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Credit to Author: Raul Alvarez| Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +0000

There have already been a lot of write-ups for the NotPetya malware. This article is just a supplement for what is already out there. Our focus is to highlight some key differences between a previous strain of the Petya ransomware and the malware that scared everyone a few weeks ago, which is now sometimes being referred to as NotPetya. I posted a blog post a couple of months ago about the MBR (Master Boot Record) infected by Petya. I explained how the ransomware infected the boot process and how it executed its own kernel code. In this post,…

Credit to Author: Bill McGee| Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 12:58:00 +0000

One of the toughest gigs in IT is the job of keeping an organization’s network safe. It is also one that is getting tougher with the rise of the millennial generation. Millennials – those in their 20s to mid-30s – are starting to dominate workplaces around the world. More than one-in-three workers in the US are millennials, a 2015 study by Pew Research Center found. And this demographic group will account for half of the global workforce by 2020, according to PwC. The term “millennial” has many connotations. Among them: They…

Credit to Author: Michael Xie| Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:00:00 +0000

By now, you will have all heard about the rampant spread of ransomware through countless press pieces, blog articles, and far too often, the outrageous claims of some security vendors. But let’s stop and think for a minute or two. How did these attacks happen? Are companies focusing on valid threats, fixing the right problems, or developing correct processes? Have so-called disruptive technologies disrupted our thinking? Let’s not go tactical. Instead, we need to consider, “what is our best strategy?” Ever since the…

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:58:00 +0000

During a 2015 event at the Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, participating panelists discussed the digital revolution and the classroom’s exposure to it. At the time, school districts had begun to adopt 1:1 policies, where each student would have access to laptops or tablets. Google was at the forefront of this surge, gaining a healthy chunk of new users each year across the education industry. Today, the formidable duo of the Google Chromebook and the G Suite for Education has changed the way education is approached. In this…

Credit to Author: Mike Morgan| Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Fortinet is proud to be a Sponsor at Microsoft Inspire 2017. This year’s worldwide partner conference is being held July 9-13 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Visit us at Booth #1015, or Table #SC3-11 in the Connect meeting area We will be providing security demos, including cloud-based solutions designed for Microsoft Azure, at Fortinet Booth #1015. Attendees can also schedule a meeting with the Fortinet team at table SC3-11 in the Connect meeting area through their personal MyInspire page….

Credit to Author: Nicolas Thomas| Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Fortinet participated as a sponsor and panellist at the NFV (Network Function Virtualization) tracks at ETSI Security Week, held on June 14th at ETSI’s headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, in the South of France. Fortinet is a participant in the ETSI NFV ISG group, focusing on NFV security, and earlier this year, Fortinet also participated in the ETSI plug-test to ensure VNF’s interoperability with different NFV stacks in real-world environments.

Credit to Author: Axelle Apvrille| Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 12:58:00 +0000

This blog post is a summary of SSTIC, a major infosec conference held in France. As usual, this year’s conference came with excellent presentations. The sessions have been recorded, and the papers are available on the website, although most of the content is in French. For a detailed wrap-up of SSTIC, please read @xme: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 SSTIC is one of the few IT conferences which (1) ask authors to submit full papers, (2) from which you return with information or tools to work on, and (3) whose presentations are mostly…

Credit to Author: Derek Manky| Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:58:00 +0000

This past year, cybercriminals have upped the stakes once again with the high profile, global attacks of Mirai, Wannacry, and Petya, launched one after the other. Of course, large-scale attacks aren’t new. Attacks like the ILOVEYOU worm and Code Red and Nimda were massive attacks, some of which affected exponentially more devices and organizations that this latest round of attacks. The spread of WannaCry and Petya were quickly curbed unlike these worms of the past. But this isn’t just about scale. Unlike in years past, the new digital…