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Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure

Prepare for Exam 70-413 and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of enterprise server design and implementation. Designed for experienced, MCSA-certified professionals …

Week in review: Remote Linksys 0-day root exploit discovered, the Pobelka botnet, and a year of Microsoft patches

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: Looking back at a year of Microsoft patches Last year …

New RAT family makes its traffic look legitimate

RATs – Remote Access Trojans – are often used by cyber attackers to maintain a foothold in the infected computers and make them do things unbeknownst to their …

Security vulnerabilities in ESPN ScoreCenter mobile app

ESPN ScoreCenter, one of the most popular mobile sports apps on the market, has significant security vulnerabilities that could compromise users’ mobile devices, …

Why Facebook Graph Search will help cybercriminals

While Facebook’s newly announced graph search capability is awesome for people who like social networking, it also provides criminals with another source of information …

Fox IT analysts demystify the Pobelka botnet

Analysts from Dutch-based security audit firm Fox-IT have recently released examined in great detail a botnet that has been around for quite some time, and is still …

Cybercriminals exploit Java 0-day fears to serve malware

With all the recent Java zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild and Internet news outlets heavily covering the development of the situation, many users will look …

The end of strong password-only security

More than 90% of user-generated passwords will be vulnerable to hacking in a matter of seconds, according to Deloitte’s Canadian Technology, Media & …

Large-scale DDoS attacks grow bigger and more diversified

In addition to increasing attack sizes, attack volume grew in Q4 2012 and reached the highest number of attacks Prolexic has logged for one quarter. Traditional Layer 3 and …

ObjectRocket launches MongoDB cloud service

ObjectRocket launched its fast and scalable MongoDB database-as-a-service (DBaaS). The platform is specifically architected to provide a fast and predictable MongoDB …

Microsoft AVs not good enough, says AV-Test

AV-Test, the well-known independent organization that tests security software for home and corporate users, has released the results of the latest testing – and …

Bogus “Payroll Declined” emails deliver malware

A malicious email campaign impersonating the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) – a service offered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury that allows …

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