Mysterious malware targets industrial control systems, borrows Stuxnet techniques

Researchers have found a malware program that was designed to manipulate supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in order to hide the real readings from industrial processes.The same technique was used by the Stuxnet sabotage malware allegedly created by the U.S. and Israel to disrupt Iran's nuclear program and credited with destroying a large number of the country's uranium enrichment centrifuges.The new malware was discovered in the second half of last year by researchers from security firm FireEye, not in an active attack, but in the VirusTotal database. VirusTotal is a Google-owned website where users can submit suspicious files to be scanned by antivirus engines.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Mysterious malware targets industrial control systems, borrows Stuxnet techniques

Researchers have found a malware program that was designed to manipulate supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in order to hide the real readings from industrial processes.The same technique was used by the Stuxnet sabotage malware allegedly created by the U.S. and Israel to disrupt Iran's nuclear program and credited with destroying a large number of the country's uranium enrichment centrifuges.The new malware was discovered in the second half of last year by researchers from security firm FireEye, not in an active attack, but in the VirusTotal database. VirusTotal is a Google-owned website where users can submit suspicious files to be scanned by antivirus engines.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: IP addresses are not telephone numbers

A blanket association between telephone numbers and IP numbers and domain names is simply not useful. Here’s the problem — IP numbers and domain names are not telephone numbers. By using this analogy as the starting point for their rationale to consider IP numbers as CPNI, the FCC is beginning from a fundamentally flawed starting point. Circle ID

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Microsoft’s drastic upgrade tactic pays off with boost to Windows 10 share

Windows 10 in May recorded its largest increase in user share since August 2015, the first full month after its launch last summer, data published Wednesday showed.The impressive increase came after Microsoft began what will likely be its last big push to put the free Windows 10 on customers' PCs, a campaign that started mid-May and featured a much-derided trick to get users to approve the upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.According to U.S.-based analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10 powered 19.4% of all Windows PCs in May, a 2.1-point increase from the month before. Net Applications measures user share -- an estimate of the percentage of the global PC population that runs a particular operating system -- by tallying unique visitors to clients' websites.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Handling Criticism of Your Product

Members of the IT community at large sometimes find babies ugly, and express those opinions in public. That's how community works. We share knowledge, experience, and opinions. We agree. We disagree. We discuss. We speak through our microphones and keyboards, and it's all intended to be for the greater good. How should a vendor react?

OpenSwitch finds critical home at Linux Foundation

The OpenSwitch Project took a significant development step this week when it became the first full feature network operating system project of the Linux Foundation.+More on Network World: Feeling jammed? Not like this I bet+The move gives OpenSwitch a neutral home where it can receive all the necessary support for long-term growth and sustainability – including back-office, technical infrastructure and ecosystem development services, said Michael Dolan, VP of Strategic Programs at The Linux Foundation.While the Linux Foundation hosts other projects in the networking space, the addition of OpenSwitch makes available a complete NOS solution, from the ASIC drivers to the APIs,’ that will run on reference hardware and in hypervisors, he stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

OpenSwitch finds critical home at Linux Foundation

The OpenSwitch Project took a significant development step this week when it became the first full feature network operating system project of the Linux Foundation.+More on Network World: Feeling jammed? Not like this I bet+The move gives OpenSwitch a neutral home where it can receive all the necessary support for long-term growth and sustainability – including back-office, technical infrastructure and ecosystem development services, said Michael Dolan, VP of Strategic Programs at The Linux Foundation.While the Linux Foundation hosts other projects in the networking space, the addition of OpenSwitch makes available a complete NOS solution, from the ASIC drivers to the APIs,’ that will run on reference hardware and in hypervisors, he stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

OpenSwitch finds critical home at Linux Foundation

The OpenSwitch Project took a significant development step this week when it became the first full feature network operating system project of the Linux Foundation.+More on Network World: Feeling jammed? Not like this I bet+The move gives OpenSwitch a neutral home where it can receive all the necessary support for long-term growth and sustainability – including back-office, technical infrastructure and ecosystem development services, said Michael Dolan, VP of Strategic Programs at The Linux Foundation.While the Linux Foundation hosts other projects in the networking space, the addition of OpenSwitch makes available a complete NOS solution, from the ASIC drivers to the APIs,’ that will run on reference hardware and in hypervisors, he stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

