The crippling Olympic Destroyer attack that hit several systems supporting the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics last month may have forever changed the game of attack attribution: the sophisticated attackers created a convincing forgery of malware associated with the North Korean nation-state Lazarus Group, fooling several experts who initially pinned the blame for the attacks on the DPRK. —Kelly Jackson Higgins @Dark Reading
SONiC is the default switch OS powering Azure and many other parts of the Microsoft Cloud. Since last year’s Summit, we have grown its footprint substantially and are now also powering services such as our AI platform, making sure researches have the very best experience when working on solving some of the world’s most pressing problems. —Yousef Khalidi @Azure
For decades, academics and technologists have sparred with the government over access to crypographic technology. In the 1970s, when crypto started to become an academic discipline, the NSA was worried, fearing that they’d lose the ability to read other countries’ traffic. And they acted. For example, they exerted pressure to weaken DES. —Steve Bellovin @CircleID
Cybersecurity attacks have become a weekly occurrence in many news columns. One recent example was that of one of our customers, QIWI payment system, successfully mitigating a 480 Gbps memcached amplified UDP DDoS attack. —Artyom Gavrichenkov @APNIC
With less than 2 months before the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force on the 25th May, tens of thousands of businesses are woefully underprepared, and many businesses outside of the EU do not realize that GDPR also applies to them. —Patti MacDonald @Web Designer Depot
Whereas zero-days are a class of vulnerability that is unknown to a software developer or hardware manufacturer, an N-day is a flaw that is already publicly known but may or may not have a security patch available. There are countless known vulnerabilities in existence today, and many large commercial and governmental entities will find they have significant exposure within their broad network footprints. —Ang Cui @Dark Reading
If you are reading this, then you probably know by now how microservices can serve as an elegant way to break the shackles of monolithic architectures when building or deploying applications. But aside from pioneers such as Netflix, which began exploring this territory a few years ago, chances are microservices are something relatively new for your organization. Protection against cyber attacks represents an even bigger unknown for many. —B. Cameron Gain @The New Stack
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