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	Quiz: Name that hacker After breaking into networks for fun, profit, and to fulfill political agendas, some did prison time. Read More WHITE PAPER: Pure Storage Flash for All Servers and networks get relentlessly faster and cheaper with Moore's Law, and as a result are now thousands of times faster than the mechanical desk storage to which they connect. Download this ebook to discover how your business can improve efficiency, compete better, and deliver compelling user experiences with flash. Learn more now. In this Issue Microsoft moves to block MD5 certificates and improve RDP authentication IBM to acquire endpoint security company Trusteer What are the next Big Space Life Questions? 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Microsoft moves to block MD5 certificates and improve RDP authentication Microsoft released two optional security updates Tuesday to block digital certificates that use the MD5 hashing algorithm and to improve the network-level authentication for the Remote Desktop Protocol. Read More IBM to acquire endpoint security company Trusteer IBM has signed an agreement to acquire security company Trusteer, and plans to set up a cybersecurity software lab in Israel. Read More What are the next Big Space Life Questions? Getting NASA's astrobiology community to agree on a set of specific future space life exploration goals must be like herding cats - there are over 500 members, but the group is currently trying to do just that by defining the most important questions it want to focus on for the 2014 Strategic Plan. 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Read More USENIX: Researchers propose security that adapts to combat malware that morphs Attackers launch malware that automatically alters itself to avoid detection, and they constantly create new domains where their command-and-control servers can hide, but researchers have come up with security software that detects the presence of attack code even if it has morphed and tracks down domains that infected client machines report to. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors HP StoreOnce Is "Better Together" with HP Data Protector 7 This paper looks at the benefits to be realized in the combined scenario of HP StoreOnce appliances being used with HP's own Data Protector 7 backup software while considering the topic of "where" the deduplication occurs. Learn More Hackers targeting servers running Apache Struts applications, researchers say Chinese hackers are using an automated tool to exploit known vulnerabilities in Apache Struts, in order to install backdoors on servers hosting applications developed with the framework. Read More Cisco cuts 4,000 jobs in restructuring effort Cisco today said it would slice 4,000 jobs – or 5% of its workforce in a global restricting effort. Shares of the network equipment giant fell nearly 10% after-trading hours. Read More USENIX: Gamers use DDoS as a service to cheat – a lot Cheating gamers pay as little as $10 per month to launch denial of service attacks against their opponents as a tactical advantage using commercial providers that walk the line between being legitimate businesses that stress-test their customers' networks and purveyors of DDoS as a service, researchers at USENIX Security 2013 say. 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