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Fortinet Global Partner Conference 2012

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I was lucky enough to attend the Fortinet Global Partner Conference in Miami this month. The conference took place on a cruise ship which traveled around the Bahamas from Monday-Friday. There was a good mixture of Fortinet presentations and technical training which took place on the ship as well as off ship excursions to several Islands. The focus of the conference was the release of FortiOS Version 5. Once again Fortinet have produced a significant release with a great set of enhancements and new features including endpoint device recognition which can be used in firewall policies, Wireless improvements, advanced anti-malware detection, Anti-Virus, IPS and client reputation. The number of features is too great to include in this post but a quick check on the Fortinet website will give more information. http://www.fortinet.com/solutions/os5.html All in all the conference seemed like a great success and the attendance was high at around 1700 people.

Disgruntled employee gets 6 yrs for crashing Gucci email system.

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Through the backdoor ! Chinese android handset problems.

Well it has been a while since the last post. I haven't really got too excited about anything in the news over the past few months, or had many new toys to play with until recently. Just to get things started I did find the story below quite interesting. Chinese Android handset,ZTE Score M has been found to have an application installed which acts as a backdoor to the operating system. The application has a hard coded password which gives root level access to the device. The password and instructions are readily available online. As of yet there is no proof of a remote exploit being possible, but it is very likely that software downloaded by the user could be coded in such a way to exploit the issue and give attackers access to your device. Still, so far not a big issue for the UK as it is only linked to handsets which were supplied by China to the US !!