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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 ...
Fraudulent Google Certificate Put Iranian Users At Risk for Two Months
Recently, an Iranian user uncovered a man-in-the-middle attack occurring with some of Google’s own security certificates for domains such as *.google.com. As it appears, some Iranian ISP may be involved in silently intercepting communications by Iranian citizens over the Internet by supplying a broken security certificate to them for securely accessing Google’s properties. The worst ...
Mt. Gox Warns Bitcoin Popularity Attracting Increased Phishing Attacks
In a recent e-mail broadcast, Mt. Gox—the premier Bitcoin exchange struck by a hack that nearly devastated the entire market in June—the exchange administrators warn of the rising tide of phishing attacks directed at users. As the Bitcoin market gains popularity, and maintains a real value, scammers who want to take advantage of the inattention ...
Bitcoin Delivers Confidence for Online Casinos
Amid the Bitcoin community, gambling happens to be one of the first of the vices that most users stumble across. In fact, the prevalence of pyramid and Ponzi schemes plying for people to throw their bitcoins into them are quite common—although most of them are entirely in good fun as they openly announce exactly what ...
UK Police Continue Pursuit of Anonymous with Another Arrest in Hartlepool
Thursday, U.K. police charged yet another suspect in connection with the Anonymous led denial-of-service attacks (DDOS). A 22-year-old student, Peter David Gibson, of Hartlepool, was charged under the Criminal Law Act of 1977. He has been bailed out and expects to see his first court date on Sept 7. Gibson has been charged with conspiracy ...
East Coast Cell Phone Carriers Brace Themselves for Hurricane Irene
Natural disasters have a two-fold effect on infrastructure—and this is especially the case for wireless carriers—first there’s the actual damage caused to fiber, wire, and transmitter towers inflicted by the disaster itself and second there’s the sudden spike in usage by the population. Right now, Hurricane Irene is sailing its merry havoc towards the East ...
Here Stands Steve Jobs: Apple’s Once and Future CEO
By now, the ripples of Steve Jobs announcing his resignation as the CEO of Apple will have subsided and the cold realization will set in amid fan and computer aficionado alike—it’s the end of an epoch. Apple Inc. saw a meteoric rise to power under the benevolent ministrations of Jobs and it could be argued ...