Security startup Cybellum recently announced a new attack that they’re calling “DoubleAgent”. They’ve labelled this a zero day “attack for taking full control over major antiviruses and next-generation antiviruses”. There’s a lot to unpack here. When you’re assessing the risk any issue poses it’s always best to clearly define the issue. Let’s start there. The…
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If you’re moving your computing needs to Azure, security is probably one of your top concerns. I’ve written about this before, so I’ll assume you’ve already read it. If not, it’s worth taking a few minutes to get a grounding. Operations Once you’ve got a solid understanding of the security model in place on Azure,…
Read MoreWith any public cloud, security is a shared responsibility between the cloud service provider and you, the user of those services. For IaaS offerings, this usually means the division of responsibilities is as follows: Cloud Service Provider You Facilities Physical security Network infrastructure Virtualization layer Operating system Applications Data If you’ve done work…
Read MoreMicrosoft recently held their annual Build conference. The premier developer event for Microsoft is usually quite predictable. You could safely expect a few incremental improvements in various technologies and fantastic developer sessions on current tech. See for yourself; the sessions are online from 2012 and 2013. Things were different this year. I’ll be addressing the…
Read MoreReferencing Wikipedia: The Pythia , commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi, was the priestess at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. The Pythia was widely credited for her prophecies inspired by Apollo. Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) first user conference in November 2012 was over-subscribed and sold out. Given that the company offers all the infrastructure you need…
Read MoreThe mobile industry is a beautiful thing. If I sit back and ponder for a minute all of the things mobile technology has enriched in my life, I could easily write a book. The fact that I can take a picture and have it immediately shared to all of my friends and family in seconds…
Read MoreIs Virtualization stupid? It forces guest VMs sharing a host to do the same things over and over, without sharing. It takes up countless hours of otherwise useful – and expensive – server time.
Read MoreIn a recent eWeek interview, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby described Conficker malware as “the world’s largest cloud.” He’s right. Cybercriminals use Conficker to create massive clouds of remotely-controlled PCs capable of carrying out a variety of cyber-attacks, including DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on a scale larger than any centralized cloud provider could. We…
Read MoreToday’s disclosure by Google and Microsoft that they were tricked into serving malware highlights an inherent conflict of interest between advertising-based businesses and the security needs of their customers.
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