Banking hackers left a clue that may link them to North Korea

The notorious hackers behind a string of banking heists have left behind a clue that supports a long-suspected link to North Korea, according to security researchers.The so-called Lazarus Group has been eyed as a possible culprit behind the heists, which included last February’s $81 million theft from Bangladesh’s central bank through the SWIFT transaction software.However, hackers working for the group recently made a mistake: They failed to wipe the logs from a server the group had hacked in Europe, security firm Kaspersky Lab said on Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Banking hackers left a clue that may link them to North Korea

The notorious hackers behind a string of banking heists have left behind a clue that supports a long-suspected link to North Korea, according to security researchers.The so-called Lazarus Group has been eyed as a possible culprit behind the heists, which included last February’s $81 million theft from Bangladesh’s central bank through the SWIFT transaction software.However, hackers working for the group recently made a mistake: They failed to wipe the logs from a server the group had hacked in Europe, security firm Kaspersky Lab said on Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

35% off Airfox Backlit LED Mouse Bungee with Integrated 3-Port USB Hub and Charger – Deal Alert

The Airfox Gaming Mouse Bungee is designed to eliminate drag from your mouse cord, giving you the speed, nimbleness and responsiveness of a wireless mouse. An integrated 3-port USB 3.0 hub, and fast device-charging port are also included, as is a 7-color LED backlight. The typical list price of $29.99 has been reduced 35% to $19.47. See this deal on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Welcoming FRRouting to The Linux Foundation

It’s our pleasure to start the week off announcing the release of FRRouting to the open community. We worked closely with several other partners to make this launch happen and we’ll be integrating it with our products in upcoming releases. It’s a constant priority of ours to ensure we are contributing, maintaining and inspiring contributions to the community, and this release truly provides a solution that will be welcomed from many industries.

The following post was originally published on the Linux Foundation’s blog. They have graciously given us permission to republish, as the post does a fantastic job of describing the release. We’ve added a few sentences at the end to tie it all together. We hope you enjoy.

One of the most exciting parts of being in this industry over the past couple of decades has been witnessing the transformative impact that open source software has had on IT in general and specifically on networking. Contributions to various open source projects have fundamentally helped bring the reliability and economics of web-scale IT to organizations of all sizes. I am happy to report the community has taken yet another step forward with FRRouting.

FRRouting (FRR) is an IP routing protocol suite Continue reading

SaferVPN says it takes the risk out of using public Wi-Fi connections  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.  Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) has become a fairly standard practice in most businesses today. Who among us hasn’t pulled out their cell phone to do a quick check of company email while killing time in a restaurant or a checkout line? The prevalence of public Wi-Fi makes it so easy to connect and tend to a little business while on the go.Many people look at public Wi-Fi as a convenience, or even as a requirement, when choosing where to spend time and money. Look in the window of any coffee shop today and count how many people are engaged with a laptop, tablet or mobile phone. How many of them would still be there if the shop didn’t provide free Wi-Fi?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

SaferVPN says it takes the risk out of using public Wi-Fi connections  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.  Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) has become a fairly standard practice in most businesses today. Who among us hasn’t pulled out their cell phone to do a quick check of company email while killing time in a restaurant or a checkout line? The prevalence of public Wi-Fi makes it so easy to connect and tend to a little business while on the go.Many people look at public Wi-Fi as a convenience, or even as a requirement, when choosing where to spend time and money. Look in the window of any coffee shop today and count how many people are engaged with a laptop, tablet or mobile phone. How many of them would still be there if the shop didn’t provide free Wi-Fi?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

March 2017: The month in hacks and breaches

March came in like a lion with news breaking on March 6 that spamming operation River City Media exposed 1.34 billion email accounts, some of which included personal information including full names and addresses. How did this happen? The company failed to properly configure their Rsync backups, wrote CSO’s Steve Ragan.Later that week, WikiLeaks released a trove of information on the CIA’s hacking tools, including descriptions of how the agency targeted iPhones, Android phones, Samsung smart TVs, and routers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

March 2017: The month in hacks and breaches

March came in like a lion with news breaking on March 6 that spamming operation River City Media exposed 1.34 billion email accounts, some of which included personal information including full names and addresses. How did this happen? The company failed to properly configure their Rsync backups, wrote CSO’s Steve Ragan.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Windows 7 is in no rush to leave

Microsoft Windows 7 may not go quietly into the night, according to data published Saturday.March's Windows 7 user share -- an estimate of the percentage of the world's personal computers powered by the 2009 operating system -- was 49%, said analytics vendor Net Applications. However, Windows 7 ran 54% of all Windows machines: The difference between the user share of all PCs and only those running Windows stemmed from Windows powering 92% of the globe's personal computers, not 100%.More importantly, Windows 7's share has barely moved in the last 12 months. Since this time in 2016, it's dropped just 2.5 percentage points, representing a meager 5% decline. As a portion of just Windows personal computers, Windows 7 has been even more obstinate, remaining steady over the past year at 54%.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

We Are None Of Us Imposters: An Allegory

Sitting in the conference room, I looked up at the whiteboard covered in a clever design. I hadn’t understood the design immediately, but then as my mentor explained it to me, I comprehended the brilliance of it.