May the Replicas Be With You

Darth DownImage by Reuters/Peter NichollsDon’t make dad feel like this on Fathers Day. One heck of an epic gift, if not intergalactically expensive, this foray into the darkside will set you back $3,500. This worker from the Propshop holds a replica of Darth Vader's melted helmet from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens".To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cisco & IBM are taking IoT analytics to the edge

The Internet of Things is no good without a way to act on the data it generates. A new partnership between two of the biggest IoT players promises to put smart collection and advanced analysis of data right where it’s needed.IBM and Cisco Systems have worked out how to run components of IBM’s Watson IoT analytics on Cisco edge devices. This will bring more intelligence closer to where the action is, helping enterprises run things like factories and oil rigs more efficiently.MORE: 10 Internet of Things Companies to WatchTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Groundbreaking jury verdict finds Utah firms made 117 million illegal telemarketing calls

In what the Federal Trade Commission is calling a first-of-its-kind verdict, a jury has found that a Utah man and his three movie companies are responsible for a variety of “deceptive and unlawful” selling practices that include 117 million illegal telemarketing calls.In a case that has already dragged on since 2011, the jury ruling enforces both the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule and its enormously popular Do Not Call Registry rules. The judge has yet to access civil penalties, but since they can be as high as $16,000 per violation it’s safe to assume the total will fall somewhere south of the $1.9 trillion maximum for just those illegal calls.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Groundbreaking jury verdict finds Utah firms made 117 million illegal telemarketing calls

In what the Federal Trade Commission is calling a first-of-its-kind verdict, a jury has found that a Utah man and his three movie companies are responsible for a variety of “deceptive and unlawful” selling practices that include 117 million illegal telemarketing calls. In a case that has already dragged on since 2011, the jury ruling enforces both the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule and its enormously popular Do Not Call Registry rules. The judge has yet to access civil penalties, but since they can be as high as $16,000 per violation it’s safe to assume the total will fall somewhere south of the $1.9 trillion maximum for just those illegal calls.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Oracle: We’re going to sue that whistleblower cloud employee

Oracle plans to sue whistleblower Svetlana Blackburn for malicious prosecution, the company said Thursday.On Wednesday, Blackburn -- a senior finance manager in Oracle’s cloud business -- said in a lawsuit she was terminated from her job for refusing to go along with cloud-computing accounting principles she considered unlawful.Blackburn alleges that upper management was trying to fit "square data into round holes" in a bid to boost the financial reports for Oracle's cloud services business that would be "paraded" before company leaders and investors.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FBI: Extortion e-mail, tech support scam-bags turning up the heat

Not that summer time has anything to do with it but the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned that e-mail extortion campaigns and the tedious tech support scams have heated up in recent weeks.+More on Network World: FBI warning puts car hacking on bigger radar screen+The IC3 said the recent uptick in email extortion comes from the data breaches at organizations like Ashley Madison, the IRS, Anthem and many others where tons personal information was stolen.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

OVS Orbit podcast with Ben Pfaff

OVS Orbit Episode 6 is a wide ranging discussion between Ben Pfaff and Peter Phaal of the industry standard sFlow measurement protocol, implementation of sFlow in Open vSwitch, network analytics use cases and application areas supported by sFlow, including: OpenStack, Open Network Virtualization (OVN), DDoS mitigation, ECMP load balancing, Elephant and Mice flows, Docker containers, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and microservices.

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Knights Landing Upgrade Will Push TACC Supercomputer to 18PF

During a trip to Dell in Austin, Texas this week, little did The Next Platform know that the hardware giant and nearby Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) had major news to share on the supercomputing front.

It appears the top ten-ranked Stampede supercomputer is set for an extensive, rolling upgrade—one that will keep TACC’s spot in the top tier of supercomputing sites and which will feature the latest Knights Landing processors and over time, a homogeneous Omni-Path fabric. The net effect of the upgrade will be a whopping 18 petaflops of peak performance by 2018.

The new system will begin …

Knights Landing Upgrade Will Push TACC Supercomputer to 18PF was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

CCNA R&S Track Changes: Should You Be Worried?

Learning@Cisco recently announced some changes to the CCNA routing & switching track to now include a taste of software defined networking, among other emerging technologies. With some consternation, CCNA candidates are scratching their heads, wondering what, exactly, this new tech means to them. After all, SDN "still does nothing," at least to hear some folks tell the tale. ;-) And yet, here we have Cisco starting to test on this stuff, right down at the associate level of their certification ladder.

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