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• ​What’s hot in enterprise IT? – Part 2

  In the second part of a series on the hottest areas in enterprise IT, David Gee discusses which big data and cloud technologies and tools you need to be aware of and where you should invest your efforts.
  

• Microsoft helps out partner Lenovo, deletes Superfish 'crapware' and rogue cert

  Microsoft today updated its free Windows Defender and Security Essentials antivirus programs with a signature that sniffs out and deletes the rogue certificate linked to Superfish Visual Discovery, the "crapware" that blew up in Lenovo's face this week.

• DDoS-attack takes Dutch government sites offline for 10 hours

  A sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) blocked Dutch government and privately run commercial sites from the public for more than 10 hours Tuesday.

• Garden-variety DDoS attack knocks North Korea off the Internet

  The simplest explanation for North Korea's suddenly dropping off the Internet was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that overwhelmed the isolated nation's tenuous connection to the rest of the world, experts said Monday.

• Security experts warn of 'POODLE' attack against SSL 3.0

  Google researchers have found a severe flaw in an obsolete but still used encryption software, which could be exploited to steal sensitive data.

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  Automating Cloud Security to Mitigate Risk | SANS Whitepaper

  As cloud computing services evolve, the cloud opens up entirely new ways for potential attacks. In February 2017, Tavis Ormandy of the Google Project Zero team exposed major memory leakage in Cloudflare’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) web caching services. It exposed all sorts of sensitive data, including passwords, authentication tokens and cookies. Although this is just one example of a cloud-oriented service with a major security issue (which, for the record, the company responded to immediately and remediated quickly), it demonstrates that all of us may have more exposure points than we realise.