Monthly Archives: April 2015

Lack of Skilled Security Professionals, Flawed Infrastructure and Dark Web Make Cybercrime Easier

Lowered barriers to entry are making cybercrime easier than ever. This is according to the latest Websense Security Labs threat report released on Wednesday, which finds that there are three times the number of exploit kits being purchased from 2013. Flawed infrastructure along with an easy marketplace to access these… Continue reading

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Impact of NSA Surveillance on US Cloud Providers Not as Bad as We Thought: Forrester

It’s been two years since Edward Snowden leaked details of the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program, and although analysts predicted an exodus from US-based cloud and hosting services in response to the revelations, it hasn’t exactly worked out that way, a new report finds. Continue reading

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HP Says It Won’t Compete ‘Head-to-Head’ with Public Cloud Services

HP is no longer aiming to compete head-to-head with the likes of Amazon Web Services in the market for renting or buying computing, according to HP Helion product management SVP Bill Hilf as quoted in a New York Times blog post this week. Continue reading

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ISIS Sympathizers Continue to Exploit WordPress Vulnerabilities, FBI Warns

Researchers at the FBI continue to identify WordPress vulnerabilities as the door through which ISIS hackers are able to spread propaganda, the organization announced Tuesday. The FBI said that the low-level attacks are from those seeking the notoriety of being associated with ISIS rather than hackers who are actually part… Continue reading

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