Fortinet's FortiGate-VM Is Now Available On Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The network security giants Fortinet, has now made their award winning product FortiGate available on popular cloud computing platform: Amazon Web Services. According to Fortinet, this will help customers to extend their public cloud deployment. Amazon Web Services is a free to join cloud computing service and a part of Amazon.com, where you pay only for what you use. Many companies use this platform to help their business grow, and now since FortiGate-VM is now available on AWS, so many of the AWS customers can now use FortiGate to make their business safer and securer. 

FortiGate-VM is a very carefully designed product and help customers to decrease the potential blind spots by making use of critical network security controls. It uses bi-directional stateful firewalling, VPN with their virtual private cloud, and intrusion prevention techniques to make online payments and monetary transactions more secure. 

On announcing FortiGate-VM availability on AWS, James Burns, Director of Security for True Link Financial, said “Our unique and innovative business model that helps prevent fraud for our customers and their loved ones.”

“Since we have already invested in Fortinet security solution for our corporate network, when it came to processing credit card and other financial transactions securely in our data center, we were confident we could rely on FortiGate-VM on AWS to provide protection, performance and encrypted communications for our mission-critical services.”

The Head of Global Technology Alliances, Amazon Web Services, Brian Matsubara also commented “We are pleased to see Fortinet continuing to expand its offering on AWS through AWS marketplace with their FortiGate platform. By bringing their security platform to AWS Fortinet is providing scalable network security controls to customers around the world.”    

        

FortiGate is one of the most trusted cloud network security product, and getting its VM on AWS has expanded its reach and possibilities of cloud computing. It is a simple and easy to use service and does not create difficulties for users. However even if a problem arises in it then, a good thing is: by simply calling at Fortinet Technical Support Number, support can be availed. 

Techcillin is a leading company in providing expert support for issues related to Fortinet products. There are other companies as well, but it is always about reaching right company at the right time.   

Fortinet network security products are easy to use and with a little knowledge you can setup both virtual and physical security systems. However if you feel the need of help in installing or using any of the Fortinet products then expert support for Fortinet can be achieved by contacting experts.

STOPzilla Mobile, a Reliable Antivirus App for Android Phones

STOPzilla Mobile is a free antivirus app for Android devices. It is a handy and reliable Android application that gives real time protection to Android data from all kinds of threats. It is a full featured antivirus app that also has remote security and anti-theft solutions. This app is available in Google Play Store; you can download it all for free. It is a lightweight app that is 814k in size and is supported in 2.0.1 and above Android OS versions. The app doesn’t take much time to get installed and once installed, you can easily use it to protect your mobile data and other installed apps.

 

STOPzilla Mobile comes with a good set of features that almost every good security app consists of. The interface of the app is well made. It’s clean and easy to use. The labels, buttons, and operations are easy to understand, that gives you a clear idea of their functionality. This is an antivirus app that gives protection against threats that can enter into your device through data transfers between other devices and also from those that can enter through the internet. It gives strong protection to data and apps. The antivirus app comes with a threat scan engine that has good threat detection and removal rate. The app makes use of in-the-cloud scanning technology to give precautionary measures against compromising websites. Using apps immediate scanning feature app runs a scan when you install an app. The app also helps you in maintaining your privacy. It keeps track of each application’s activity and checks-audits if an app is trying to access the internet or any sensitive data, like: contact list, calendar entries, messages, photos etc.  

Besides these STOPzilla Mobile app also has an anti-theft feature that comes handy when the device is lost or stolen. It has device location tracking system, using which you can map the device exact location at that moment, along with that it has an audio alert, lock, wipe data and remotely messaging features.

STOPzilla provides a good set of features that make the app handy and effective. However more number of features can cause confusion and you may end up with doing something that you shouldn’t do.  The best thing to do at such times is reaching for help, like calling at STOPzilla technical support number 

This can help you solve the problem. Getting support for STOPzilla products is a thing that can be availed from various sources. But everything depends on contacting the right company. A leading company that provides effective and quick support for STOPzilla products is Techcillin. 

To sum up all, STOPzilla Mobile is a good option to choose as a smart-phones antivirus app. It’s a free, fast, functional, and effective app that keeps your Android data protected. 

F-Secure Warn Users about ZeuS Variant Gameover Entering Monster.com

F-Secure, the giant of digital data security, is warning users against Gameover, which is a notorious variant of Trojan ZeuS. The variant is creating problems in a popular job portal website- Monster.com. According to F-Secure security analyst, the attack actually compromises user accounts in two steps, when they visit the job portal. 

