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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…

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…

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:08:45 -0800

The healthcare industry continues to ride the digital wave to improve patient care and organizational efficiency in addition to reducing costs. Hospitals and health systems are relying on electronic health records (EHRs), the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT) more than ever. While these technologies are convenient, efficient, and enable a higher degree of patient-centric care, they can be jeopardized by cybercriminals. Stolen patient data can easily be sold on the dark web to criminals looking to extort money, commit identify fraud, spearphish,…

Credit to Author: Kai Lu| Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 09:05:14 -0800

I discovered and reported multiple critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player last November. This Tuesday, Adobe released a security patch which fixed them.

Credit to Author: Rommel Joven| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:32:03 -0800

Given the popularity and success of ransomware, it is no surprise that malware authors have been developing more ransomware than ever before. Last year’s cost of ransomware attacks reached $1 billion, which not only shows how this affects businesses, but for cybercriminals the potential pay-out for cyber-extortion can be very lucrative. The rise of ransomware infections may also be attributed to the attractiveness growing availability of Ransomware-as-a-Service (Raas). Ransomware authors posts are now developing user-friendly…

Credit to Author: Tien Phan | Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:55:21 -0800

At the end of last year, a critical vulnerability in PHPMailer that affected millions of websites – CVE-2016-10033 –  was discovered by Polish security researcher Dawid. This vulnerability allows an attacker to compromise the target’s web application by executing remote code on the vulnerable web server. There are numerous open source web applications that use PHPMailer as their main library for sending emails, including WordPress, Joomla, Yii, SugarCRM… More than a month after PHPMailer released a patch for this critical…

Credit to Author: Bill McGee| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:03:03 -0800

RSA 2017 is a wrap. The final sessions are being recorded, the coat check area is filled with luggage, and the smell of propane is filling the show floors as forklifts begin to deliver packing crates to this year’s crop of security vendors. As expected, the hottest security topics and offerings were related to IoT and the cloud. Threat intelligence and SOCs were also top of mind as companies try to get a handle on the deluge of data and devices flooding their networks. In spite of the veneer of innovation, however, for far too many vendors…

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 06:24:36 -0800

By now, everyone has heard the numbers. IoT is part of a networking revolution that is transforming the world. Experts predict that by 2020 there will be over 33 billion IoT devices deployed, or 4.3 Internet-connected devices for every man, woman, and child on the planet. Of course, IoT is more than just one thing. There are a variety of IoT devices and categories, each with their own implications. Consumer IoT includes the connected devices we are most familiar with, such as smart cars, phones, watches, laptops, connected appliances, and…