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Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:34:52 +0000

As reliance on technology continues to grow, and students inevitably require greater access to web assets, schools have been keeping up by incorporating programs that allow for more devices and a more web-focused curriculum. While it’s important to provide these services, between paying for internet access and securing the network, they typically come at a great cost. To mitigate these costs, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and its subsidiary, the Universal Services Administrative Committee (USAC), implemented the E-rate program,…

Credit to Author: Keith Rayle| Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:59:00 +0000

In today’s digital business environment, we are seeing cyberattacks grow in both number and sophistication. The financial services industry in particular is continuously under attack due to the value of its data and the holes in current defense systems. Developing countries are attempting to solidify their place in the global economy by expanding their digital presences and connecting to worldwide financial networks. The security posture of the broader environment can be at risk due to their lack of proper security controls. One recent…

Credit to Author: Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:15:52 +0000

FortiGuard Labs recently captured some malware which was developed with the Microsoft .Net framework. I analyzed one of them, and in this blog, I’m going to show you how it is able to steal information from a victim’s machine. The malware was spread via a Microsoft Word document that contained an auto-executable malicious VBA Macro. Figure 1 below shows how it looks when it’s opened. Figure 1. When the malicious Word document is opened What the VBA code does Once you click the “Enable Content”…

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:59:00 +0000

For many organizations, embracing the potential of the new digital economy involves migrating services, data, and infrastructure to the cloud. The cloud is a powerfully disruptive technology. It allows businesses to be more agile, responsive, and available than ever before by transforming traditional compute architectures and best practices that have been in place for decades. Most organizations today have some sort of a cloud strategy. Nearly all of them are adopting a hybrid cloud infrastructure that combines their private cloud with one or…

Credit to Author: Margarette Joven| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:05:00 +0000

Yesterday, a new ransomware wreaked havoc across the world. This new malware variant, which combines the functionality of ransomware with the behaviors of a worm, is being called Petya, Petrwrap, and even NotPetya, since researchers are still investigating as to whether its ability to modify the Master Boot Record of a targeted machine is based on the Petya family of malware. Fortinet has designated this new hybrid form of malware as a ransomworm, and this outbreak was reported to use the same worm mechanism to spread across the Internet as WannaCry,…

Credit to Author: Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:15:52 +0000

FortiGuard Labs recently captured some malware which was developed with the Microsoft .Net framework. I analyzed one of them, and in this blog, I’m going to show you how it is able to steal information from a victim’s machine. The malware was spread via a Microsoft Word document that contained an auto-executable malicious VBA Macro. Figure 1 below shows how it looks when it’s opened. Figure 1. When the malicious Word document is opened What the VBA code does Once you click the “Enable Content”…

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:55:00 +0000

Fortinet’s UTM solutions have been positioned in the leader’s quadrant of Gartner’s annual Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management report for the 8th year in a row. In this year’s report, Gartner recognized the ‘completeness’ of our solution, which includes the Security Fabric vision, and we also achieved the highest placement for our ability to execute on that vision. Unified Threat Management, or UTM, solutions consolidate security and networking functions into a single device to simplify business infrastructures…

Credit to Author: Aamir Lakhani| Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:00:00 +0000

We are currently tracking a new ransomware variant sweeping across the globe known as Petya. It is currently having an impact on a wide range of industries and organizations, including critical infrastructure such as energy, banking, and transportation systems. This is a new generation of ransomware designed to take advantage of timely exploits. This current version is targeting the same vulnerabilities that we exploited during the recent Wannacry attack this past May. This latest attack, known as Petya, is something we are referring to as…