The Trojan variant Gameover is planted in the host’s computer by typical method of tempting users, which includes a spam, malware, bot installer, or an exploit toolkit. When this Trojan is implanted into the system, the malware then stores credentials such as username and password entered in online forms.

In its second phase, the users are asked to fill a fake online security verification form. This form directs user to choose and reply 3 security questions out of 18 questions in total, which then reveals the rest of user credentials to the hackers. This then gives full control of the users’ account to hackers. 

According to F-Secure, the purpose of this attack is still not known, although hacking into the HR departments’ accounts via Monster could possibly be the reason. The number of victims of the attack is also not clear. 

Before attacking on Monster.com, the Gameover ZeuS was attacking another job portal website CareerBuilder.com, since a long time. Also in the first half of February 2014, a fresh variant of Gameover got dispersed as .enc file (encrypted document). Later in the same month, another variant of Gameover was spotted which safeguard its process via kernel rootkit, therefore making it very hard to remove the malware.

So F-Secure are advising users are to look out for unusual things on the login page and incorporate a two factor validation. Besides these, installing a strong antivirus and internet security software, those provided by F-Secure, is recommended. 

F-Secure security software is one of the best security software available out there. All of their products are pretty good at doing their job well and making your data safe and secure. However, they are simply products and may create problems or issues in the future. 

Techcillin is a good place to find Support for F-Secure. They have the best experts working with the F-Secure support team. So if you have any issues or problems with any of the F-Secure products, simply call at F-Secure Customer Support Number here and get your problems sorted ASAP.

Avast Warns Users from Opening a Bogus WhatsApp Email

Have you got some emails in your inbox with the title “Missed voice message” and the sender name “WhatsApp Messenger”? If yes, then do not open this email and immediately trash it. Within the last few days a fake email which presents itself as an important email from WhatsApp team has been spreading out in the internet. This email is a hoax. WhatsApp never emails its users; the company usually notifies users directly by sending messages via the app itself.  

So if you have any email with sender name as WhatsApp messenger then that email is a threat. Avast is warning its users not to open the fake email. According to them the email asks recipient to download the attached file with the name “Missed-messages.zip”. According to Avast this zip file contains an executable file with the same name missed-message.exe. On running this exe file, it can download and install harmful malware, including Zeus Trojan, in recipient computer.

The Zeus Trojan is a pretty harmful virus, it usually remains silent in the background, until the user don’t log on to a banking website. Once a banking site is opened, Zeus collects user’s potential data and other online banking information. 

So what you can do to protect yourself and your data against the attack and possible malware installations is, simply deleting the mail from your inbox and installing a powerful antivirus and internet protection software, like those provided by Avast. 

The Avast Antivirus can detect executable files spread in Zip files and protects users from Zeus and other possible threats and attacks.

However, if you face any difficulties in downloading or using any feature of Avast security solutions, then the best thing to do is contacting experts. There are well versed experts working with Techcillin Avast Tech Support Team. 

As they are the experts of Avast security solutions so, they understand all know-how of Avast. All that you have to do is giving a call at their Avast Tech Support Number and getting your problems solved.  

ESET Uncovered A Backdoor Trojan That Hijacked 2500 Plus UNIX Servers

After a recent survey, ESET, the global leader in proactive digital security protection, has announced that its security research team, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, has uncovered a wildly spread malware involving a backdoor Trojan, which has managed to hijack and seize control of over 2500 UNIX servers worldwide. They named the Trojan "Windigo". 

Pierre-Marc Bureau, Security program manager of ESET said ”Windigo has been gathering strength, largely unnoticed by the security community, for more than two and half years and has over 10000 servers under its control. This number is significant if you consider each of these systems have access to significant bandwidth, storage, computing power and memory.” 

The attack Windigo, actually hijacks servers and then infect the computers that visit them and steals information from their system. The infected servers are then used for redirecting thousands of web visitors to malicious content on a daily basis. 

ESET researchers are warning and advising webmasters and system administrators to check their system because, more than 60 percent of websites in the world are running on Linux Servers. So there are chances that they get infected. According to reports, servers located across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France are amongst the infected ones. The published report explains the team’s finding on investigation and malware analysis. The report also offered necessary steps to determine: if the systems are affected by the malware, and instruct to remove the malicious code. 

Besides these major guides, it also advises users to keep their ESET antivirus and firewall updated. And if in case you are having any difficulties in updating the ESET Antivirus or any other ESET security product, contact ESET Support is the best option. 

If you are unable to reach them, you can also take help from third-party support companies, like Techcillin. They are the industries’ leading third-party ESET Tech Support Company. Its ESET Support can be contacted anytime and from anywhere. They have their team working throughout the year. All that is required is: one single email or a call on their ESET Support Number.