One in five security professionals recently surveyed by ISACA say its organization has experienced an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack.
Email, Privacy and You… a Look Inside SB 467
For geeks like me, 1986 was a great year… IBM unveiled their “PC Convertible laptop”, the “first MS-DOS virus, Brain,” was released, and the “Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA)” was enacted. And, why is this so important? Because 27 years later, laptops, computer viruses and this piece of legislation all impact just about everyone in one way or another.
Sandboxing Technologies, Techniques Get Another Look
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…
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
IT Complexity Bolsters Argument for Managed Security
The forward drive and accompanying expense found in the integration of existing systems and infrastructure with new technologies is placing pressure on organizations to rethink network security strategies. Increasing complexity of both IT and physical security requirements, observes Frost & Sullivan in its “Analysis of the Global Managed Security Services Market” (Feb
ASG 8.309 Up2Date Released
Up2Date 8.309 of ASG has been released. Mainly a bugfix release, it also allows qualified clustered and HA appliances to one-touch upgrade to Sophos UTM 9
Radio Free Security: November 2012 Episode
2012 Security Predictions in Review: Win or Fail? We’re nearing the end of the year, which means the season of holiday decorations, spiked eggnog, and Christmas music blaring in every store and on all the radio stations… It also means the season of annual predictions. Every year, the WatchGuard security analysts and I pull out our crystal balls, tarot cards, and tea leaves, and try to forecast some of the security threats and trends you can expect in the following year.
ASG 8.307 Up2Date Released
An Up2Date has been released for ASG 8.307 that optimizes the one-touch update to UTM 9 for supported official appliances, and contains some security patches for the Astaro Security Gateway platform. Supported ASG appliances are unlocked and ready for upgrading you to UTM 9 (if you don't see the upgrade option in your Up2Date section, be patient – it will take some hours to fully spread