Articles Tagged ‘threat prevention’

DNSChanger Rogue DNS Servers Taken Down

February 6th, 2012

Great info from the Palo Alto Networks Product Management Team on the latest events surrounding DNSChanger. DNSChanger is a malware family that has been around for several years now, and at its height controlled the web browsing of some 4 million PCs.  DNSChanger typically masqueraded as a video codec download, and once downloaded would surreptitiously [...]

Findings from WildFire

November 8th, 2011

It has been a busy and exciting week at Palo Alto Networks where we have announced a brand new platform – the PA-200 a branch office appliance for the distributed enterprise , a new software update – PAN-OS 4.1 with more than 50 new features , and WildFire™, a completely new capability of the next-generation [...]

Cyber-Security: A Fight on Two Fronts

August 30th, 2011

While talking with a few federal security analysts at the recent GFIRST Conference, I was reminded of just how challenging the job of information security really is at the government level today. Most anyone who follows security, knows that state and federal agencies have been repeatedly targeted in the recent rash of network breaches. However [...]