Technical evidence links destructive malware to attack against Sony Pictures

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	Technical evidence links destructive malware to attack against Sony Pictures The destructive malware program that the FBI alerted some companies about this week was likely used against Sony Pictures Entertainment, according to technical evidence found by researchers in the program’s code.Reports surfaced online Nov. 24 that the computer network of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Sony, was infiltrated by hackers. The company’s employees were reportedly no longer able to use their computers after a message from the attackers, a group called the Guardians of Peace (GOP), was displayed on their screens.On Monday the FBI sent a confidential five-page alert to a number of private companies about a destructive malware program that can overwrite data on a computer’s hard disk drive, including its master boot record that holds information about partitions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Binary Tree SMART: Best Practices for Migrating the Corporate Directory A cornerstone of any IT infrastructure, Microsoft Active Directory plays a central role, determining access to and usage rights for IT resources. Migrating AD to a new environment must be planned and managed carefully using best practices, while maintaining operations and user functionality. Learn More In this Issue Notable deaths of 2014 from the worlds of technology, science & inventions Cloud upstarts: Too cheap to trust? Cloud security grows up Startup promises to secure data centers, clouds workload by workload INSIDER Gamification pitfalls and how companies are avoiding them Public cloud storage can be efficient, but the potential is still limited How to get the most out of your IT talent SDN tools increase WAN efficiency How to get more out of your virtualized and cloud environments How UPS uses analytics to drive down costs (and no, it doesn't call it big data) New products of the week 12.01.2014 WHITE PAPER: Binary Tree SMART: Best Practices for Migrating the Corporate Directory A cornerstone of any IT infrastructure, Microsoft Active Directory plays a central role, determining access to and usage rights for IT resources. Migrating AD to a new environment must be planned and managed carefully using best practices, while maintaining operations and user functionality. Learn More Notable deaths of 2014 from the worlds of technology, science & inventions Remembering2014 has been a particularly tough year for those of us at IDG who mourn the loss of Patrick McGovern, founder and chairman of the company, this past March. Here’s our tribute to Pat and others who contributed much to our lives but are with us no longer. (IDG News Service contributed to this report.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Cloud upstarts: Too cheap to trust? Hosting provider Atlantic.net launched a $0.99 per month cloud server this fall, which is significantly less expensive than the $0.013 per hour starting price for market-leader Amazon Web Services’ on-demand Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual machines.SherWeb, another mid-size hosting provider that is pivoting into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market, launched a Hyper-V/SSD-flash/InfiniBand-fabric/Intel-powered cloud offering that it says beats AWS on a variety of input/output capability benchmark tests. Providers like Digital Ocean, ProfitBricks and Concerto are among others attempting to differentiate their services from AWS, Microsoft and Google on price, performance and usability.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Cloud security grows up Comprehensive cloud security services are taking over the market. Read More WEBCAST: CenturyLink and Intel Enterprise NoSQL and Big Data in the Public Cloud The importance of infrastructure in getting the right performance in the enterprise context and a persuasive business case for making the move from internal hosting to the public cloud. Learn More Startup promises to secure data centers, clouds workload by workload Illumio, a well-funded startup with an impressive list of customers, is wheeling out a data-center/cloud security platform that imposes individual security policies on every workload. Read More INSIDER Gamification pitfalls and how companies are avoiding them Gamification, the use of game mechanics and design techniques to motivate people to solve problems or achieve certain goals, has been in use at organizations for several years. But as the concept matures, organizations are expanding their use of gamification to reap additional benefits.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More Public cloud storage can be efficient, but the potential is still limited Public cloud storage can be a cost efficient alternative to rolling your own, but observers warn that it isn’t a cure all. Price is the lure. Even if you have room in your data center for expansion, in-house storage infrastructure won’t ever be as cost-scalable as a public cloud option, says Forrester analyst Henry Baltazar. And cloud storage will always give you more agility, he says: Once you add storage capacity in your data center, it is likely yours for the life cycle of the equipment.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Top 5 Truths About Big Data Hype and Security Intelligence Big Data Security Analytics (BDSA) is the subject of exuberant predictions. However, a Gartner analyst points out that no available BDSA solutions come close to these forecasts. Nevertheless, the principles of Big Data are the key to advanced security intelligence. This white paper discusses the key tenets of Big Data. Learn more >> How to get the most out of your IT talent As the spotlight on cost reduction has dimmed, IT has picked up plenty of new directives: to deliver business agility, drive innovation, and increase its value to the business, to name a few. Yet at the same time, IT remains responsible for all the tactical and operational activities it has always performed, such as keeping systems running, delivering new capabilities, and securing intellectual property and corporate data.For CIOs and IT leaders, the management challenge is how to help IT employees break the tactical habit and use their strategic skills more effectively. We asked for advice from three tech professionals with different perspectives on IT talent. Their expertise can help IT leaders who want their teams to work smarter and be more engaged. Some of the tactics can be adopted without a lot of investment, while others require outside help or more significant cultural overhauls.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More SDN tools increase WAN efficiency Configuring, maintaining and changing WAN infrastructure can be a nightmare given the distributed nature of the beast and all the remote touch points, but emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) tools promise to make these operations more efficient. Usually touted as a data center tool, SDN can be used to automate and manage WAN operations, says Zeus Kerravala, principal of ZK Research. WAN issues are hard to address because of the dispersed nature of the resources, he says. “There’s no perfect way of making changes to the WAN,” but “SDN brings automation and orchestration from a centralized location and allows you to react faster.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More How to get more out of your virtualized and cloud environments After Dammions Darden arrived as the new senior systems administrator for the city of Garland, Texas, he knew that the 50 to 60 physical hosts for this 234,000-person city outside of Dallas were not running nearly as efficiently as they could be. Some had excess capacity, others were running way too hot. Traditionally if apps are slow and virtual machines need more memory the easy answer is an unfortunate one: Throw more hardware at the problem. But Darden wasn’t satisfied with that. While roaming the expo floor at VMworld two years ago he stumbled across VMTurbo, a company that specializes in analyzing virtual environments.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More How UPS uses analytics to drive down costs (and no, it doesn't call it big data) When you have an organization the size of UPS – with 99,000 vehicles and 424,000 employees – every single little bit of efficiency that can be squeezed out of daily operations translates into a big deal. UPS has been using analytics to do just that for a long time now, and keeps getting better and better at it. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with UPS Senior Director of Process Management Jack Levis for an update on their latest achievements. How does UPS use analytics to optimize its operations? Let me take you back 15 years ago and then work our way back to today, and then I’ll give you a glimpse into the future. Also, to frame the discussion, let’s think of analytics in three forms: descriptive analytics says, “Where am I today?”; predictive analytics says, “With my current trajectory, where will I be headed tomorrow?”; and then at the highest level you have prescriptive analytics, and that’s where you say, “Where should I be?”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More New products of the week 12.01.2014 New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Thunder TPS 3.1 Key features:  Programmability enhancements include improved aFleX TCL-based scripting and the addition of regular expressions (regex). Bolstered mitigation tools for TLS/SSL protection and added advanced rate limiting. Expanded detection and visibility features. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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