WannaCry Makes Me Want to Cry!

As I read about the WannaCry ransomware attack, my brain is racing with thoughts about the causes and effects of this global incident.  Here’s my two cents:1.      Ransomware continues to be a growth business, and a bit of work can provide a serious return.  The FBI estimated that Ransomware payments topped $1 billion in 2016, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw 100% year-over-year growth. 2.      For those of us who’ve been in cybersecurity for a while, WannaCry brings back memories of the Internet worms we saw back in the 2000s (i.e. Code Red, Conficker, MSBlast, Nimda, etc.).  Once one person on a network was infected, WannaCry simply went out and infected other vulnerable systems on the network.  I knew that worm techniques would come back but I always thought they’d be used as a smokescreen for other attacks.  Looks like Ransomware and Internet worms can be as compatible as chocolate and peanut butter.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Why WannaCry won’t change anything

The tally of damage from the WannaCry ransomware attack keeps growing, but it’s still not even close to bad enough to force real changes in cybersecurity. According to The New York Times, more than 200,000 machines in more than 150 countries around the world have been infected, but the responses being discussed still center around patches and passwords, updates and antivirus, backups and contingency plans. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Why WannaCry won’t change anything

The tally of damage from the WannaCry ransomware attack keeps growing, but it’s still not even close to bad enough to force real changes in cybersecurity. According to The New York Times, more than 200,000 machines in more than 150 countries around the world have been infected, but the responses being discussed still center around patches and passwords, updates and antivirus, backups and contingency plans. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cray Supercomputing as a Service Becomes a Reality

For a mature company that kickstarted supercomputing as we know it, Cray has done a rather impressive job of reinventing itself over the years.

From its original vector machines, to HPC clusters with proprietary interconnects and custom software stacks, to graph analytics appliances engineered in-house, and now to machine learning, the company tends not to let trends in computing slip by without a new machine.

However, all of this engineering and tuning comes at a cost—something that, arguably, has kept Cray at bay when it comes to reaching the new markets that sprung up in the “big data” days of …

Cray Supercomputing as a Service Becomes a Reality was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Shadow Brokers announce monthly data dump service

The Shadow Brokers are back once again, offering buyers not just exploits, but also “compromised network data from Russian, Chinese, Iranian, or North Korean nukes and missile programs.”Seemingly capitalizing on the success of WannaCry ransomware, which used EternalBlue and DoublePulsar – tools developed by the NSA’s Equation Group – the Shadow Brokers want to sell new exploits every month to people who pay a membership fee.The hacking group dubbed its new monthly subscription model “TheShadowBrokers Data Dump of the Month;” the service kicks off in June. The Shadow Brokers claim not to care what Data Dump of the Month service members do with the exploits. The group teased:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Shadow Brokers announce monthly data dump service

The Shadow Brokers are back once again, offering buyers not just exploits, but also “compromised network data from Russian, Chinese, Iranian, or North Korean nukes and missile programs.”Seemingly capitalizing on the success of WannaCry ransomware, which used EternalBlue and DoublePulsar – tools developed by the NSA’s Equation Group – the Shadow Brokers want to sell new exploits every month to people who pay a membership fee.The hacking group dubbed its new monthly subscription model “TheShadowBrokers Data Dump of the Month;” the service kicks off in June. The Shadow Brokers claim not to care what Data Dump of the Month service members do with the exploits. The group teased:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

I Will Be Presenting For the First Time at CLUS 2017!

Well, it looks like another major item will get struck from my bucket list this year. I’ve been accepted to present at Cisco Live in Las Vegas this summer! ?

This session is designed to walk through an enterprise network and look at how EIGRP can be engineered with purpose to best suit the needs of the different areas of the network. I will focus a lot on stability and scaling EIGRP and will show the audience how, where, and when to leverage common EIGRP features such as summarization, fast timers, BFD, and wide metrics. Before getting into the nuts and bolts, I will be doing a bit of a level-set on certain EIGRP features such as queries, going active, summarization, and support for flexible network hierarchies. I will round out the session by talking about how EIGRP has been optimized for use in Cisco’s Intelligent WAN (IWAN) solution and even touch on a not-so-commonly seen application of EIGRP: EIGRP Over-The-Top. The full session agenda looks like this:

I’m actually inheriting this session from a fellow CPOC engineer, Steve Moore who, un-coincidentally, is the same S. Moore whose name is on the EIGRP RFC. Steve will be presenting a sister session Continue reading

