackers took control of one employee’s Facebook account and using information culled from that individual’s friends’ profiles, sent what appeared to be personal messages to several other company employees about pictures taken at a company picnic.
The phishers learned of the picnic through postings on the hijacked account. When one of the other employees received a message asking her to click on a link that would allow her to view the pictures, her computer became infected with keystroke logging malware.
When that employee logged in to a VPN account to access the company network, the attackers were able to capture the necessary information to gain access to that network. The intruders managed to get deeper into the network and take control of two servers before they were detected.
Original Story: http://lastwatchdog.com/facebook-phishers-breached-corporate-network/
Use a different hard password for each publicly accessible website service you use and be suspicious of links in e-mail even if they appear to be from friends.
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Michael Xie
The FortiOS 4.0 innovation milestone
This portion of a post by Michael Xie, co founder of Fortinet celebrates their new FortiOS 4.0.
Original Post at: http://blog.fortinet.com/the-fortios-40-innovation-milestone/
Today was another big milestone in the history of the company I co-founded and I’m very happy to have this opportunity to tell you about it.
Fortinet has released FortiOS 4.0, the firmware upgrade for our
FortiGate security systems. This release is the result of a tremendous effort by our development teams over the better part of 12+ months. These highly skilled and talented teams worked hard to design and implement these technology innovations so that we could confidently put the product in front of our customers.
Even in this time of economic uncertainty, I believe that innovation is our greatest strength. While other security vendors are merely coasting along, Fortinet is focused more than ever on expanding our vision for comprehensive and easily managed network security solutions. We are continuously updating our FortiOS firmware and each release builds upon our existing, pioneering innovations. For example, with FortiOS 3.0, Fortinet became the first security hardware company to offer VoIP / IM / P2P security; we were also the first security vendor to deliver integrated SSL VPN with complete content inspection. We’ve now built upon that technology to offer full application control and prioritization of more than 1,000 apps. Overall, our FortiOS 4.0 release delivers on two main objectives:
- Give our FortiGate customers access to security technologies and features that were previously only available via a combination of standalone vendors
- Continue to drive the increased security capabilities that help protect our customers from the never-ending and evolving threat landscape
FortiOS 4.0 introduces several features, the four most significant of which I want to highlight here:
- Application Control
- Data Leakage Prevention
- WAN Optimization
- SSL Inspection
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