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Trump’s Win Signals Open Season for Russia’s Political Hackers

Yesterday, America elected as president the apparently preferred candidate of Russia’s intelligence agencies. After a campaign season marred by the influence of hackers, including some widely believed to be on Vladimir Putin’s payroll, that outcome means more than a mandate for Trump and his coalition. For Russia, it will also be taken as a win […] more…

Fight Against Ransomware Takes to the Cloud

“How many visitors do you expect to access the No More Ransom Portal?” This was the simple question asked prior to this law enforcement (Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, Dutch Police) and private industry (Kaspersky Lab, Intel Security) portal going live, which I didn’t have a clue how to answer. What do YOU think? How many […] more…

Researchers want to use hardware to fight computer viruses

Fighting computer viruses isn’t just for software anymore. Binghamton University researchers will use a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how hardware can help protect computers too. “The impact will potentially be felt in all computing domains, from mobile to clouds,” said Dmitry Ponomarev, professor of computer science at Binghamton University, State University […] more…

Flaws Found in Moxa Industrial Ethernet Products

A researcher has discovered a couple of critical and medium severity vulnerabilities affecting various industrial ethernet products from Taiwan-based industrial networking, computing and automation solutions provider Moxa. read more more…

Extending the Perimeter: Protecting Employees to Protect the Enterprise

In the early days of computing the cyber-security perimeter and the physical security perimeter were one and the same. Access to data implied access to the actual computer or storage media. From there we graduated to closed networks where computers only talked to each other within a building or private network but quickly modems started […] more…

Trump server secretly communicated with Moscow

Security experts claim to have found that a server belonging to Donald Trump was secretly passing messages to a Russian bank with close ties to Putin. In a rather long winded article the Slate spoke to a security expert who stumbled across a bank in Moscow that kept irregularly pinging a server registered to the […] more…

Want to see gaming’s past and future? Dive into the “educational” world of PLATO

In the days of mainframe computing, one system stood miles ahead of the rest. PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) wasn’t special for its power or speed or graphical prowess, though. It was remarkable for the ideas that drove its development and for the breadth of its impact—starting in the 1960s and accelerating through […] more…

New products of the week 10.31.16

New products of the week Our roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World’s products of the week slideshow. Atlantis Workspace Infrastructure integrated with Citrix Key features: Atlantis integrated workspace infrastructure into the Citrix management suite. The combination of applications, management and infrastructure into a single PaaS solution will […] more…

Kaspersky DDOS intelligence report for Q3 2016

Q3 events Cybercrime as a Service In the last few months the scale of the global ‘Cybercrime as a Service’ infrastructure has been revealed – fully commercialized, with DDoS as one of the most popular services capable of launching attacks the likes of which have never seen before in terms of volume and technological complexity. […] more…

Google’s Neural Networks Invent Their Own Encryption

Computers are keeping secrets. A team from Google Brain, Google’s deep learning project, has shown that machines can learn how to protect their messages from prying eyes. Researchers Martín Abadi and David Andersen demonstrate that neural networks, or “neural nets” – computing systems that are loosely based on artificial neurons – can work out how […] more…

Intel Security: navigating security for the hybrid cloud

As a Sci-Fi fan, the journey to the cloud reminds me of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek whose mission was to explore new worlds—to boldly go where no one has gone before. As businesses rush head-on into the digital frontier, spinning up new cloud instances at warp speed, the key question for security professionals […] more…

Jester defaces website but the Russian Government isn’t laughing

‘Batman of the Internet’ lectures Putin regime about Dyn attack more…

New products of the week 10.24.16

New products of the week Our roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World’s products of the week slideshow. The Back-UPS battery backup Key features: APC by Schneider Electric’s new Back-UPS battery backup solutions are designed to deliver reliable/secure power protection for wireless networks, computers and other home/business electronics […] more…

R3’s Corda Blockchain Platform Goes Open-Source

Blockchain is variously described as the future of computing or a hype bubble that has already burst, depending on which author you read. read more more…

Windows zero-day exploit used in targeted attacks by FruityArmor APT

A few days ago, Microsoft published the “critical” MS16-120 security bulletin with fixes for vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Skype for Business, Silverlight and Microsoft Lync. One of the vulnerabilities – CVE-2016-3393 – was reported to Microsoft by Kaspersky Lab in September 2016. Here’s a bit of background on how this zero-day was discovered. […] more…

The Last Key on The Ring – Server Solutions to Ransomware

This entry is the last part of a four-part blog series discussing the different techniques ransomware uses to affect users and organizations. These techniques show that the best way to mitigate the risks brought about by this threat is to implement multiple layers of protection in different aspects of an enterprise network: from the gateway, […] more…

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