HPE shows off The Machine prototype without memistors

In 2004, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's Kirk Bresniker set out to make radical changes to computer architecture with The Machine and drew out the first concept design on a whiteboard.At the time Bresniker, now chief architect at HP Labs, wanted to build a system that could drive computing into the future. The goal was to build a computer that used cutting-edge technologies like memristors and photonics.It's been an arduous journey, but HPE on Tuesday finally showed a prototype of The Machine at a lab in Fort Collins, Colorado.It's not close to what the company envisioned with The Machine when it was first announced in 2014 but follows the same principle of pushing computing into memory subsystems. The system breaks the limitations tied to conventional PC and server architecture in which memory is a bottleneck.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

HPE shows off The Machine prototype without memistors

In 2004, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's Kirk Bresniker set out to make radical changes to computer architecture with The Machine and drew out the first concept design on a whiteboard.At the time Bresniker, now chief architect at HP Labs, wanted to build a system that could drive computing into the future. The goal was to build a computer that used cutting-edge technologies like memristors and photonics.It's been an arduous journey, but HPE on Tuesday finally showed a prototype of The Machine at a lab in Fort Collins, Colorado.It's not close to what the company envisioned with The Machine when it was first announced in 2014 but follows the same principle of pushing computing into memory subsystems. The system breaks the limitations tied to conventional PC and server architecture in which memory is a bottleneck.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

HPE shows off The Machine prototype without memristors

In 2004, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's Kirk Bresniker set out to make radical changes to computer architecture with The Machine and drew out the first concept design on a whiteboard.At the time Bresniker, now chief architect at HP Labs, wanted to build a system that could drive computing into the future. The goal was to build a computer that used cutting-edge technologies like memristors and photonics.It's been an arduous journey, but HPE on Tuesday finally showed a prototype of The Machine at a lab in Fort Collins, Colorado.It's not close to what the company envisioned with The Machine when it was first announced in 2014 but follows the same principle of pushing computing into memory subsystems. The system breaks the limitations tied to conventional PC and server architecture in which memory is a bottleneck.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

HPE shows off The Machine prototype without memristors

In 2004, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's Kirk Bresniker set out to make radical changes to computer architecture with The Machine and drew out the first concept design on a whiteboard.At the time Bresniker, now chief architect at HP Labs, wanted to build a system that could drive computing into the future. The goal was to build a computer that used cutting-edge technologies like memristors and photonics.It's been an arduous journey, but HPE on Tuesday finally showed a prototype of The Machine at a lab in Fort Collins, Colorado.It's not close to what the company envisioned with The Machine when it was first announced in 2014 but follows the same principle of pushing computing into memory subsystems. The system breaks the limitations tied to conventional PC and server architecture in which memory is a bottleneck.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Secure platforms as a service allow you to focus on function

Even though larger cloud providers offer security and implementation guidelines, companies still face significant risks and challenges when deploying secure applications to the cloud. A new class of security-focused cloud platforms promises to bridge this gap, bringing best-practices and regulatory compliance with the convenience of platform as a service (PaaS).Notable examples of this type of company include Datica, Healthcare Blocks and Aptible, all founded in 2013 and all container-based. These companies boast elite security and DevOps teams that work to secure their products and write new features.Their services are available at low price points and provide a convenient security framework that allows their customers to focus their development efforts on function rather than security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Secure platforms as a service allow you to focus on function

Even though larger cloud providers offer security and implementation guidelines, companies still face significant risks and challenges when deploying secure applications to the cloud. A new class of security-focused cloud platforms promises to bridge this gap, bringing best-practices and regulatory compliance with the convenience of platform as a service (PaaS).Notable examples of this type of company include Datica, Healthcare Blocks and Aptible, all founded in 2013 and all container-based. These companies boast elite security and DevOps teams that work to secure their products and write new features.Their services are available at low price points and provide a convenient security framework that allows their customers to focus their development efforts on function rather than security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

China pays for Windows XP addiction as ‘WannaCry’ hits

The WannaCry ransomware has wormed its way into tens of thousands of Windows PCs in China, where Windows XP runs one in five systems, local reports said Monday.More than 23,000 IP addresses in the People's Republic of China (PRC) show signs of infection, the country's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center (CNCERT) told Xinhua, the state-run news agency, on Monday.[ Further reading: Fighting ransomware: A fresh look at Windows Server approaches ] "Intranets in many industries and enterprises involving banking, education, electricity, energy, healthcare and transportation have been affected in different extents," CNCERT said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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