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Let US spies keep their internet. The EU will build its own
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-02-17 22:46
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has lent her support to the idea of building out new European data networks to help keep Europeans' email and other data out of the hands of US spies.
In the latest edition of her weekly podcast on Saturday, Merkel said she planned to raise the issue among other topics in a meeting with French President François Hollande this week.
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Massive DDoS Attack Leveraged Network Timing Protocol
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-02-12 18:13
One of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) ever seen hit the Internet Feb. 11, cloud security vendor CloudFlare reported.
The target was a CloudFlare customer, and the attack appears to have been just shy of 400G bps, Matthew Prince, the company's CEO, told eWEEK. "We're still gathering data from all our upstream providers to get the exact scale."
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Chromebox for meetings, a $999 video conferencing system from Google
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2014-02-07 11:08
Google is expanding its line of Chrome hardware for business users with "Chromebox for meetings," a video conferencing system that costs $999 and up.
While the system is powered by the free Google Hangouts, $999 isn't expensive when it comes to enterprise-class video conferencing hardware. Google's offering includes a Chromebox, an HD camera, a microphone and speaker, and a remote control. A display is not included.
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DDoS attacks rise as companies fail to address DNS security
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-01-30 06:01
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have scaled up in the past year, according to Arbor Networks' latest Infrastructure Security Report (PDF), and many attackers are learning from each other to meet their objectives.
Those surveyed in the study, around 220 operational security professionals, reported that DDoS attacks are the number one threat against their infrastructure.
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Brace yourself for flood of new domain names
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-01-29 18:18
Brace yourself. The Internet is about to get a lot busier and more cluttered.
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