M2M offers hackers a new frontier for mischief
There will be an estimated 50 billion embedded mobile devices within 20 years
John P. Mello Jr. | 11 Feb | Read more
There will be an estimated 50 billion embedded mobile devices within 20 years
John P. Mello Jr. | 11 Feb | Read more
NSS Labs today released test results of performance, management and security capabilities in a dozen low-end network firewalls, with Check Point, Juniper and Stonesoft earning top technical scores.
Ellen Messmer | 29 Jan | Read more
Cybercrime today is a full-fledged business with executives, middle managers and workers who depend on a variety of service providers to keep the illicit operations humming, a new study shows.
Antone Gonsalves | 26 Dec | Read more
Fortinet cybercrime report says that organizational structures of such illicit businesses are eerily close to legitimate companies
Antone Gonsalves | 24 Dec | Read more
The world of cybercrime is getting more specialized as an eco-sphere of helpers in running botnet operations has developed, according to one security researcher who spent over a year monitoring online forums and communities.
Ellen Messmer | 19 Dec | Read more
Network security firm Fortinet has revealed FortiGuard Labs' 2013 threat predictions, highlighting six threats to watch out for next year.
In the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/111611-smb-security-survey-253083.html">security</a> popularity contest of the moment, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> and Juniper are down and Palo Alto Networks and Check Point are up when it comes to network firewalls, according to one research firm.
Ellen Messmer | 30 Nov | Read more
Asian enterprises are revising their information security strategies, according to a newly released broad-based IT security survey by Fortinet.
Anuradha Shukla | 29 Sep | Read more
A banking Trojan that has plagued Symbian, BlackBerry and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> Phone users has now made its way to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a> devices.
Security vendor Fortinet has hit back against tests by NSS Labs that showed one of its high-end firewalls along with products from other vendors could be hacked using a 'TCP split handshake attack'.
John E Dunn | 14 Apr | Read more
A test by NSS Labs that found firewalls from five vendors are subject in one way or another to remote exploit by hackers has ignited furious response from vendors Fortinet and SonicWall.
Ellen Messmer | 14 Apr | Read more
Apparently, NSS Labs struck a nerve. NSS Labs revealed that almost all of the firewalls it tested for a recent report are susceptible to crash or compromise using common attacks. The firewall vendors in question, though, beg to differ and take exception to the claims made by NSS Labs.
Tony Bradley | 14 Apr | Read more
Fortinet today introduced a high-speed security blade that combines a slew of capabilities -- including firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, identity-based application controls, anti-virus, anti-spam and Web filtering -- and delivers up to 40G bit/sec throughput.
Ellen Messmer | 01 Dec | Read more
Microsoft said its free malware cleaning tool had scrubbed the money-stealing Zeus bot from nearly 275,000 Windows computers in under a week.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Oct | Read more
HP Networking and Fortinet, as part of the HP One alliance, have forged a partnership to launch UTM in a switch under the FortiGate One brand. As part of the alliance, certain specified range of HP switches can be loaded with Forti OS, a version of the software used in Fortinet UTM appliances, extending their capabilities to include the functionality of a UTM.
Tasneem Balapurwala | 01 Jun | Read more