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Anyone could pull off a LostPass phishing attack to get all your LastPass passwords

Heads-up if you use LastPass as a security research released LostPass code on GitHub that bad guys could jump on immediately and an attack could be in the wild even now. In essence, if you use LastPass then you could be tricked into handing over the keys – or master password – to your digital kingdom.The LostPass attack works best in Chrome, but if you think you could spot the phishing then think again; Sean Cassidy, CTO of cloud-based cybersecurity firm Praesidio, warned that a user would not be able to tell a difference between a LastPass message displayed in the browser and the fake LostPass message since “it’s pixel-for-pixel the same notification and login screen.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

LastPass phishing attack could have scooped up passwords

A relatively simple phishing attack could be used to compromise the widely used password manager LastPass, according to new research. Notifications displayed by LastPass version 4.0 in a browser window can be spoofed, tricking people into divulging their login credentials and even snatching a one-time passcode, according to Sean Cassidy, who gave a presentation at the Shmoocon conference on Saturday. Cassidy, who is CTO of Praesido Inc., notified LastPass of the issues. In a blog post, LastPass said it has made improvements that should make such an attack harder to pull off without a user knowing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Building an OpenStack home lab – The Lab

I’ve recently started to play around with OpenStack and decided the best way to do so would be in my home lab.  During my first attempt, I ran into quite a couple of hiccups that I thought were worth documenting.  In this post, I want to talk about the prep work I needed to do before I began the OpenStack install.

For the initial build, I wanted something simple so I opted for a 3 node build.  The logical topology looks like this…

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The physical topology looks like this…

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It’s one of my home lab boxes.  A 1u Supermicro with 8 gigs of RAM and a 4 core Intel Xeon (X3210) processor.  The hard drive is relatively tiny as well coming in at 200 gig.  To run all of the OpenStack nodes on 1 server, I needed a virtualization layer so I chose ProxMox (KVM) for this.

However, running a virtualized OpenStack environment presented some interesting challenges that I didn’t fully appreciate until I was almost done with the first build…

Nested Virtualization
You’re running a virtualization platform on a virtualized platform.  While this doesn’t seem like a huge deal in a home Continue reading

FidSafe: A cloud service for important documents (and the price is right)

FidSafe is a new online repository for storing digital copies of your important documents such as wills, bank statements, tax returns, etc., so that “the critical files you need are available to you and your family whenever and wherever you need them, even after you’re gone.” And by “gone”  XTRAC LLC (a Fidelity Investments company), that offers FidSafe doesn’t mean that you’ve just popped out to get ice cream, they mean “gone” as in having joined the choir invisible.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Brocade Services Director 2.3 released

The Brocade Services Director (formerly known as SteelApp Services Controller) lets you automatically provision, deploy, license and manage the inventory of thousands of ADCs in an “as-a-service” model, using the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager as the core application delivery platform. The solution also enables a new consumption model for customers deploying ADC services. This allows ADC services... Read more →

Enterprise WLAN market is hot, but it’s all relative

Wireless LAN purchases aren't exactly going gangbusters these days, but relative to other enterprise infrastructure product sales, WLANs are where it's at.Synergy Research Group's latest figures show that WLAN sales grew 5% over the last 4 quarters vs. 2.3% for 7 segments measured overall (the others being data center servers, Ethernet switches, unified communications apps, routers and the slowest-growers -- voice systems and telepresence).Synergy Res Synergy Research Group While you might think that the general availability of faster and more flexible 802.11ac Wave 2 products from WLAN market leader Cisco, #2 HP/Aruba and others has sparked WLAN purchases, Synergy Chief Analyst and Managing Director John Dinsdale says that isn't necessarily the case.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

PlexxiPulse—Our CEO on “Cloud Builders”

The future of IT is rapidly changing. The transition to private and public clouds is forcing the need for integrated and elastic infrastructure. These changes are the impetus of a new role (and customer) called the Cloud Builder or Cloud Architect. Cloud Builders look at applications and data requirements from the perspective of business goals, not static technology silos. CEO Rich Napolitano details the parameters and implications of this new role in a blog post, and also outlines how Plexxi’s tools enable Cloud Builders to drive agility and workflow integration across what were once disparate compute, storage and network domains. Give it a read.

Below please find a few of our top picks for our favorite news articles of the week.

ITBusinessEdge: Converging Your Way to a New Data Center
By Arthur Cole
Vested interests in the IT industry have a lot riding on the hope that the enterprise will want to keep some of its infrastructure in-house rather than push everything onto the cloud as the decade unfolds. But this is only likely to happen if on-premises hardware is low-cost, highly scalable and maintains a tight footprint. This is why so many designers are touting converged and hyper-converged Continue reading

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