by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the too-much-effort dept. Last year, Rackspace planned to support third-party OpenStack distributions as part of its private cloud offering. That was then. ‘Things have evolved quickly as enterprises start evaluating their options in the cloud generally and...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | HACKING
In its report of an attack by Chinese hackers on the paper, the New York Times stated that the anti-virus software it employed only detected one strain of malware among a list of 45 different malicious programs. The New York Times used anti-virus software by Symantec...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the your-curtains-are-ugly dept. Eighteen brands of security camera digital video recorders are vulnerable to an attack that would allow a hacker to remotely gain control of the devices to watch, copy, delete or alter video streams at will, as well as to use the...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
from the much-lower-than-expected dept. In a project that found more than 80 million unique IP addresses responding to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) discovery requests, researchers at Rapid7 were shocked to find that somewhere between 40 and 50 million of those are...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the rome-wasn’t-built-in-5-years-either dept. Five years after the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Domain Name System dubbed the Kaminsky bug, only a handful of U.S. ISPs, financial institutions or e-commerce companies have deployed DNS...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the get-to-the-choppa! dept. Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies, or the Internet, InfoWorld reports. ‘A cyber war has been brewing for at least the past year, and although you...
