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An Ugly Week for Certificate Authorities: DigiNotar, GlobalSign, and ComodoHacker Collide
Certificate Authorities (CAs) make up the backbone of the web of trust for credit card transactions and secure communications between web browsers and web sites. Without this “web of trust” intact, people surfing the web cannot really trust that their credentials, confidential information, and so forth are actually secure when they access as web page. ...
Bitcoinica Adds a Little Forex Brokerage to the Bitcoin Ecology
Imagine the bustle of the crowds as traders hustle all around, jostling shoulders and elbows to get noticed by the man with the clipboard, waving their slips as they yell in the din. It’s not the 1940s on Wall Street anymore and now most of this is done by computers and often by people sitting ...
Forum User Passwords Possibly Stolen In Bitcointalk.org Bill Cosby Hack
Yesterday, Bitcoin enthusiast discussion forum Bitcointalk.org announced that an intruder compromised their forum software and may have had access to the password hashes–but the intruder seemed a lot more interested in plastering Bill Cosby all over in a forum prank. The attack happened on September 3, 2011 so if the attacker has the passwords, they ...
DigiNotar Breach and Fraudulent Certificates Investigation Reveals Incompetence
Last week, we at SiliconANGLE reported on a hack that struck at the root of the certificate authority that keeps the web safe came under significant attack. A certificate authority registrar, DigiNotar, lost control of its servers and an attacker became able to forge certificates pretending to be DigiNotar. This put numerous users in Iran ...
Anonymous Strikes Back: The Texan Sheriff HD Edition
Members of the hactivist collective, Anonymous, have been busy little chrome rats chewing on the insulation of the walls of the Internet and recently they released a data dump of law enforcement e-mails lining their nest. In a Pastebin release entitled with the hashtag #TexasTakedownThursday, which also cites #AntiSec and #FreeTopiary, the hack manifesto links ...
Wyse CEO Tarkan Maner Makes Plans to Disrupt the PC Paradigm
John Furrier and Dave Vellante brought Tarkan Maner, CEO of Wyse into theCube at VMworld 2011. and interviewed him about the direction Wyse is taking with their new products and what he sees happening with the PC and services market. Especially with an eye for the cloud and virtualization During the conversation, John brought up ...
Breach Embarrasses Kernel.org, Doesn’t Threaten Linux Security
This week brings dread news to the Linux community when many have learned that an unknown intruder managed to breach the fortified walls of Kernel.org—the storage home and distribution center for the Linux kernel. The intruder managed to gain root access to a server known as Hera and “a number of servers in the kernel.org ...
Juniper Networks: The Future of Cloud Security Rests Ultimately in Virtualization
As more businesses move from enterprise models into the cloud and begin to virtualize more of the network stack, the harsh light of security begins to pool from beneath the doorjamb. High availability networks that use virtual servers and cloud functionality generate challenges unheard of in traditional enterprise computing, so as a result the industry ...
John W. Thompson Leads Virtual Instruments for Virtualization Total Situational Awareness
John W. Thompson, CEO of Virtual Instruments, isn’t any stranger to taking the reins of large corporate edifices as Symantec former CEO and current Chairman of the Board. His new role at Virtual Instruments finds him lording over a company that develops solutions for understanding that happens deep within the infrastructure of storage area networks ...
Rick Jackson at VMworld 2011: Bringing Confidence and Empowerment into Cloud IT
Today in theCube, Dave Vellante and John Furrier spoke with Rick Jackson, VMware’s Chief Marketing Officer, about the direction VMware is going with their products and the nature and theme of VMworld 2011 itself. In fact, many people had been wondering at the banners placed around the venue with a bold, chest-puffed figure with crossed-arms ...