In June, South Korean hosting company Internet Nayana, Inc., was hit by a ransomware attack that took down its 153 Linux web servers — home to more than 5,000 customer websites. “I know that negotiations with hackers should not be done,” company CEO Hwang Chilghong said in a statement. “I would not negotiate with a […]
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The idea is simple. First, you encrypt all your data and put the key somewhere safe. Then you send the data off to a data center somewhere. When you need the data, you bring it back and decrypt it with your key. The people who run the data center have no way of getting to
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As we explained in an article earlier this week, the new European General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect next May, has wide-reaching implications for data center operators in and outside of Europe. We asked experts what steps they would recommend operators take to prepare. Read full article at Data Center Knowledge.
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The new European General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect next May and applies to any company, anywhere in the world, that collects sensitive data about European customers or employees. GDPR also comes with onerous breach notification requirements and high penalties for failing to comply, and data center operators may become prime targets for regulators’
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Researchers at top university and corporate labs around the world are in a furious race to create the first practical, usable quantum computer. Quantum computers — which use quantum bits, or qubits — are capable of running computations impossible for existing technology. It promises to open up new possibilities in areas like medical research, artificial
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The cybersecurity talent shortage keeps getting worse. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, the cost of cybercrime will double from $3 trillion globally in 2015 to $6 trillion by 2021. Meanwhile, the number of open cybersecurity jobs will increase from 1 million in 2016 to 1.5 million by 2019. Meanwhile, the scale and damage of the attacks
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Sonatype’s crown jewel is its database of descriptions of over 1.2 million open source packages. “If that is lost, it could be an existential outcome,” said Wayne Jackson, CEO of the Fulton, Maryland-based software supply chain management company. To shut down any such leak quickly, Sonatype monitors the web for any indications that its data
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The Office of Personnel Management breach in June 2015 was a big wake up call to our federal government, and, in its wake, a number of initiatives were launched to improve the government’s cybersecurity posture. Despite several concrete improvements, progress has stalled in some areas, as demonstrated by a series of assessments conducted since the
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Everybody knows and hates whitelisting. Employees are only allowed to install approved software on their desktops and laptops, so they’re always complaining and asking for exceptions. Management eventually gets fed up with it and stops the experiment. For mobile devices, enterprises have a number of tools at their disposal, including mobile device management. In addition,
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A couple of my friends have been redoing their professional portfolio websites lately, which inspired me to do some research on current trends in business and news website design. As a result of this research, I was finally inspired to bring this site up to date, and since I’m constitutionally incapable of doing something without
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The new European General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect next May, but a year might not be enough for firms to get ready
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The APT3 hacker group has been linked to the Chinese Ministry of State Security
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When the WannaCry malware hit, users scrambled for fixes. But some solutions were just malware in disguise
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Long Island’s Suffolk County is improving its emergency communications for National Hurricane Preparedness Week
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The massive scale of the recent WannaCry ransomware attack has exposed some significant weaknesses in global IT systems
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