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| Sen. Mark Warner sent letters to FCC, FTC and DHS to find out what can be done to prevent attacks like the one that hit Dyn; how defend against botnet attacks like Mirai’s. Read More ▶ |
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| | | White Paper: Recorded Future There's a lot of talk about the dark web these days, including how cyber criminals use it to spread malware, leak intellectual property, and publish user account credentials. Using open source intelligence (OSINT), our team explored the surface, deep, and dark parts of the web and investigated the links between them. Read More ▶ | | With the recent take down of DYN and Brian Krebs’ web site, cybercriminals have found a way to use your own devices to bring the internet to its knees. Portnox’s CEO Ofer Amitai provides some ways to keep those devices safe from these attacks. Read More ▶ |
| | OwnBackup is making a business out of what vendors should (arguably) do: secure and automated daily backups of SaaS and PaaS data. Read More ▶ |
| | | | Home routers are flawed and vulnerable to being hacked, claims security firm ESET. Read More ▶ |
| | Who is responsible for preventing DDoS attacks involving IoT devices? Read More ▶ |
| | The advanced research arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence rolled out the Virtuous User Environment (VirtUE) program which the agency says “is looking to use the federal government’s impending migration to commercial cloud-based IT infrastructures and the current explosion of new virtualization and operating system concepts to create and demonstrate a more secure interactive user computing environment than the government has had in the past or likely to have in the near future.” Read More ▶ |
| | The need for vigorous criminal enforcement of cybercrime laws will only become more important as networked computers and the criminals who target them grow. That was how the Department of Justice started a blog post this week that defined how it decides whether or not to prosecute a federal computer-related crime. Read More ▶ |
| | White Paper: Recorded Future Learn how to overcome the political inertia that often accompanies building a threat intelligence team from the ground up. This white paper details how to merge operational and strategic capabilities to automate and analyze external attack data to identify current and future security threats. Discover the six core competencies that comprise a successful program. Read More ▶ | Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World’s LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity).
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