DHS issues a national terrorism advisory system bulletin on 16 Dec 2015 advising all that: We are in a new phase in the global threat environment, which has implications on the homeland. Particularly with the rise in use by terrorist groups of the Internet to inspire and recruit, we are concerne...
J. Paul Haynes of eSentire has described the state of evolving email phishing attacks against businesses in a very compelling overview titled “Landing The Big Catch: How Sophisticated Phishing Attempts Are Effectively Intercepting International Wire Transfers.” The way phishing attacks a...
Ladies and Gentlemen, If you have not signed up for the 10 Nov 2015 FedCyber please do so now. The agenda has turned out to be one of the most incredible events we have pulled together. It includes a talk by the only member of Congress who has been a cyber analyst (Will Hurd), sessions on China [&...
The video at this link and embedded below is Cloudera’s Mike Olson‘s opening keynote for the 2015 NYC Strata + Hadoop World: Mike’s opening of Strata + Hadoop World started with some interesting context. Strata + Hadoop World is now a global event. Since partnering with O’Rei...
On August 28, the United States admitted to carrying out an airstrike, widely reported to have come from a drone, which killed an ISIS hacker by the name of Junaid Hussain. He was killed in Syria four days earlier on August 24. This strike represents the latest escalation in the United States’ evo...
Verisign’s Q1 2015 DDoS Trends Report reveals some interesting trends we should all be aware of. The report captures analysis and insights from Verisign including information derived from mitigations enacted on behalf of, and with cooperation with, customers of Verisign’s DDoS Protection Service...
Monday, Hortonworks unveiled a new version of of their Hortonworks Data Platform which will ease enterprise adoption by eliminating administration complexities, improving developer productivity, enhancing security and data governance and delivering proactive cluster monitoring. The Hortonworks Data ...
Really interesting post via BanyanOps New tech introduces changes in the way we have to fix and operate: Docker Hub is a central repository for Docker developers to pull and push container images. We performed a detailed study on Docker Hub images to understand how vulnerable they are to security th...