Netflix could pwn 2020s IT security – they need only reach out and take The container is doomed, killed by serverless. Containers are killing Virtual Machines (VM). Nobody uses bare metal servers. Oh, and tape is dead. These, and other clichés, are available for a limited time, printed on a coffee mug of your choice […]
Public cloud and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions are key to digital business success nowadays. On an enterprise level, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform are the industry-leading solutions. In the first part of this post, we focused on AWS. Now, we’re moving on to Azure and Google. We’ll explain the differences between the solutions and look at which solution […]
If you’re looking for enterprise-level public cloud and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are likely to be among the first names to spring to mind.. If you’re looking for enterprise-level public cloud and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are likely to be among the first names to spring to […]
Memcrashed – Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211 Over last couple of days we’ve seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector – using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211. The general idea behind all amplification attacks is the same. An IP-spoofing capable attacker sends forged requests to a vulnerable […]
What if Big Brother had access to big data technology? Big data handled without care might easily turn us all unknowingly into Big Brothers or their collaborators. Although some might see it differently, the society foreseen and described by George Orwell in the dystopian novel 1984 has not become reality. But what if Big Brother […]
The rise of big data opens up new possibilities. By investing in the future and exploring use cases together with customers in many industries, Basefarm creates market leaders. The rise of big data opens up new possibilities. By investing in the future and exploring use cases together with customers in many industries, Basefarm creates market […]
Apple fixes that “1 character to crash your Mac and iPhone” bug Apple has pushed out an emergency update for all its operating systems and devices, including TVs, watches, tablets, phones and Macs. The fix patches a widely-publicised vulnerability known officially as CVE-2018-4124, and unofficially as “one character to crash your iPhone”, or “the Telugu […]
Where does success come from? Nowadays, data thinking is a key component. It’s the culture that is responsible for SpaceX’s pioneering Falcon Heavy rocket launch as well as the secret behind hotels and bars remembering your favorite drink. If there is anything that drives the most successful businesses right now, it is the clever use […]
Think data lakes are just a new incarnation of data warehouses? Our resident expert Ingo Steins rates the two. Data lakes and data warehouses only have one thing in common, and that is the fact that they are both designed to store data. Apart from that, the systems have fundamentally different applications and offer different […]
NCCGroup rebuilt NotPetya, replacing its destructive payload with telemetry and safeguards to see what the impact could have been. They found the following: The customer ran it on one machine in their engineering network with no privileges. It found three machines unpatched. It exploited those three machines to obtain kernel level access. It infected those […]
