Fortinet Evaluates Its 2010 Forecasts

At the start of the current year (2010), Fortinet the security company released a report highlighting what it forecasted for 2010. Now, with half the year traveled, the company is evaluating the extent of accuracy of its predictions.

Actually, during January 2010, Fortinet had predicted that the main thing in protecting servers' virtual movements will be blocking contaminations from interaction across virtual systems.

Now during June 2010, Fortinet outlines that as virtualization is progressing treating every VM (virtual machine) like a physical computer becomes vital. For instance, it may be very easy for a PC virus to hop between VMs having totally separate access credentials that would allow a more powerful contamination.

In January 2010, Fortinet also predicted that scareware or rogue security software, because of its high profitability, will figure as one of the most prevalent e-threats during the current year (2010). Indeed, the company's projection has proved correct in that scareware has turned out the key threat for Fortinet.

Earlier the company's Threat Landscape Report for February 2010 revealed that a spam scheme delivered certain malicious software binary named "report.zip" that once run would pull down a fake antivirus program. Actually, the malware pulled down "Security Tool" a ransomware and revised edition of "Total Security," which created havoc as a scareware during 2009.

In addition to the above projections, Fortinet, in January 2010, had also forecasted that botnets would not any more disguise their binary scripts for evading security detection as 2010 progressed. Instead they would exploit genuine communication mediums for cloaking and proliferating malicious operations.

Now during June 2010, the company details many new botnets, which have appeared online and use the ordinary HTTP protocol for executing their malevolent tasks. Moreover, botnets that were there before 2010 still run strong and use improved protocols for camouflaging their activities. This proves flourishing business which is thus botnet builders' main focus now.

Eventually, the projections by Fortinet are coming out as relatively true and therefore the company suggests netizens that they must step up their online vigilance so that instances of cyber scams against them may be kept at bay.

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