John Casaretto
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Alert Logic blazes a leading cloud security path
Alert Logic is positioned as a security leader in the industry, with a unique focus on cloud. A number of recent announcements have reinforced that leadership position with the publication of the State of Cloud Security Report and the distinction of having their services selected to protect the infrastructure of RigNet, a leading global provider ...
Forget Testing, HealthCare.Gov is a Data Nightmare
Healthcare.gov is a technical abomination. Sure, it may not have been reasonable to think that there wouldn’t be some hitch at launch with a project like this, but this has gone way beyond a couple of hitches. Slapping the word ‘glitch’ to the level of incompetence behind this project, wherever the ultimate blame may lie ...
Codero Launches Industry-First On-Demand Hybrid Cloud
Codero Hosting launched a revolutionary first of its kind platform today called the On-Demand Hybrid Cloud. Among the numerous standout unique features is rapid hybrid cloud deployment and instant scalability. It is designed to give its customers the power of hybrid computing in a truly on-demand fashion, at the click of a mouse. So cloud ...
ObamaCare 911– All Tech Hands on Deck and To The Rescue
Today, President Barack Obama is expected to address the numerous technical issues surrounding the technology-challenged healthcare.gov website which has captured headlines stemming from its continued significant failures since launching almost three weeks ago. Reuters reports that the president plans to call out these “glitches” as “unacceptable” in remarks planned for today. He will also outline ...
3 Biggest Security Mistakes You’re Making – Without Even Knowing
You know where your most valuable data is stored. Your data is locked safely in a fortress of layered defenses. You’ve protected those treasures with well-configured edge devices, a lean fully-patched DMZ, a tightly woven net of firewall ACLs and an intentional architecture that separates your servers’ functions. Your logs are continually examined and anomalous ...
BitTorrent Megasite IsoHunt to Shut Down, Pay $110 M Settlement
isoHunt – a massively popular bit torrent sharing site will be shut down as part of a settlement following a piracy suit launched by a number of major Hollywood studios. The settlement also includes an agreement to pay $110 million pursuant to claims that the site encouraged pirating of television shows and movies. It was ...
Hacking ObamaCare – Is Your Data Safe?
Missing on stability is one thing. Missing the scale of operations, that’s another. Poor coding, well now that list piled up rather quickly didn’t it? Launching a major website with all of those things in question, that’s a whole other level. There has been some “circling the wagons” in response to an earlier article where ...
NSA Collects Email Contacts and Buddy Lists from 500,000 Accounts a Day
Another fresh leak from the Snowden files reported in the Washington Post reveal how the NSA is collecting data, specifically the online address books of American citizens. It’s just another of the continuing disclosures of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activity to come from the files and classified documents that were taken from Edward Snowden, ...
Anonymous Plans Million Mask March on Washington DC To Protest – Well, Everything
If you weren’t aware, November 5th is Guy Fawkes Day, and as one of the symbols of the Anonymous movement, the hacktivist collective is planning a massive march in Washington DC on the National Mall. The march has been labeled “the Million Mask March” and it is being put together to protest a laundry list ...
The ObamaCare Website – The Biggest Tech Gaggle Ever?
Despite the quiet here on this subject thus far at SiliconANGLE we have been keeping our eyes on what is possibly the biggest tech topic happening in the news right now. The issue at hand is the launch of ObamaCare online. It’s a hot topic that is philosophically dividing the country right now along political ...