“That was…that was clever. Really. Elegant even. I never would have come up with that on my own. I learned something from you today, and I appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time.”

“Oh, I can’t take credit for the design. I got most of it from this book here. If anything, the credit goes to the author.”

And so I took a look at the book, and searched online for the author’s name. Her information popped up in my browser, and I sent her an e-mail.

“Thanks for the design you recommended in your book. It’s very clever, and we’re going to be testing it for use in our company. I think you’ve solved some problems for us. We really appreciate it.”

After a few days, her reply came back.

“Naturally, I’m happy that the book is a benefit to you, but honestly, that design is a reflection of an interview I had with a research team. They did all the heavy lifting and Continue reading

Beyond Trust: privilege, vulnerability management available through Azure

Users of Azure cloud services have a new option for stopping the misuse of privileges as well as managing vulnerabilities through an alliance with Beyond Trust.Azure customers who buy Beyond Trust licenses can host PowerBroker, the company’s privileged access management (PAM) and its vulnerability management (VM) platform, Retina, in their Azure cloud instances.They can host BeyondSaaS perimeter vulnerability scanning in Azure as well. Both are available via the Azure Marketplace.These new services give Beyond Trust customers a third option for how they deploy PAM and VM. Before they could extend a local instance of Beyond Trust’s security to the Azure cloud via software connectors or deploy it within the cloud using software agents deployed on virtual machines there.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Beyond Trust: privilege, vulnerability management available through Azure

Users of Azure cloud services have a new option for stopping the misuse of privileges as well as managing vulnerabilities through an alliance with Beyond Trust.Azure customers who buy Beyond Trust licenses can host PowerBroker, the company’s privileged access management (PAM) and its vulnerability management (VM) platform, Retina, in their Azure cloud instances.They can host BeyondSaaS perimeter vulnerability scanning in Azure as well. Both are available via the Azure Marketplace.These new services give Beyond Trust customers a third option for how they deploy PAM and VM. Before they could extend a local instance of Beyond Trust’s security to the Azure cloud via software connectors or deploy it within the cloud using software agents deployed on virtual machines there.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Speed up slow web pages with this simple trick

Increasing the size of images and text will speed up web page delivery, say scientists. This counter-intuitive idea has been put forward as a solution to latency in browser page loading.The reason the idea works, in theory at least, is that the larger image pushes subsequent, following images farther down the page and out of the browser’s work area. Consequently the browser has less to do, pulls less data and provides a faster delivery of content.The researchers, who are from Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering, say this fiendishly simple idea will work particularly well for developers working with airplane networks, where it will stop browsers struggling to load a page. Airplane Wi-Fi can be hindered by latency, they explain.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

UEFI flaws can be exploited to install highly persistent ransomware

Over the past few years, the world has seen ransomware threats advance from living inside browsers to operating systems, to the bootloader, and now to the low-level firmware that powers a computer's hardware components.Earlier this year, a team of researchers from security vendor Cylance demonstrated a proof-of-concept ransomware program that ran inside a motherboard's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) -- the modern BIOS.On Friday, at the Black Hat Asia security conference, the team revealed how they did it: by exploiting vulnerabilities in the firmware of two models of ultra compact PCs from Taiwanese computer manufacturer Gigabyte Technology.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

UEFI flaws can be exploited to install highly persistent ransomware

Over the past few years, the world has seen ransomware threats advance from living inside browsers to operating systems, to the bootloader, and now to the low-level firmware that powers a computer's hardware components.Earlier this year, a team of researchers from security vendor Cylance demonstrated a proof-of-concept ransomware program that ran inside a motherboard's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) -- the modern BIOS.On Friday, at the Black Hat Asia security conference, the team revealed how they did it: by exploiting vulnerabilities in the firmware of two models of ultra compact PCs from Taiwanese computer manufacturer Gigabyte Technology.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

What’s New in Ansible Tower 3.1

Ansible Tower by Red Hat

Ansible Tower 3.1 adds a variety of new features that make it easier than ever to share and scale IT automation. Tower now includes multi-Playbook workflows to streamline jobs, clustering to easily scale-out Tower instances, enhanced search and more.

For this post, we asked members of the Tower engineering team to highlight what’s new with the latest release and share what they're most excited about.

Engineered for the enterprise

Tim Cramer, Senior Director of Engineering, shares a quick overview of the Tower 3.1 enhancements designed to help teams harness the power of Ansible automation across servers, applications, environments and networks:

 

Scale-out clustering

Matt Jones, Principal Software Engineer, explains how scale-out clustering enables you to support a larger number of Tower jobs:

 

Multi-Playbook workflows

Chris Meyers, Senior Software Engineer, describes how Tower's new multi-Playbook workflows promote greater re-use of existing job templates and allow you to build a CI/CD testing workflow:

 

And more...

“One of the things we are most excited about in Ansible Tower 3.1 is localization. This is the first release of Tower that has been localized. Tower is now available in Japanese and French. We went through a lot of thought as to where we wanted Continue reading

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