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OpenStack Cloud Vendors Vigilant in the Face of NSA Snooping

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The Edward Snowden revelations about NSA snooping in the cloud are not having an impact on OpenStack cloud vendors, including Rackspace and Dreamhost.

Anthony Pell
Nov 12, 2013

Three types of DNS attacks and how to deal with them

The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacking group, altered the DNS records used by the New York Times, Twitter, and the Huffington Post. The changes forced one site offline and caused problems for the others. Here are three ways such attacks happen, and how they can be mitigated

Alex
Aug 29, 2013

Network Security Remains a Blind Spot for Businesses

Areas of blind spots within the typical enterprise are many, including applications, network traffic, network devices and user activity.

Anthony Pell
Aug 07, 2013

Cloud insecurity? It's a perception problem

I've long been a believer that a judgement gap, influenced largely by negative media coverage, is what continues to hold back cloud adoption among small organizations. And judging from the results of a recent study completed by comScore, my intuition has been fairly on track.

Dave Wreski
Aug 02, 2013

Q&A: ownCloud Provides Secure File Sharing for the Enterprise

File storage and sharing using consumer-oriented cloud services can be a security problem for companies that want to avoid sensitive data leaks. ownCloud aims to solve the issue by offering commercial cloud services installed within a company's own datacenter.

Dave Wreski
Jun 11, 2013

Commission wants to turn tables on IP thieves by crippling PCs with extortion-style lock-outs

Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property was a recommendation to copy a tactic cyber scammers use to extort money from innocent victims.

Alex
May 28, 2013

Google's Cloud Drops Custom Linux For Debian

Google has been using its own custom version of Linux, Google Compute Engine Linux, as it loads its customers' applications into its infrastructure as a service.

Anthony Pell
May 13, 2013

Spammers dodge junk filters with Google Translate

Spammers are using Google's good reputation to dodge mail filters deliver their irritable spew to inboxes across the Internet.

Anthony Pell
Apr 04, 2013

Spam fighter, spammer spat becomes massive DDoS attack

A tiff between a Dutch company and Spamhaus, which blacklists spammers, has turned into a cyber attack of epic proportions. The distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) spread from the Spamhaus website to the rest of the Internet, reportedly affecting millions of rank and file Internet users.

Anthony Pell
Mar 29, 2013

Our Internet Surveillance State

'm going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same network infrastructure they used to carry out their attacks.

Dave Wreski
Mar 25, 2013

Linux, Windows, and security FUD

It's 2013. but the Linux FUD just keeps coming. In the most recent example, security firm Trustwave claimed that Linux kernel vulnerabilities went unpatched more than twice as long as it took to fix unpatched flaws in Windows. This assertion would be a lot more believable if it wasn't coming from a Microsoft partner.

Anthony Pell
Feb 26, 2013

Is SSL Secure?

Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security is the foundational technology that secures Web transactions and communications, but it is not infallible.

Dave Wreski
Feb 12, 2013

Printer Networks Vulnerable to Hackers: Report

Printers using server software offered by Hewlett-Packard (HP) are reportedly vulnerable to attack. In fact, it's possible for a hacker to use the flaw to bypass security defenses, steal documents, and crash every machine connected to the same network.

Pooja Shah
Jan 29, 2013

Testing Virtualisation Limits With A Network Training Laboratory

If you want to train large groups of students on how to use and deploy networking equipment, you

Anthony Pell
Jan 28, 2013

Cloud security to be most disruptive technology of 2013

The Security for Business Innovation Council, comprised of IT security professionals from 19 companies worldwide, called cloud computing the main disruptive force for 2013.

Anthony Pell
Jan 04, 2013

2012's worst security exploits, fails and blunders

A fool and his feeble p@$$w0rd are soon rooted, but if 2012 has proven anything, it's that even the most cautious security-minded souls need to double down on their protective practices, and think about the best ways to mitigate damage if the worst happens in our increasingly cloud-connected world.

Dave Wreski
Dec 28, 2012

Amazon hack highlights customer service security weakness

Amazon, the nation's largest online retailer, apparently still has some rather porous security protocols.

Dave Wreski
Dec 27, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz bets big on cloud security

Because Web 1.0 is many years behind us, we can all look back and laugh at the sorry state of application and database security in those days. When we look back at Cloud 1.0 in a few more years, we're sure to have another good chuckle.

Anthony Pell
Dec 06, 2012

Email hacks router

A whole range of Arcor, Asus and TP-Link routers are vulnerable to being reconfigured remotely without authorisation. On his blog, security researcher Bogdan Calin demonstrates that just displaying an email within the router's own network can have far-reaching consequences: when opened, his specially crafted test email reconfigures the wireless router so that it redirects the user's internet data traffic.

Dave Wreski
Nov 30, 2012

Evolving security standards a challenge for cloud computing

Any enterprise looking to use cloud computing services will also be digging into what laws and regulations might hold in terms of security and privacy of data stored in the cloud. At the Cloud Security Alliance Congress in Orlando this week, discussion centered on two important regulatory frameworks now being put in place in Europe and the U.S.

Anthony Pell
Nov 09, 2012

Linux Network Security - Page 6

Harnessing Proxies for Enhanced Threat Intelligence: A Guide with Open Source Tools

Understanding HTTP Proxy Servers: A Vital Linux Network Security Tool

Exploring Vulnerability Scanners: Tools & Strategies for a Secure Network