Codero CEO Emil Sayegh says enough with the tech of the 90’s, step out of that closet.  For the typical business, it’s a provocative statement to think about.  Especially when Sayegh lays a number of the different things that can go wrong, the costs associated with the typical business running their own closet-based infrastructure, and ...

I keep thinking how in 2008’s The Dark Knight, during the frantic city-wide search for the Joker, Lucius Fox says to Bruce Wayne: “You took my sonar concept and applied it to every phone in the city. With half the city feeding you sonar, you can image all of Gotham. This is wrong…This is too ...

A Russian cybercriminal gang is operating on Facebook and it is using malware to drain the bank accounts of unsuspecting users.  Even worse, the evidence points to Zeus, a virus that has been around for about six years now. Constant evidence shows that Zeus is not slowing down by any measure.  That’s because Zeus is ...

The news of IBM buying SoftLayer in a recently announced deal was not a big surprise as it was rumored for some time, but it does mean some big new things for IBM. IBM was among the names that included EMC that were rumored for weeks to be courting the company to the tune of some ...

Anonymous has been involved in a campaign called #OpMonsanto which was launched against the global biotech company.  On Wednesday, Anonymous laid claim to have disabled Monsanto’s website.  The website appeared to have been affected for some time late in the evening.  Protests have erupted worldwide against the company, and reports have the numbers at over ...

The yearly BlackHat event that caters to those in the infosec community is still some weeks away, but the anticipation surrounding some of the topics is already starting.  Every year we’re treated to a variety of research that is announced at the event.  Much of it goes largely unnoticed by the public, but lately we ...

On today’s NewsDesk segment we discussed this situation with Chinese cyber-espionage and their sustained campaign again U.S. defense contractors, government agencies, and private industry.  It’s a perilous state of affairs to say the least.  I also made the point that we are in a new arms race only that this time around we are not ...

Kim Dotcom’s new Mega file service is coming under some fire as two major Hollywood Studios have gone to none other than Google to ask that the search engine giant block the Mega site from its search results.  Both NBC Universal and Warner Bros. have submitted requests to censor results that include Mega because they ...

Jeremy Hammond aka “Anarchaos” pled guilty in a federal case today to the December 2011 hacking of Strategic Forecasting, Inc, known to most as Stratfor.  The private intelligence firm was compromised under Anonymous operations that just preceded the early LulzSec days.  In the massive hack, 60,000 credit card numbers were stolen, and $700,000 in fraudulent charges were ...

The United States National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is the nuclear energy branch of the Department of Energy (DOE).  Their critical operations oversee a number of sensitive nuclear-related missions, including weaponry, nonproliferation, nuclear security, navy operations, counterterrorism and defense.  A recent announcement by the Iranian hacker group Parastoo directed its sights on the NNSA in ...