OpenStack Cloud Vendors Vigilant in the Face of NSA Snooping
The Edward Snowden revelations about NSA snooping in the cloud are not having an impact on OpenStack cloud vendors, including Rackspace and Dreamhost.
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Three types of DNS attacks and how to deal with them
The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacking group, altered the DNS records used by the New York Times, Twitter, and the Huffington Post. The changes forced one site offline and caused problems for the others. Here are three ways such attacks happen, and how they can be mitigated
Network Security Remains a Blind Spot for Businesses
Areas of blind spots within the typical enterprise are many, including applications, network traffic, network devices and user activity.
Cloud insecurity? It's a perception problem
I've long been a believer that a judgement gap, influenced largely by negative media coverage, is what continues to hold back cloud adoption among small organizations. And judging from the results of a recent study completed by comScore, my intuition has been fairly on track.
Q&A: ownCloud Provides Secure File Sharing for the Enterprise
File storage and sharing using consumer-oriented cloud services can be a security problem for companies that want to avoid sensitive data leaks. ownCloud aims to solve the issue by offering commercial cloud services installed within a company's own datacenter.
Commission wants to turn tables on IP thieves by crippling PCs with extortion-style lock-outs
Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property was a recommendation to copy a tactic cyber scammers use to extort money from innocent victims.
