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Are communications service providers confident in open source networking solutions?
2018-09-28 05:15

The Linux Foundation announced the results of an industry survey to gauge industry perceptions of open source across networking technologies. Top takeaways from the survey indicate an increasing...

ISACA introduces new credential to build and recognize auditors’ cybersecurity knowledge
2018-09-28 05:00

Auditors are being required to audit cybersecurity processes, policies and tools to provide assurance that their enterprise has appropriate controls in place. To help them acquire and prove these...

Your specialist subject? The bleedin' obvious... Feds warn of RDP woe
2018-09-28 03:31

We'd assume sysadmins knew this, if SamSam wasn't still rampaging through nteworks The FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security have added their voices to warnings of insecure deployments of...

Blue Cedar collaborates with OpenSSL, Akamai, NetApp, and VMware to develop FIPS module
2018-09-28 03:30

Blue Cedar has joined an industry initiative to develop the open-source FIPS 140-2 module for OpenSSL. Blue Cedar will collaborate with Open SSL, Akamai, NetApp, and VMware, in the effort to...

Continuum expands cloud capabilities in remote monitoring, backup and security
2018-09-28 03:00

Continuum announced new cloud capabilities across its IT Management Platform. In an age of digital transformation and multi-environment infrastructures, IT service providers need a management...

Resident evil: Inside a UEFI rootkit used to spy on govts, made by you-know-who (hi, Russia)
2018-09-28 02:07

Deep dive into motherboard firmware-lurking code A UEFI rootkit, believed to have been built from an anti-thief software program by Kremlin spies to snoop on European governments, has been...

Ixia delivers visibility into network traffic through Microsoft Azure Virtual Network TAP
2018-09-28 02:00

Keysight Technologies announced it has extended the Ixia CloudLens visibility platform to provide packet-level visibility into virtual machine network traffic through Microsoft Azure Virtual...

Booz Allen launches District Defend, new location-aware technology
2018-09-28 01:30

Booz Allen Hamilton announced the availability of new mobility technology — District Defend — that uses security protocols to make the management of mobile devices like tablets in sensitive and...

The DEF CON hackers' report on US voting machine security is just as grim as feared
2018-09-28 01:04

Good thing Congress has been so forceful in improving security Hackers probing America's electronic voting systems have painted an astonishing picture of the state of US election security, less...

Aerohive expands cloud-managed SD-WAN portfolio with new XR600P branch router
2018-09-28 01:00

Aerohive Networks announced its XR600P SD-WAN branch router is now shipping. The XR600P is the latest addition to Aerohive’s growing SD-WAN portfolio, designed to simplify the management,...