DevOps vs SRE: Differences & Similarities

DevOps vs SRE: Differences & Similarities

DevOps vs. SRE: Differences and Similarities DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) both aim to streamline development and operations. Because of their similar goals, some IT professionals consider SRE to be an extension of DevOps. However, they are distinct approaches between the two that need to be evaluated in order to define their working roles and responsibilities. This article compares DevOps and SRE so teams can choose which approach fits their team’s goals and culture,…

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Hacking the Crypto-monetized Web

Hacking the Crypto-monetized Web

Hacking the Crypto-monetized Web Cyber Threats What danger lies around the corner? By: Jon Clay June 30, 2022 Read time:  ( words) The web is several decades old. But it largely still relies on the same method of monetization as it always has: advertising. However, things are changing thanks to the power of cryptocurrency and blockchain. It’s what Trend Micro has coined the “crypto-monetized web” (CMW). But where there’s money to be made and users…

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Black Basta Ransomware Operators Expand Their Attack Arsenal With QakBot Trojan and PrintNightmare Exploit

Black Basta Ransomware Operators Expand Their Attack Arsenal With QakBot Trojan and PrintNightmare Exploit

Black Basta Ransomware Operators Expand Their Attack Arsenal With QakBot Trojan and PrintNightmare Exploit We look into a recent attack orchestrated by the Black Basta ransomware ransomware group that used the banking trojan QakBot as a means of entry and movement and took advantage of the PrintNightmare vulnerability to perform privileged file operations. By: Kenneth Adrian Apostol, Paolo Ronniel Labrador, Mirah Manlapig, James Panlilio, Emmanuel Panopio, John Kenneth Reyes, Melvin Singwa June 30, 2022 Read…

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Standard Operating Procedure Becomes Lifelong Learning Asset

Standard Operating Procedure Becomes Lifelong Learning Asset

A few weeks ago, something remarkable happened. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) had its first in-person meeting in over two years. Typically, the IETF meets in person three times per year to “make the internet better” through interoperable standards. These IETF meetings connect representatives from vendors, network operators, academia, and other interested network nerds. While quite a bit happens throughout the year on email lists, the IETF’s in-person meetings are a chance to put…

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NaaS: Is it right for you, and how do you pick a vendor?

NaaS: Is it right for you, and how do you pick a vendor?

Enterprises have become comfortable switching from the purchase-and-refresh cycle for servers, storage and applications to a cloud-based as-a-service approach. So, why not take the same tack when it comes to the network? That’s the concept behind Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), which promises predictable costs, increased agility, better performance, cloud-style scalability, timely integration of new technologies, service-provider-level security, and a high degree of automation. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] To…

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Defining data privacy, residency and sovereignty in the cloud

Defining data privacy, residency and sovereignty in the cloud

Not so fast. What may appear to be a relatively straightforward concept has instead become an extremely complicated situation due to the numerous regulations defined, countless re-purposed terms used, and the variety of technology capabilities offered. This reality has an impact downstream in the form of significant considerations and ramifications for public and private organizations alike. To begin to simplify this complexity, let’s start with the definition of the parts that make up the whole…

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Cisco Live! 2022 Wrap Up

Cisco Live! 2022 Wrap Up

That’s a Wrap! Cisco Live! 2022 wrapped up on 16 June 2022 in Las Vegas. What an amazing event overall and, specifically, for the Cisco Developer Relations Organization (DevRel). We hosted attendees in the DevNet Zone which covered over 24,000 square feet of space. The DevRel team put together an amazing set of learning activities over the course of the four-day event. We had 200+ sessions covering topics such as Automation, API Design, Cisco Edge…

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Nvidia and Siemens to accelerate digital twins’ development

Nvidia and Siemens to accelerate digital twins’ development

Nvidia and Siemens are partnering to make it easier for manufacturing enterprises to build photorealistic digital twins of their products and production processes, and view and manipulate those twins in real-time. “Everything we build in the real world is becoming so complex: We can’t imagine building these things without first simulating them inside the digital, virtual world,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia. Nvidia made its name designing chips…

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Cybersecurity Researchers Launch New Malware Hunting Tool YARAify

Cybersecurity Researchers Launch New Malware Hunting Tool YARAify

A group of security researchers from Abuse.ch and ThreatFox launched a new hub for scanning and hunting files. Dubbed YARAify, the defensive tool is designed to scan suspicious files against a large repository of YARA rules. “YARA is an open source tool for pattern matching,” Abuse.ch founder Roman Hüssy said in an interview with The Daily Swig. “It allows anyone […] to write their own rules to detect [issues] such as malicious or suspicious files.” YARAify can scan files using public…

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New UnRAR Vulnerability Could Lead to Zimbra Webmail Hack

New UnRAR Vulnerability Could Lead to Zimbra Webmail Hack

A new flaw has been discovered in RARlab’s UnRAR utility that could be exploited to steal emails from individual Zimbra mail user accounts. The path traversal vulnerability, found in the Unix versions of UnRAR, has been assigned CVE-2022-30333 and a base score of 7.5 in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). For context, Zimbra is an enterprise email solution used by over 200,000 businesses, government and financial institutions. Security researchers from Sonar were reportedly the first to…

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