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Hacker attacks show vulnerability of cloud computing  17 June 2011 
Source: LA Times - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Outsourcing computer tasks to firms that maintain huge data centers around the world may not be as safe as billed, despite the cloud's potential for cost savings and reducing the hassles of running in-house servers, security experts say.
 
Turkey arrests 32 Anonymous hackers for DDOS attacks  13 June 2011 
Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Turkey responded to the hacking group Anonymous with 32 arrests following attacks on government websites, according to the country's state-run news agency.
 
Virtualized environments painfully insecure?  10 June 2011 
Source: CSO Online - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Less than 20 percent of organizations using virtualization technology are adopting security tools to work in tandem with the software in order to decrease the risks that are inherent in a virtualized environment. This according to John Burke, Principal Research Analyst with Nemertes Research, who spoke Tuesday at the IT Roadmap Conference and Expo in Boston about the emerging threats posed to mobile and virtual environments.
 
What is World IPv6 Day and why it matters  07 June 2011 
Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Anthony Pell   
While you’ve been asleep in your beds with visions of iPad 2s dancing in your heads, network administrators have been wide awake getting ready for World IPv6 Day. And, what’s that?
 
Another DoS fix for Apache HTTP server  23 May 2011 
Source: H Security - Posted by Anthony Pell   
The update of the Apache HTTP Server (httpd) to version 2.2.18 earlier this month to close a denial of service (DoS) problem appears to have exposed a related DoS vulnerability. The developers have now released httpd 2.2.19 to fix this new problem which has been rated as moderately critical; however, as with the previous DoS vulnerability, it requires that mod_autoindex is enabled in the web server.
 
Cloud-based security as a service: It's catching on and here's why  12 May 2011 
Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell   
When technology manager Lincoln Cannon wants to give his company's employees and business partners controlled access to various internal resources or cloud-based services the company uses, he goes to one cloud-based single sign-on security service to assign access privileges.
 
Phishing Becomes More Sophisticated  09 May 2011 
Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell   
The successful use of phishing emails to breach secure organizations like Oak Ridge National Laboratory and EMC's RSA security division is a stark reminder of the serious threat posed by a type of attack that was previously dismissed as low-tech.
 
Sony PlayStation Network Down While Hacker Proof System Built  25 April 2011 
Source: Gather - Posted by Anthony Pell   
The Sony PlayStation network down news for PS3 and Qriocity players is sobering. The network has been down for several days following an "external intrusion" a.k.a. hacker attack. Sadly, the PSN will be down longer while more security is put in place.
 
Instant cloud server security  05 April 2011 
Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Centrify's Tom Cromelin could hardly kept his excitement down (well, he's a marketing guy -- they get excited when the logo gets a new color) when he wanted to tell me about the new release of Centrify Express 2011. To get the full flavor, let me give it to you in his words:
 
Behind the curtain of a botnet business  30 March 2011 
Source: Network World - Posted by Alex   
A presentation at this week's LEET '11, a USENIX workshop on large-scale exploit and emergent threats, delves into the inner workings of the underground economy, specifically the rental and operation of spam botnets.
 
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