John Casaretto

SiliconANGLE's CyberSecurity Editor - Have a story tip or feedback? Please reach out to me! Security is as critical as ever and our mission is to uncover those stories that will help our industry be more secure.

Latest from John Casaretto

#Antisec Mastermind Anarchaos Indicted in Lulzsec Cases

Jeremy “Anarchaos” Hammond has been indicted in the revised Anonymous/Lulzsec case, as charged by a federal grand jury.  The case includes the attacks against Stratfor and the Arizona Department of Public Safety.  While Hammond was one of the original named parties in the conspiracy indictment, he had not been charged with these acts at that ...

BYOD and Mobility Shape Big Data, Cloud Revolution

Mobile devices and the BYOD movement are elements of a significant wave of proliferation of a whole new infrastructure paradigm.  Virtual offices and remote employment scenarios continue to take hold in the enterprise.  The ubiquitous availability of mobile applications on smartphones, televisions, game consoles, tablets and all sorts of consumer products has created an expectation ...

Microsoft’s Hyper-V 3.0 Will Make Virtualization an Interesting Fight

Microsoft’s Virtualization platform known as Hyper-V has been a runner-up in the market to VMware’s virtualization platform, the latest version being vSphere 5.  The reasons for that could be many, some clients have distaste or distrust for Microsoft solutions in general, some may feel too ingrained with their VMware solution to even try anything else, ...

LulzSec Leaked VMware Code Raises Concerns and Implications

In an already busy week for cybersecurity news, it was revealed this week that source code for VMware ESX Hypervisor was leaked onto Pastebin.  A member of the notoriously familiar group LulzSec was identified as the source of the leak. A LulzSec hacker known as “Hardcore Charlie” was tied recently to an attack on China’s ...

LulzSec’s Sabu Exposed – Court Documents Released

A release of the conspiracy charges being released today against LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, known as “Sabu” have turned up on the Internet.  The document lays out the various charges in the case and is littered with charges such as fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy, access device fraud, Identity theft, just to name a few.  Specifically ...

LulzSec’s Sabu an FBI Informant as Arrests are Reported

Fox news has reported that the famed international computer hacking group Lulzsec has been significantly impacted by a number of arrests and that it’s top member has been working for the FBI. Hector Xavier Monsegur, an unemployed 28 year-old father of two has been identified as “Sabu”, a leader of LulzSec. Evidence he has provided ...

Intel Ivy Bridge Delays – Effect on HP Gen8

While not directly linked to the platform, there are questions surrounding HP’s Proliant Gen8 line and whether it may be delayed by Intel’s recent announcement that Ivy Bridge chipset has experienced production delays. The EETimes recently reported the delay of the mobile-focused next generation chipset with an estimated eight to ten week timetable, pushing the release ...

A New CEO for Codero: Emil Sayegh

News broke earlier this week on the national scene that HP cloud division VP Emil Sayegh has left HP for new pastures.  After a brief discussion with Emil, we discussed his history, his time at HP, where he is going, and what comes next.  Sayegh is joining cloud and internet provider Codero as CEO. Codero ...

HP Cloud VP Departure Telling of Cloud’s Market Potential

An undercurrent of turnover has been persistent when it comes to Hewlett Packard in the news. This includes the exodus of Dave Barr, engineering director for HP’s LeftHand Storage group, to cloud storage startup, Nirvanix.  Cloud Computing executive Emil Sayegh has a distinctive history that has navigated some of the biggest names in the industry. Once the ...

Stratfor CEO to resign after Wikileaks releases 5mil emails – covert operations exposed

Wikileaks has returned with an astonishing release of more than five million emails from Stratfor, a Texas-based security intelligence company that is associated with CIA type of operations. The company has been the target of hackers  in recent months. Though Wikileaks has not stated how it acquired the large cache of information, Anonymous members boasted ...