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A Powerful Case for Good Use of Big Data for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity via Splunk
When it comes to protecting an enterprise network or a government network there’s a great deal of discussion about what solutions exist to batten down the hatches and dog the doors against intruders; but often the same technologies we use to detect intruders (and insiders) can be used to predict failures. Amid the solutions the ...
Boxopus Brings Torrents Out of the Cloud and Directly Into Your Dropbox
It’s strange that the function of peer-to-peer technology doesn’t often combine directly with cloud efforts because the strategy behind p2p fits so neatly into the jigsaw of the cloud. It certainly does combine behind the scenes more often than not, even though much of the media industry seems to be out to demonize BitTorrent, we ...
Bitinstant Reviews The Bitcoin Card, It’s Real: Small, Thin, and Smart
Earlier this month SiliconANGLE got wind of a new piece of technology being developed to revolutionize mobile cash transactions by giving people the ability to store and transfer bitcoins via a device as small and thin as a credit card. Not just the usual smartcard, but a pretty impressive piece of technology that combines networking, ...
“Cascading Bug” Bites Twitter Drawing the Wrath of the Fail Whale
Today a lot of Twitter users found themselves unable to access their tweets and retweet their friends after Twitter suffered a bug that caused it to become intermittently inaccessible to their users. The fail whale once again reared its albino head with a huge splashdown starting at around 12pm ET and it affected almost all ...
Xbox 720 Leak Confuses Press While Microsoft Uses Copyright to Suppress Document
Over the weekend a strange document leaked from Microsoft that quickly spread into numerous cloud storage venues outlining a long-term plan for the Xbox 720. The video game console giant was extremely slow to move to do anything about the leak and also languorously began to send out copyright notices to various settings to have ...
Security Expert Bruce Schneier Admonishes Antivirus Industry Over Flame, DuQu, and Stuxnet
The subject of state-sponsored malware has become a major topic across the cybersecurity media lines, and for good reason: not only has it been caught in the nets of antivirus firms, but we’ve decompiled it and received confirmation from the states who released it. However, it turns out that the antivirus industry is poorly suited ...
How Microsoft Surface Could Take Advantage of SmartGlass and Kinect Technology
The mystery Microsoft tablet Surface is out and it has nothing to do with the Xbox—not a disappointment to anyone, although the mystery still continues across some elements of the tablet’s technology. Looking at other developments across Microsoft’s technology line, it’s about time we start speculating about how the software giant intends to differentiate themselves ...
Famous Hacker Kevin Mitnick Joins Forces with KnowBe4
Clearwater, FL-based cybersecurity outfit KnowBe4 provides training for business and enterprise groups on what to expect when an attacker (be it malware or a person) attempts to gain access to their systems. They have joined forces with previously famous hacker Kevin Mitnick—well known for penetrating the Army and the Pentagon in 1983 when he was ...
Learning the Lesson of the Kobayashi Maru: Cybersecurity, Thinking Like the Enemy, and Big Data
Any time there is something valuable it means that multiple parties want it, be it the Maltese Falcon, state nuclear secrets, proprietary business information, or a database full of usernames and passwords for a popular forum. James Caroland, U.S. Cyber Command, and Greg Conti, Director of the Cyber Security Research Center at West Point, put ...
Gmail Accounts Hijacked by ‘State-Sponsored Attackers’ via IE Zero-Day
Both Microsoft and Google have been at the press to warn users that attackers are using a new zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer being used to hijack Gmail accounts. The flaw is currently unpatched (fitting any zero-day exploit) and enables an attacker to create a drive-by attack that could hook most users with little or ...