Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Cynthia Hseih| Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:50:00 +0000

The emerging trend towards security automation is becoming essential for cloud deployment. Traditionally, businesses configure a Web Application Firewall with static policies to address unchanging, known-bad threats. Unfortunately, it can be tricky to get them all right in Public Cloud environment. With a growing number of attack variants, more rules you add the more potential there is to run into false positives. FortiWeb’s integration with the Azure Security Center now allows customers to take a reactive policy approach to web security…

Credit to Author: Honggang Ren| Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 07:00:00 +0000

    In our last blog in this series, we discussed FortiGuard Labs’ participation in Google’s second annual Capture The Flag (CTF) competition. In this blogpost, I want to share how I solved another challenge, called“ASCII Art Client”. ChallengeDescription For this challenge, participants were given two files: a binary file aart_client and a network capture aart_client_capture.pcap. File1: aart_client File2: aart_client_capture.pcap The goal of the challenge was: This client displays nice…