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Healthcare Digital Transformation & HIMSS17

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:57:16 -0800

Healthcare systems spanning the globe are recognizing the potential of digital technologies and looking to leverage them to develop new business models, new revenue streams, and a better customer experience across the industry.   When speaking about “digital” technologies impacting the industry in 2017, we at Fortinet are focused on four principal technologies that are most responsible for change:   Cloud IoT Ubiquitous Broadband Data Analytics   We recently sat down at HIMSS17 in Orlando,…

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MicrosoftSecurity

MSRT February 2017: Chuckenit detection completes MSRT solution for one malware suite

Credit to Author: msft-mmpc| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 22:45:06 +0000

In September 2016, we started adding to Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) a malware suite of browser modifiers and other Trojans installed by software bundlers. We documented how the malware in this group install other malware or applications silently, without your consent. This behavior ticks boxes in the evaluation criteria that Microsoft Malware Protection…

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FortinetSecurity

Looking Back at Fortinet’s Security Research and Vulnerability Discoveries

Credit to Author: Peixue Li| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:31:33 -0800

In an effort to provide more proactive protections in Fortinet products and to more effectively identify and defeat network threats, the Fortinet security research team works on discovering potential threats in popular products. As a result, over the past year we have discovered 84 vulnerabilities that have been reported to their respective vendors as part of our responsible vulnerability disclosure process. Fortinet protections against these discoveries were released to Fortinet products at the same time these vulnerabilities were reported to their…

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Rogue Chrome extension pushes tech support scam

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:22:42 +0000

Google Chrome may be one of the more secure browsers but an increasing number of malicious extensions are being forced onto users. The one we analyze can hide itself and receive commands from a remote server in order to hijack the browser with incessant offers, fraud and even tech support scams.

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FortinetSecurity

FortiGuard Labs – Global Healthcare Threat Telemetry for Q4 2016

Credit to Author: Gavin Chow| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:49:01 -0800

This Global Healthcare Threat Telemetry report examines the threat landscape of the global healthcare industry in Q4 2016. It is based on threat telemetry obtained by FortiGuard Labs’ research group from sensors located at 454 healthcare companies located in 50 countries around the globe. FortiGuard Labs, and its more than 200 researchers and analysts located around the world, logs over 400,000 hours of threat research every year by monitoring and analyzing threat telemetry gathered from over two million sensors. The resulting threat intelligence…

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