With growing concern over DNS manipulation attacks, details on a new elite state-sponsored DNS hijacking campaign have been released. Called operation Sea Turtle, researchers believe that at least 40 different organizations across 13 countries have been compromised. Researchers at Cisco Talos discovered the ongoing campaign targeting both public and private entities, and including national security agencies, located primarily in the Middle East and North Africa. While confident that the attackers…

Sunnyvale, CA-based Fortinet agreed a deal worth $545,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by the U.S. government and Yuxin ‘Jay’ Fang. The lawsuit alleged that Fortinet had supplied mislabeled goods manufactured by countries including China, falsely representing the goods were in compliance with the U.S Trade Agreements Act (TAA). According to the settlement agreement and Department of Justice announcement public on 12 April, Fortinet has acknowledged that between 2009…