UK Firms Hit With £25 Million Bill for Certificate-Related Outages

Venafi report claims IT leaders lack visibility, policy enforcement

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KILLER! Unpatched WinRAR Vulnerability Puts 500 Million Users At Risk

Beware Windows Users! A new dangerous unpatched Zero-day Vulnerability has been detected in the latest version of WinRAR affects over millions of users worldwide. According to Mohammad Reza Espargham, a security researcher at Vulnerability-Lab, the stable version of WinRAR 5.21 for Windows computers is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw. <!-- adsense --> WinRAR is one of

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Almost a Third of Users Do Nothing to Protect Online Payments, Rely on Financial Companies for Protection

A test conducted by Kaspersky Lab has shown that many users do not know (or know, but do not follow) basic security rules when making online payments or using online banking systems

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ATM Trojan Writers Tried to Set Alight AV Firm’s Offices

Dr Web in peril after cyber battle spilled into real world

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New Botnet Hunts for Linux — Launching 20 DDoS Attacks/Day at 150Gbps

A network of compromised Linux servers has grown so powerful that it can blow large websites off the Internet by launching crippling Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of over 150 gigabits per second (Gbps). The distributed denial-of-service network, dubbed XOR DDoS Botnet, targets over 20 websites per day, according to an advisory published by content delivery firm Akamai

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US-China agreement is cyberpeace for our time, in public anyway

The US-China agreement to stop economic espionage reached last Friday is historic, and helps preserve America's technological advantage. But will anyone other than its allies follow?










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Microsoft Chooses Ubuntu Linux for their Cloud-based Azure HDInsight Big Data Solution

Earlier this month, Microsoft surprised us all with the announcement that they built a Linux kernel-based operating system, Azure Cloud Switch (ACS), for developing software products for Network Devices. Now, Microsoft just announced that they have selected Ubuntu as the operating system for their Cloud-based Big Data services. <!-- adsense --> Yes, Microsoft needs Linux. To expand

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