Summary Microsoft released a security advisory on Aug 23 that discusses a remote attack vector that allows an attacker to remotely take control of user’s machine. The security advisory was in response to a report released by a security researcher the previous week that described how more than 40 Windows applications could be compromised due [...]

In this blog, I talk about how our next-generation firewalls protect against botnets such as Torpig. There are 3 parts to a botnet attack: 1. User visits a website which starts a chain reaction for torpig-infection There are 2 ways in which this can happen:

The 2010 Verizon Data Breach Report was released recently and like previous iterations, it was well worth the time to read it. For those who have not seen it, this report looks analyzes corporate level data breaches to show us what happened, how it happened and makes recommendations on how to stop them in the [...]