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Red Hat today announced that it has joined Facebook’s Open Compute Project, a non-profit foundation with a simple, yet challenging goal – design the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.With this goal in mind, Red Hat is now part of the ecosystem of engineers, architects and developers that are looking to redefine the next-generation datacenter. As the largest provider of open source software and services, this is a huge addition of support to the project.

What Do 4G/LTE Networks' Entirely New Infrastructure Mean for Security?By now, we’ve all seen the uncharacteristically techie ads for 4G/LTE phones and services. Even for those of us who don’t know that LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, the 4G postscript reassures us that we are going to get more, better, and faster. After all, the “Gs” have been part of our vernacular and consciousness for a while.

Microsoft has dismissed a lawsuit against a company it contended a month ago was at the heart of the now-defunct Kelihos botnet.In September, Microsoft named Dominique Piatti and his company dotFree Group SRO as controllers of the botnet. The move marked the first time Microsoft had named a defendant in one of its botnet-related civil suits.

Last week, Duqu, the next-step toward the next-generation Stuxnet, was revealed by researchers, although its pedigree and the intended target remains the subject of much debate.

What Can we Learn From Some of the Significant Hacks in 2011?As we round the corner to the last quarter of 2011 and move into the busy holiday season (for hackers too), it’s a good time to look back at some of the hacks that made headlines this year. And 2011 was a monumental year for hackers. Businesses as well as consumers felt the brunt of cybercrime by the millions, some of them a few times over. Here’s a look...

Tru.ly, a provider of Internet-based age verification services, today released an age verification API that lets developers integrate age verification into apps and authenticate the age of an online user based on government issued data.

IP Blacklisting is not as Black or White as it sounds. IP Intelligence Should to be Used to Help flag Malicious Attack Sources.

The company behind the iconic Snort, Sourcefire, has increased its Intrusion Detection and Prevention line to include Red Hat Enterprise’s virtualization offerings. With this addition, Sourcefire’s virtual offerings now cover the markets most used platforms including VMWare and Xen.

SecurityWeek will host a live webcast with Symantec this week on the topic of Duqu, newly discovered malware considered to be the precursor to the next Stuxnet.Note: This Webcast Was Recorded and Is Now Available on Demand Here.

Smart or Not, the Grid is an Important Piece of our Critical Infrastructure that Must be Carefully and Thoroughly Secured.

According to local Japanese media, defense information and nuclear power plant design and safety plans were taken during the attack on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which was discovered in August, and disclosed in September.Japan’s largest defense contractor said in August that it “would continue to strengthen” existing security measures, but believed that it had contained the cyber attack.

Spammers have turned to creating their own URL shortening services to better conceal links in their messages.Researchers at Symantec recently uncovered a spam gang with at least 80 URL shortening sites, all of which used a similar naming pattern as well as the .info top-level domain. According to the company, the spammers are using free, open source URL shortening scripts to operate these sites. After creating shortened URLs with their own service, the spammers then blast out their messages with...

Financially, RIM continues to be a healthy company. But if doesn't “think different” about its network strategy, its customers may think different about their choice of handset vendor.

SSL Renegotiation Vulnerability Exploited via New Attack Tool to Launch DoS AttacksA German hacker group has released a new proof-of-concept tool for denial of service (DoS) attacks that exploits a weakness in SSL.

Taiwan has taken the top spot as the world’s dominant source of attack traffic, according to a new report from Akamai Technologies. In its State of the Internet report for the second quarter of the year, the company found 10 percent of global attack traffic originated from Taiwan, up from 9.1 percent in Q1. Myanmar, the former number one, slipped by second place with 9.1 percent, while the United States rounded out the top three with 8.3.