(and why your vendor will only sell you tools, not solutions)
Intro
Monitoring infrastructure in a meaningful way is important to any IT operations, yet it is hard to realize. Many vendors adress this problem and promise a silver bullet.
Category: Internet & Cloud. This brand new thing: Internet & Cloud. Even though the technology is around for way more than 30 years, it is a never drying source of news and discoveries. The new channel of communication created a entirely new culture and created new businesses, fueling innovation and creativity.
All those things that clearly relate to something ‘new media’, items and thoughts that would not have been possible without the internet, will go here.
Monitoring infrastructure in a meaningful way is important to any IT operations, yet it is hard to realize. Many vendors adress this problem and promise a silver bullet.
Search CloudSecurity writes DDoS Attacks are becoming easier, cheaper, more frequent and more varied.
Hybrid DDoS prevention emerges to counter variety of DDoS attacks.
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DDoS attacks are getting easier to perform, leading to larger, more frequent, costly attacks against enterprises http://t.co/wxjExVHcIg
— IEEE Cybersecurity (@ieeecybsi) February 2, 2015
Next to the available versions of Ubuntu for the Desktop, Server and the Cloud, Mark Shuttleworth announces a new version of Ubuntu for the Internet of Things. Snappy Ubunutu Core aims to provide a common firmware for “Smart, connected things” on ARM and x86, that introduces a new standard for update-ability and security.
via Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Smart things powered by snappy Ubuntu Core on ARM and x86.
@amcafee: Technology is not our destiny. We shape our destiny.
🆕"Technology is not our destiny.
We shape our destiny."#dld15 @amcafee pic.twitter.com/bs4vCqivnk— Antonio Vieira Santos (@AkwyZ) January 18, 2015
via Twitter.
Uber has been debated emotionally in multiple geographies, with broad media coverage. Lot’s of people made up their opinion, here are Richard M. Stallman’s Reasons not to use Uber.
I found the fact(?) that Uber is capable of tracking one night stands most intriguing.
Eine Reaktion der Netzgemeinde zur digitalen Agenda der deutschen Regierung, via netzpolitik.org: Die Hymne ‘Cyber, Cyber!’
Security is hard. Visualization may help understanding what is going on a lot easier and better. Raffael Marty presents ideas and visualizations to improve security through graphs.
So does DDoS become cheaper to pay for and easier to access. See Fivverr.
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DDoS attacks are getting cheaper and cheaper to order: http://t.co/UdSRlRpA19
Cc: @fiverr— @mikko (@mikko) August 26, 2014