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Credit to Author: Anthony Giandomenico| Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000

To predict the future, simply look at the past. With that in mind, here’s a quick overview of the current state of cybersecurity, along with what lies on the horizon and what organizations can do to secure their networks.

Credit to Author: Brian Forster| Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are becoming increasingly common across the financial services industry. DDoS attacks occur when a portion of the network is targeted, typically at the networking, transport, or application layer, with a flood of requests that overwhelm network bandwidth, causing it to slow or crash completely. 

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

2017 was another landmark year for cybersecurity. In reviewing our quarterly Threat Landscape reports, it is clear that 2017 has been notable primarily for three things: the rapid digital transformation and expansion of the potential attack surface, the increasing sophistication of cyber attacks, and a lapse in basic cybersecurity hygiene, largely being driven by digital transformation coupled with the growing cybersecurity skills gap.

Credit to Author: Rajoo Nagar| Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

To mitigate the cyber risks associated with Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices connecting to healthcare networks, security controls must be put in place to ensure that one compromised medical device does not lead to the compromise of the entire network and the loss of valuable patient data.

Credit to Author: Jon Bove| Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

Partners: Cybersecurity must always be a critical element of your customers’ innovations to ensure that changes in enterprise technology do not leave the organization vulnerable to attacks. However, this is easier said than done.

Credit to Author: Drew Del Matto| Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

As global cyberattacks persist, cybersecurity is becoming a main focus in the C-suite. Gone are the days where it’s just a concern for IT teams. These rapid, sophisticated attacks across industries have demonstrated that cybersecurity is the responsibility of the entire organization as they seek to avoid the crippling effects associated with data breaches.

Credit to Author: Artem Semenchenko and Evgeny Ananin| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:30:00 +0000

FortiGuard Labs continues to investigate a series of attacks on Bitcoin users. In our first blog, we [AS1] provided a deep analysis of malicious samples from the Bitcoin Orcus RAT campaign. In this second part, we recreate the full path of a multistage complex attack, shed some light on some other activities of these criminal actors, and reveal their possible identities. Failed attempt Bitcointalk.org is a popular place to trade for bitcoins. In 2015 there was a simple and straightforward attack on its users. Somebody registered a…

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

Recently, Fortinet CISO Phil Quade spoke with Hussein Syed, CISO at RWJBarnabas Health, and Erik Devine, CISO at Riverside Healthcare, about how they are addressing some of the most pressing IT challenges facing healthcare while enabling technical innovation.