Ten Cybersecurity Predictions for 2017

by Dr. Chase Cunningham, ECSA, LPT  Director of Cyber Operations, A10 Networks  The cyber landscape changes dramatically year after year. If you blink, you may miss something; whether that’s a noteworthy hack, a new attack vector or new solutions to protect your business. Sound cyber security means trying to stay one step ahead of threat actors. Before the end of 2016 comes around, I wanted to grab my crystal ball and take my best guess...

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Yahoo! -- One Billion Accounts Compromised

Yahoo! confirmed that hackers stole data and compromised more than one billion user accounts in August 2013. The exploit was first disclosed by Yahoo! in November and is most likely different from incident disclosed on September 22, 2016. Separately, Yahoo previously disclosed that its outside forensic experts were investigating the creation of forged cookies that could allow an intruder to access users' accounts without a password. Based on the...

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FBI Arrests USC Student in DDoS Sweep

The FBI announced the arrest of Sean Sharma, a graduate student at the University of Southern California, for his suspected role in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a San Francisco chat service company.  The arrest came as part of an operation aimed at users of “DDoS for hire” services. The sweep, which was coordinated from The Hague in the Netherlands by Europol’s European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), yielded nearly three...

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Alibaba Cloud for Japan Ready for Launch

Alibaba Cloud for Japan is ready for commercial launch on December 15, 2016. The service is provided by SB Cloud Corporation, which is a joint venture between SoftBank Corp. and Alibaba Group Holding Limited. Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has the largest share of the Chinese market with its services. Its services provide the critical infrastructure that supports the Alibaba Group’s e-commerce sites, which recently processed...

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AWS London Opens for Business

Amazon Web Services officially launched its AWS London Region, offering two availability zones (data centers).  The new London Region is currently available for multiple services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). The London Region joins Ireland and Frankfurt as AWS’ third European location. This brings the number of AWS Regions...

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AT&T Connects NASA's Deep Space Network Radio Antennas

AT&T will provide a global VPN linking the giant radio antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network. AT&T said its highly secure and reliable VPN lets NASA protect and transmit data 3x faster than before. It also lets NASA increase of decrease bandwidth on demand. NASA’s Deep Space Network supports communications for interplanetary spacecraft missions. It also provides radar and radio astronomy observations that improve our understanding of...

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Arista Wins in Copyright Case Versus Cisco

A U.S. jury in the Northern District of California has found that Arista is not liable for copyright infringement related to Arista’s use of a small number of commands similar to those found in Cisco’s Command Line Interface (CLI), and does not owe damages to Cisco. “We would like to thank the jurors and Judge Freeman for their tireless efforts. Today’s verdict represents an important victory not only for Arista but for the entire industry,” said...

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Blacksky Integrates Satellite Imagery wtih Data Streams

Spaceflight Industries introduced a cloud-based platform that integrates satellite imagery, social media and other data feeds – to reveal timely and relevant insights around specific topics or locations. The new BlackSky global intelligence platform offers two major capabilities: Imagery: Customers can discover, purchase and download imagery via the BlackSky platform, which currently provides access to more than 10 high-resolution imaging spacecraft...

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