John Casaretto

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Latest from John Casaretto

Codero’s CEO Says It’s Time to Dump Closet Tech

Codero CEO Emil Sayegh says enough with the tech of the 90’s, step out of that closet. For the typical business, it’s a provocative statement to think about. Especially when Sayegh lays a number of the different things that can go wrong, …

Prism, Verizon and NSA Espionage – Let’s Take a Breath Before Everyone Loses Their Minds

NEWS By JOHN CASARETTO13 YEARS AGO

I keep thinking how in 2008’s The Dark Knight, during the frantic city-wide search for the Joker, Lucius Fox says to Bruce Wayne: “You took my sonar concept and applied it to every phone in the city. With half the city feeding …

Zeus Lives! Russian Cybercrime Gangs Draining Bank Accounts from Facebook

NEWS By JOHN CASARETTO13 YEARS AGO

A Russian cybercriminal gang is operating on Facebook and it is using malware to drain the bank accounts of unsuspecting users. Even worse, the evidence points to Zeus, a virus that has been around for about six years now. Constant evidence shows …

IBM and SoftLayer Mashup – The Enterprise, Mid-Size and SMB Cloud

NEWS By JOHN CASARETTO13 YEARS AGO

The news of IBM buying SoftLayer in a recently announced deal was not a big surprise as it was rumored for some time, but it does mean some big new things for IBM. IBM was among the names that included EMC that were …

Anonymous Took Down Monsanto This Week – Some Thoughts on Current-Day Cyberthreats

NEWS By JOHN CASARETTO13 YEARS AGO

Anonymous has been involved in a campaign called #OpMonsanto which was launched against the global biotech company. On Wednesday, Anonymous laid claim to have disabled Monsanto’s website. The website appeared to have been affected for some time late in the evening. Protests …

iOS Devices Infected by Malware with Power Chargers – Black Hat 2013 Preview

NEWS By JOHN CASARETTO13 YEARS AGO

The yearly BlackHat event that caters to those in the infosec community is still some weeks away, but the anticipation surrounding some of the topics is already starting. Every year we’re treated to a variety of research that is announced at the …

China-US Summit Means Determining the Rules of Cyber-Warfare Engagement

NEWS By JOHN CASARETTO13 YEARS AGO

On today’s NewsDesk segment we discussed this situation with Chinese cyber-espionage and their sustained campaign again U.S. defense contractors, government agencies, and private industry. It’s a perilous state of affairs to say the least. I also made the point that we are …

Hollywood: Help Us Google, by Blocking Mega – Dotcom Says: I Don’t Think So

NEWS By JOHN CASARETTO13 YEARS AGO

Kim Dotcom’s new Mega file service is coming under some fire as two major Hollywood Studios have gone to none other than Google to ask that the search engine giant block the Mega site from its search results. Both NBC Universal and …

LulzSec Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stratfor Hacks

NEWS By JOHN CASARETTO13 YEARS AGO

Jeremy Hammond aka “Anarchaos” pled guilty in a federal case today to the December 2011 hacking of Strategic Forecasting, Inc, known to most as Stratfor. The private intelligence firm was compromised under Anonymous operations that just preceded the early LulzSec days. In the massive …

Troll-Hackers? Is This Nuclear Agency Under Cyber Threat by Familiar Iranian Hacker Group?

NEWS By JOHN CASARETTO13 YEARS AGO

The United States National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is the nuclear energy branch of the Department of Energy (DOE). Their critical operations oversee a number of sensitive nuclear-related missions, including weaponry, nonproliferation, nuclear security, navy operations, counterterrorism and defense. A recent announcement …

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Latest from John Casaretto

Codero’s CEO Says It’s Time to Dump Closet Tech

Prism, Verizon and NSA Espionage – Let’s Take a Breath Before Everyone Loses Their Minds

Zeus Lives! Russian Cybercrime Gangs Draining Bank Accounts from Facebook

IBM and SoftLayer Mashup – The Enterprise, Mid-Size and SMB Cloud

Anonymous Took Down Monsanto This Week – Some Thoughts on Current-Day Cyberthreats

iOS Devices Infected by Malware with Power Chargers – Black Hat 2013 Preview

China-US Summit Means Determining the Rules of Cyber-Warfare Engagement

Hollywood: Help Us Google, by Blocking Mega – Dotcom Says: I Don’t Think So

LulzSec Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stratfor Hacks

Troll-Hackers? Is This Nuclear Agency Under Cyber Threat by Familiar Iranian Hacker Group?

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