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IDG Contributor Network: How the government can help businesses fight cyber attacks

When a criminal robs a store, the police visit the scene, conduct an investigation and try to bring the perpetrator to justice. What happens when a criminal breaches that same store’s server and makes off with its customer’s credit-card numbers? I’d argue that the response to the physical crime would be much greater and effective than how the cyber crime would be handled, although cyber attacks have the potential to cause more damage than robberies.Blame cyber criminals, not nation-states, for attacks While nation-states are typically blamed for breaches, the culprits are usually cyber criminals who are using nation-state techniques and procedures. Companies likely claim infiltration by nation-state attackers because it provides them with some cover from lawsuits and preserves business deals and partnerships. (Yahoo is using this tactic with little success.) The reasoning could look like this: how could our organization protect itself from attackers who have the support and resources of a major government? We’re simply outgunned.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: How the government can help businesses fight cyber attacks

When a criminal robs a store, the police visit the scene, conduct an investigation and try to bring the perpetrator to justice. What happens when a criminal breaches that same store’s server and makes off with its customer’s credit-card numbers? I’d argue that the response to the physical crime would be much greater and effective than how the cyber crime would be handled, although cyber attacks have the potential to cause more damage than robberies.Blame cyber criminals, not nation-states, for attacks While nation-states are typically blamed for breaches, the culprits are usually cyber criminals who are using nation-state techniques and procedures. Companies likely claim infiltration by nation-state attackers because it provides them with some cover from lawsuits and preserves business deals and partnerships. (Yahoo is using this tactic with little success.) The reasoning could look like this: how could our organization protect itself from attackers who have the support and resources of a major government? We’re simply outgunned.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Last Three days for the 10 days Online CCDE Practical Bootcamp

Last three days for the November 10 days Online CCDE Bootcamp ! By November 1, I am going to start my NEW CCDE Practical Lab Training. There are couple things to highlight. Online Bootcamp is Instructor-Led Bootcamp. I will be in the class and explain everything you need to pass the CCDE Practical exam. Instructor Led doesn’t […]

The post Last Three days for the 10 days Online CCDE Practical Bootcamp appeared first on Cisco Network Design and Architecture | CCDE Bootcamp | orhanergun.net.

The New Intelligence Economy, And How We Get There

Earlier this month, Samsung acquired Viv, the AI platform built by the creators of Siri that seeks to “open up the world of AI assistants to all developers.” The acquisition was largely overshadowed by the more high-profile news of Samsung’s struggles with its Galaxy Note smartphone, but make no mistake, this was a bold and impactful move by Samsung that aggressively launches the company into the future of smart, AI-enabled devices.

Viv co-founder Dag Kittlaus makes a compelling argument for why Samsung’s ecosystem serves as an invaluable launching pad for Viv’s goal of ubiquity – the electronics giant’s …

The New Intelligence Economy, And How We Get There was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The New Intelligence Economy, And How We Get There

Earlier this month, Samsung acquired Viv, the AI platform built by the creators of Siri that seeks to “open up the world of AI assistants to all developers.” The acquisition was largely overshadowed by the more high-profile news of Samsung’s struggles with its Galaxy Note smartphone, but make no mistake, this was a bold and impactful move by Samsung that aggressively launches the company into the future of smart, AI-enabled devices.

Viv co-founder Dag Kittlaus makes a compelling argument for why Samsung’s ecosystem serves as an invaluable launching pad for Viv’s goal of ubiquity – the electronics giant’s …

The New Intelligence Economy, And How We Get There was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

IDG Contributor Network: How much does a data breach actually cost?

The American public has become so inured to data breaches that it’s difficult to remember them all. Infamous breaches like the ones at Target and Sony become almost forgettable when confronted with the recently disclosed half-billion accounts compromised at Yahoo in 2014.The numbers are simply staggering. It is estimated over 900,000,000 records of personally identifiable information (PII) have been stolen in the U.S. over the past few years. Keeping a memory of all the hacks and when they happened may require the use of complex data visualization.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: How much does a data breach actually cost?

The American public has become so inured to data breaches that it’s difficult to remember them all. Infamous breaches like the ones at Target and Sony become almost forgettable when confronted with the recently disclosed half-billion accounts compromised at Yahoo in 2014.The numbers are simply staggering. It is estimated over 900,000,000 records of personally identifiable information (PII) have been stolen in the U.S. over the past few years. Keeping a memory of all the hacks and when they happened may require the use of complex data visualization.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

What’s New in Tower 3: Search

In July, we released Ansible Tower 3. In this blog series, we will take a deeper dive into Tower changes designed to make our product simpler and easier to scale Ansible automation across your environments. In our last post, our Principal Software Engineer Matt Jones highlighted what’s new for Tower 3 notifications.

If you’d like to learn more about the release, our Director of Product Bill Nottingham wrote a complete overview of the Tower 3 updates.

Simplifying Search

Tower gives you the ability to manage the use of Ansible for an entire enterprise, allowing you to potentially manage hundreds of Playbooks and thousands of hosts in a single place. Tower also gives you the ability to audit all types of usage through its integrated activity stream, which can be verbose. One of the goals of Tower 3 was to provide a consistent and full-featured user interface for dealing with these large collections of data.

