Networks
The latest technologies and best practices to secure local, virtual, cloud, and hybrid networks.
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Researchers: Sony Hack Was Insider Breach
Norse Corporation researchers are claiming that a group of six people, including at least one former Sony Pictures employee, was behind the recent breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment. The researchers tracked the activities of the former employee, a systems administrator who had an extensive technical background and knowledge of Sony’s systems, on underground forums where…
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BrowserStack Hacked via Shellshock
The cross-browser testing service BrowserStack was recently breached by an attacker who leveraged his access to send an email to users claiming that the service was shutting down. Claiming to come from the BrowserStack team, the hacker’s email to customers stated, “We have no firewalls in place, and our password policies are atrocious. All virtual…
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Forgotten Passwords Cost Companies $200,000 a Year
A recent survey of 2,000 people in the U.S. and the U.K. has found that companies lose over $420 in productivity per employee per year due to workers struggling with passwords — for a 500-person company, that’s a loss of more than $200,000 per year. The survey, conducted by Widmeyer and sponsored by Centrify, also…
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Sysinternals and Microsoft Windows: An Overview
If you’ve even a modicum of experience with more than a few versions of Microsoft Windows, you’ve probably heard of Sysinternals and know the name Mark Russinovich. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in 2006, and today Mark Russinovich is a technical fellow in the Cloud and Enterprise division. While he spends most of his time focusing on…
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How to Build Security into Your Software Development Lifecycle
By Nazar Tymoshyk, SoftServe In today’s technology environment, the question is no longer if your business is vulnerable to cyber security threats or may be attacked someday. The question is when, and will you be prepared. Widespread use of cloud computing, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and smart devices leave businesses of all types and scales more vulnerable…
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Sony Networks Taken Down by DDoS Attack
Sony recently acknowledged that its PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network had been taken offline due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, stating that the networks had been “impacted by an attempt to overwhelm our network with articifically high traffic.” “We are under attack by a large scale DDoS,” Sony Online Entertainment president…
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SaaS Security Risks: It’s the Users, Stupid
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications offer organizations convenience and constant feature refreshes without the need to install and deploy software on-premises. But SaaS also brings a host of security concerns that could open an enterprise’s data to attack. At the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas this week, security researchers from Adallom will present a workshop…
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How to Reduce Use-After-Free Memory Risk
Look at any recent security update from Microsoft, Google or Mozilla and you will find use-after-free memory errors. These vulnerabilities enable attackers to take advantage of allocated memory after it has already been used. Attackers can potentially leverage that memory space to execute arbitrary code. “We’re seeing more use-after-free memory attacks than we ever have…
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Code Spaces Destroyed by Cyber Attack
The code hosting service Code Spaces was recently forced to shut down permanently after suffering a multi-stage attack on its servers. On June 17, 2014, Code Spaces was hit by a DDoS attack — but as the company soon found, that was just the beginning. The unidentified attacker had also gained access to Code Spaces’…
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Lowe’s Acknowledges Third Party Data Breach
Lowe’s recently began notifying an undisclosed number of current and former employees that their personal information may have been disclosed when a third-party vendor mistakenly backed up Lowe’s employee data to an unsecured server. The vendor, SafetyFirst, manages an online database called E-DriverFile, which stores compliance information related to current and former drivers of Lowe’s…
