by Joseph Forbes | Mar 31, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals
from the bankrolled-by-interested-parties dept. A DDoS attack targeting American Express on March 28th was just one in a series of incidents by self-proclaimed ‘cyber-fighters’ over the past few weeks. Beyond that, it’s part of a much longer campaign...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 31, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technical Support, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
from the like-soapy-water-for-your-inner-tube dept. I’m a ‘prosumer’ website builder, have a few sites that are mainly hobbies, but I would like to know that they’re at least fairly robust. I’m thinking of the equivalent of a...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 31, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
from the say-goodnight dept. Virtualization, cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing. Of the new data center space being built in...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, SECURITY
from the phishing-the-space-station dept. How is spacecraft development — from the space parts supply chain to actual space operations — protected from those who would try to penetrate or disrupt the networks involved in that process? The U.S. Air Force Research...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
Expion wins our test of eight enterprise-grade social media monitoring tools As businesses make more use of social networks, the number of engagement, analysis and monitoring tools has exploded. Enterprises are trying to understand their return on social media...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
We recently came across the file 1ac150ddb964722b6b7c96808763b3e4d0472daf during the course of regular research. We detect this file as Trojan:Win32/Preflayer.A. The file had been distributed with the file name FlashPlayer.exe and not surprisingly, when executed, it...