In Tower 2, searching these collections was pretty limited. You could only make a single query for a particular collection. In Tower 3, we developed and implemented a tag-based searching system throughout the app, allowing you to chain multiple queries together so that you can quickly Continue reading

Configuring Raspberry Pi as a router

Pennsylvania man sentenced to 18 months for celeb hacking

A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison on charges of hacking the Google and Apple email accounts of over 100 people including celebrities, and getting access to nude videos and photographs of some people.The sentencing against Ryan Collins, 36, of Lancaster is the offshoot of a Department of Justice investigation into the online leaks of photographs of numerous female celebrities in September 2014, widely referred to as "Celebgate."But DOJ has not found any evidence linking Collins to the actual leaks or the sharing and uploading of the content.Between November 2012 and early September 2014, Collins is said to have sent e-mails to victims that appeared to be from Apple or Google and asked them to provide their usernames and passwords. Having gained access to the email accounts, he got hold of personal information including nude photographs and videos, and in some cases used a software program to download the entire contents of the victims' Apple iCloud backups, according to DOJ.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Pennsylvania man sentenced to 18 months for celeb hacking

A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison on charges of hacking the Google and Apple email accounts of over 100 people including celebrities, and getting access to nude videos and photographs of some people.The sentencing against Ryan Collins, 36, of Lancaster is the offshoot of a Department of Justice investigation into the online leaks of photographs of numerous female celebrities in September 2014, widely referred to as "Celebgate."But DOJ has not found any evidence linking Collins to the actual leaks or the sharing and uploading of the content.Between November 2012 and early September 2014, Collins is said to have sent e-mails to victims that appeared to be from Apple or Google and asked them to provide their usernames and passwords. Having gained access to the email accounts, he got hold of personal information including nude photographs and videos, and in some cases used a software program to download the entire contents of the victims' Apple iCloud backups, according to DOJ.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

NAPALM Update on Software Gone Wild

We did a podcast describing NAPALM, an open-source multi-vendor abstraction library, a while ago, and as the project made significant progress in the meantime, it was time for a short update.

NAPALM started as a library that abstracted the intricacies of network device configuration management. Initially it supported configuration replace and merge; in the meantime, they added support for diffs and rollbacks

Personal data of 550,000 Red Cross blood donors was breached

The Australian Red Cross said its blood donor service has found that registration information of 550,000 donors had been compromised, which the agency blamed on human error by a third-party contractor.The moot issue at this point, which may decide how the breach unfolds, is that nobody knows how many people have the data. The information from 2010 to 2016 was available on the website from Sept. 5 to Oct. 25. this year.The database backup, consisting of 1.74GB with about 1.3 million records, contains information about blood donors, such as name, gender, physical address, email address, phone number, date of birth, blood type, country of birth, and previous donations, according to security researcher Troy Hunt.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Personal data of 550,000 Red Cross blood donors was breached

The Australian Red Cross said its blood donor service has found that registration information of 550,000 donors had been compromised, which the agency blamed on human error by a third-party contractor.The moot issue at this point, which may decide how the breach unfolds, is that nobody knows how many people have the data. The information from 2010 to 2016 was available on the website from Sept. 5 to Oct. 25. this year.The database backup, consisting of 1.74GB with about 1.3 million records, contains information about blood donors, such as name, gender, physical address, email address, phone number, date of birth, blood type, country of birth, and previous donations, according to security researcher Troy Hunt.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AWS Revenues Soar Again, but Amazon’s Q3 Misses

Public cloud is so good, it's almost boring.

VRF-Aware SNMP on Brocade VDX

SNMP was not designed with VRFs in mind. Querying the routing table via SNMP did not take into account the idea of having multiple routing tables. But clearly it’s something people want to do, so some clever engineers figured out how to shoe-horn VRF contexts in. This week a customer asked me how to query the routing table for the non-default VRF on Brocade VDX switches. Here’s how to do it:

VRF Configuration

For this lab I have Loopback 1 in the default VRF, with an IP of 50.50.50.50/32. I’ve created another VRF called “internet”, and put Loopback 2 in that VRF, with IP 60.60.60.60/32. Now I have two different routing tables:

VDX6940-204063# sh run rb 1 int loop 1
rbridge-id 1
interface Loopback 1
no shutdown
ip address 50.50.50.50/32
!
!
VDX6940-204063# sh ip route
Total number of IP routes: 1
Type Codes - B:BGP D:Connected O:OSPF S:Static U:Unnumbered +:Leaked route; Cost - Dist/Metric
BGP Codes - i:iBGP e:eBGP
OSPF Codes -  Continue reading

VRF-Aware SNMP on Brocade VDX

SNMP was not designed with VRFs in mind. Querying the routing table via SNMP did not take into account the idea of having multiple routing tables. But clearly it’s something people want to do, so some clever engineers figured out how to shoe-horn VRF contexts in. This week a customer asked me how to query the routing table for the non-default VRF on Brocade VDX switches. Here’s how to do it:

VRF Configuration

For this lab I have Loopback 1 in the default VRF, with an IP of 50.50.50.50/32. I’ve created another VRF called “internet”, and put Loopback 2 in that VRF, with IP 60.60.60.60/32. Now I have two different routing tables:

VDX6940-204063# sh run rb 1 int loop 1
rbridge-id 1
interface Loopback 1
no shutdown
ip address 50.50.50.50/32
!
!
VDX6940-204063# sh ip route
Total number of IP routes: 1
Type Codes - B:BGP D:Connected O:OSPF S:Static U:Unnumbered +:Leaked route; Cost - Dist/Metric
BGP Codes - i:iBGP e:eBGP
OSPF Codes -  Continue reading

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