Is it Time to Start Hacking the Hackers?

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	Is it Time to Start Hacking the Hackers? In the light of unprecedented attacks by cybercriminals against businesses that span every industry, this question has come to the fore: Is it time to fight back? Read More WHITE PAPER: Seeburger Implement One Platform for Secure & Efficient Data Transfer Operating on a fragmented IT infrastructure is a reality for many enterprises. The changing needs of business today requires an up-to-date IT infrastructure that's cost-effective and flexible. Learn about the benefits of using a single platform. View Now In this Issue What is a Vulnerability? NIST Subjects Draft Cybersecurity Framework to More Public Scrutiny U.S. Appetite for Internet User Data Not Unique Under Legal Pressure, Facebook Clarifies How it Uses Your Data Facebook's New Face Recognition Policy Astonishes German Privacy Regulator Microsoft: Talks with US Gov't on Surveillance Transparency Break Down VMware CTO Casado on Network Virtualization, Security and Competition with Cisco RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Prolexic Technologies Everything you need to know about SYN reflection attacks SYN reflection attacks are used against targets that support TCP. If a successful multi-step "handshake" cannot be completed between computers, repeated attempts are made. SYN reflection attacks misdirect these handshakes, flooding other machines with communication requests. Download the new white paper to learn more about this new threat. Download the full SYN Reflection white paper >>> What is a Vulnerability? Judging by initial appearances, our security testing turned up a ton of vulnerabilities nearly 150 of them. In reality, however, none represented actual issues in the Huawei switch. Read More NIST Subjects Draft Cybersecurity Framework to More Public Scrutiny NIST seeks feedback from industry on common practices to secure IT systems Read More U.S. Appetite for Internet User Data Not Unique Analysis of transparency reports from Google, Microsoft, Skype show other countries equally -- or more -- demanding. Read More WHITE PAPER: Apprenda Comparing Cloud Platform Options Download this comprehensive report from Gartner that compares cloud platform options for building and deploying .NET applications and evaluates their fit against common enterprise criteria. Learn More Under Legal Pressure, Facebook Clarifies How it Uses Your Data The clarifications come in response to a recent court ruling Read More Facebook's New Face Recognition Policy Astonishes German Privacy Regulator A German privacy regulator is astonished that Facebook has added facial recognition to a proposed new privacy policy it published on Thursday. Read More Microsoft: Talks with US Gov't on Surveillance Transparency Break Down Microsoft and Google will proceed with their lawsuits asking that they be able to publish surveillance request numbers Read More VMware CTO Casado on Network Virtualization, Security and Competition with Cisco How do you bring the virtualization operations model to networking? A That will be the job of Martin Casado, CTO of networking and security at VMware which this week launched NSX, the company's over-arching network virtualization package. Casado was one of the creators of OpenFlow, the protocol that spawned the software defined networking (SDN) movement. He was also the CTO of OpenFlow software provider Nicira, which VMware purchased in 2012, and which provides the basis for much of NSX. Casado met with Network World Senior Editor Ellen Messmer to talk about NSX networking and security implications. Read More
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