Let’s be clear: There is no such thing as an invulnerable application. Some have more critical vulnerabilities than others as we discovered this week with the Heartbleed bug, but any application can be exploited given a dedicated attacker. According to the HP 2013 Cyber Risk Report, though, the application itself is not to blame for most vulnerabilities—you are.
HP compiled data from 2,200 applications scanned by HP Fortify on Demand and reports that 80 percent of the vulnerabilities discovered were not the fault of the application code itself.
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HP report: 80 percent of app vulnerabilities are really your fault
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April 11, 2014 at 7:13 pm With a system that can address both networking and security in NSX, Martin Casado of VMware is borrowing an idea from the world of physics.
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April 11, 2014 at 1:12 pm With so many different devices and highly mobile workforces, WLAN architects face a lot of challenges. Experts offered guidance on WLAN design, BYOD, and 802.11ac at Interop Las Vegas.
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April 10, 2014 at 1:12 pm By now you’ve likely heard about the Heartbleed bug, a critical vulnerability that exposes potentially millions of passwords to attack and undermines the very security of the Internet. Because the flaw exists in OpenSSL—which is an open source implementation of SSL encryption—many will question whether the nature of open source development is in some way at fault. I touched based with security experts to get their thoughts.
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Is open source to blame for the Heartbleed bug?
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April 9, 2014 at 7:13 pm Can the WLAN industry and its highly proprietary systems play nice with a technology that’s poised to be a poster child for interoperability?
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April 9, 2014 at 1:12 pm This Patch Tuesday has much more significance than most. With only four security bulletins from Microsoft, it’s relatively tame as far as Patch Tuesdays go, but today also marks the final patches and updates from Microsoft for Windows XP.
“So this is it, the last hurrah for the once beloved XP, the last kick at the can for patching up the old boat,” says Ross Barrett, senior manager of security engineering for Rapid7. “Sure, by today’s standards it’s a leaky, indefensible, liability, but… hey, do you even remember Windows 98? Or (*gasp*) ME?”
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Patch Tuesday: Last call for Windows XP
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April 8, 2014 at 7:14 pm Move over SAS and SATA. A new standard ramps up SSD performance with a radical new approach to storage I/O handling.
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April 8, 2014 at 1:13 pm The true benefits from network virtualization will come from simplifying the network and applying it to broader use cases, rather than bickering about the finer points of vendors’ SDN products, according to VMware’s Martin Casado.
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April 7, 2014 at 1:14 pm With the end of Windows XP support from Microsoft imminent, perhaps you’ve finally made the (very wise) decision to stop using the venerable operating system. I commend you. However, if you’re planning to simply install a newer operating system on your existing hardware, you should reconsider.
Sure, there’s a good chance that your existing hardware meets the minimum system requirements for either OS: a 1GHz or faster processor, 1GB of RAM (2GB for 64-bit), 16GB of hard drive space (20GB for 64-bit) and a DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher.
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Don’t waste your money trying to upgrade your Windows XP PC
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April 7, 2014 at 7:16 am Software-defined networking will require network engineers to broaden their skills and knowledge, an Interop panel of experts said.
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April 4, 2014 at 1:12 pm 