Month: September 2016

Microsoft pushes its three pillars at Ignite—security, intelligence, and cloud – Ars Technica http://ift.tt/2dzbMkf Microsoft reader comments 45 ATLANTA—At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for cloud and enterprise, explained that the company wants IT professionals to feel empowered and digitally transform their organizations. Accordingly, Microsoft is focusing on three areas…

Microsoft equips Edge with hardware-based container http://ift.tt/2dgfOtE Microsoft has announced a new capability that will make its Edge browser the most secure web browsing option for enterprises: Windows Defender Application Guard. Windows Defender Application Guard is a lightweight virtual machine that prevents malicious activity coming from the web from reaching the operating system, apps, data,…

152k cameras in 990Gbps record-breaking dual DDoS http://ift.tt/2d2Odlg The world’s largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has been clocked from the same network of 152,463 compromised low-powered cameras and internet-of-things devices which punted a media outlet off the internet. Last days, we got lot of huge DDoS. Here, the list of “bigger that 100Gbps”…

As you read this, teen social site is leaking millions of plaintext passwords http://ift.tt/2cy0l7r A social hangout website for teenage girls has sprung a leak that’s exposing plaintext passwords protecting as many as 5.5 million user accounts. As this post went live, all attempts to get the leak plugged had failed. Operators of i-Dressup didn’t…