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Cyber Security Protocols That You Should Know

According to the recent research on cyber security, a significant amount of security breaches happens due to human error. In this article, we took a closer look at cyber security protocols that can help you eliminate the human error and keep your organization safe. The recent research on cyber security illustrates that a great number of security breaches take place because of human error.

Major data center provider hit by ransomware attack, claims report

CyrusOne, a major provider of enterprise data center services, is reported to have suffered a ransomware attack. The Dallas-headquartered company, which operates more than 30 data centers across the United States, China, London, and Singapore, is reported by ZDnet to have had some of its systems infected by the REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware.

Staying Safe when Shopping this Holiday Season: Bricks and Clicks Edition

The shopping season is upon us, and like it or not there are lots of individuals who would love to replace your happiness with their sadness. Thus, at this festive time of the year, it is imperative to give some thought and prep time to you and your family’s shopping habits and the security that surrounds those habits. If you’re like most people, you will NOT be using cash for all your holiday purchases.

The "Great Cannon" Has Been Deployed Again

Summary The Great Cannon is a distributed denial of service tool (“DDoS”) that operates by injecting malicious Javascript into pages served from behind the Great Firewall. These scripts, potentially served to millions of users across the internet, hijack the users’ connections to make multiple requests against the targeted site. These requests consume all the resources of the targeted site, making it unavailable.

TripAdvisor: Building a Testing Framework for Integrating Open Policy Agent into Kubernetes

From the Open Policy Agent Summit at KubeCon, Luke Massa from TripAdvisor discusses how he leveraged OPA’s API and unit test framework. The example shown is a system in which you write k8s admission policy alongside some mock changes to the cluster, some of which should be accepted and some of which should not be, and then run code that tells you whether your policy matches your expectation.