Facebook Plans to Build Its Own Chips For Hardware Devices

A new job opening post on Facebook suggests that the social network is forming a team to build its own hardware chips, joining other tech titans like Google, Apple, and Amazon in becoming more self-reliant. According to the post, Facebook is looking for an expert in ASIC and FPGA—two custom silic...

Hackers leave US flag after targeting Cisco switches in Russia & Iran

By Waqas Cisco switches at data centers located in Iran and Russia This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers leave US flag after targeting Cisco switches in Russia & Iran...

600 Powerful Bitcoin-Mining Computers Worth $2 Million Stolen In Iceland

Around 600 powerful devices specifically designed for mining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been stolen from Icelandic data centers in what has been dubbed the "Big Bitcoin Heist." To make a profit, so far criminals have hacked cryptocurrency exchanges, spread mining malware, and...

Forbes Ranks Carbon Black As a Top Cloud Company for 2017

Today, Forbes announced its 2017 Forbes Cloud 100 list, a full ranking of the world’s top privately-held cloud companies. We are proud be named on the list alongside such innovators as Slack, Dropbox, DocuSign, Stripe, Cloudera and others. This is the second consecutive year Carbon Black has been...

Hands-On Review: Converged Networking and Security with Cato Networks

Nobody likes to do router and firewall management. It often requires a lot of hard labor just keeping the infrastructure up and running. If you ever had to set up IPsec tunnels between different firewall brands, change a firewall rule and hope nothing breaks, upgrade to the latest software or...

'MethBot' Ad Fraud Operators Making $5 Million Revenue Every Day

The biggest advertising fraud ever! A group of hackers is making between $3 Million to $5 Million per day from United States brands and media companies in the biggest digital ad fraud ever discovered. Online fraud-prevention firm White Ops uncovered this new Ad fraud campaign, dubbed "Methbot,"...

This Open Source 25-Core Processor Chip Can Be Scaled Up to 200,000-Core Computer

Researchers have designed a new computer chip that promises to boost the performance of computers and data centers while processing applications in parallel. Princeton University researchers have developed a 25-core open source processor, dubbed Piton named after the metal spikes used by rock...

Iran orders all Messaging Apps to store its citizens' data within Country

Last year, Iran blocked Telegram and many other social networks after their founders refused to help Iranian authorities to spy on their citizens. Now it looks like Iranian government wants tighter controls on all foreign messaging and social media apps operating in the country that will give the...

A Brief History of the Internet in Northern Virginia

Earlier today I happened to see a short piece from the Bloomberg Businessweek "The Year Ahead: 2016" issue, titled The Best Places to Build Data Centers. The text said the following: Cloud leaders including Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and upstart DigitalOcean are spending tens of billions...

​Google, Yahoo, Facebook Collaborate to Blacklist Bad Bots

The major tech companies including Google, Facebook, and Yahoo! have joined their hands to launch a new program meant to block fake web traffic by blacklisting flagged IP addresses. Today, majority of data center traffic is non-human or illegitimate, so to fight against this issue the Trustworthy...

VMS users please note:Venom vulnerability than Heartbleed also risk-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Data centers are mostly using the host system management program host hypervisior to isolate a single server to run multiple virtual machine instances, but this is the underlying structure, it is found that the presence of the 1 0 years of“virtual environments neglected of business operation”in t...

Venom Vulnerability Exposes Most Data Centers to Cyber Attacks

Just after a new security vulnerability surfaced Wednesday, many tech outlets started comparing it with HeartBleed, the serious security glitch uncovered last year that rendered communications with many well-known web services insecure, potentially exposing Millions of plain-text passwords. But...

Yahoo Previews End To End Email Encryption

Following up on a promise it made during last summer’s Black Hat, Yahoo on Sunday said it’s on track to deliver end-to-end encryption for its email users this year. And to that end, it released the early source code for the Yahoo encryption browser extension to GitHub. Chief information security...

IAB Urges Designers to Make Encryption the Default

The Internet Architecture Board, the body in charge of overseeing the structure of many of the Internet’s key standards, has recommended that encryption be the default traffic option for protocols. The recommendation comes after more than 18 months of revelations about the pervasive surveillance...

Google Changes SafeSearch Option for Administrators

Google is removing a feature that allowed administrator to require their users to employ a search option that removes explicit content from search results. The decision is tied to the fact that the option required the use of an unsecured connection to Google, something that the company said allow...

Announcing Project Zero

Posted by Chris Evans, Researcher Herder Security is a top priority for Google. We’ve invested a lot in making our products secure, including strong SSL encryption by default for Search, Gmail and Drive, as well as encrypting data moving between our data centers. Beyond securing our own products,...

Motives Behind Havex ICS Malware Campaign Remain a Mystery

Since Stuxnet there have been few confirmed reports of malware targeting particular industrial control system software. But now we have a campaign using the Havex remote access Trojan that has three European energy sector vendors in its crosshairs—or does it? The outbreak, reported by security...

Vodafone Reveals Some Governments Have Direct Access to Their Data Centers

Vodafone, the world’s second-largest mobile carrier with more than 400 million customers around the world has issued its first "Law Enforcement Disclosure Report", reveals that the governments in some of the countries it operates, have direct access to its network allowing them to listen to all...

Google Data Shows Encryption Trending In the Right Direction

The past year has seen a tremendous amount of change and turbulence in the security and privacy communities, much of it related to the NSA surveillance revelations. One of the things that has come out of all of the discussions and debates is a greater focus on the importance of encryption,...

Back off, NSA! Gmail now Encrypts every single Email

2014 - The Year for Encryption! Good News for Security & Privacy seekers, Gmail is now more secure than ever before. Google has announced that it has enhanced encryption for its Gmail email service to protect users from government cyber-spying; by removing the option to turn off HTTPS. So from...