Monday, December 08, 2014

FireEye as a Service: The indispensable 24x7 protection

Spying has shifted emphasis from on the ground to online. Security breach in one form or another has become all too common. The adversaries are better equipped (reminds bme of smugglers having faster boats than law enforcement), nimble and persistent, not only in pursuing their activities to get in, but also leave behind codes that live and thrive to cause further damage. Also as organizations grow adding on many more constituent parts, the overall vulnerability gets to the level of the weakest link making the organizations much more vulnerable.

In this some what dismal situation, the protection that you get should not only alert you to the threat and indicate where it is originating from, it should also provide means to mitigate at the earliest. This is a 365, 24x7 task that needs multifaceted and coordinated protection.

FireEye as a service seems to offer just that. It will help you in not getting victimized by attacks. The FireEye's patented virtual machine based technology detects and prevents most major intrusion attempts. The client's environment is monitored round the clock using techniques in the knowledge base and should an intrusion occur clients will be sent complete relevant details of the attack needed for effective response. Depending on the severity, FireEye offers quarantine solutions and FireEye's incident responders help to resolve the threat issue and assess the impact.

More at: https://www.fireeye.com/products/fireeye-mssp-services.html

The following image from their data sheet provides their 24x7 service:

There was this interesting image which looked like an animation on the same site that I would like to share. I am told that it is not  'fun' animation but small slice of real data. If this is so it looks like countries attacking each other is quite common and no country is on moral high ground.




 

Friday, December 05, 2014

Toyota's hydrogen powered car is no 'fool's' technology

Not long ago some one from the all electrical vehicle technology quipped playing on the word 'fuel cell' that Toyota is pursuing a foolish path in its development of hydrogen powered car.

Older posts here:

http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/07/battery-powered-car-is-history.html
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/07/toyota-fchv-concept-vehicle.html

Now it even has a name. Well here is the car and Toyota is trippling its investment.


More details here:
http://hodentekplus.blogspot.com/2014/12/toyotas-hydrogen-powered-car-coming-to.html

 

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Domain Name Service (DNS) and DNS Changer malware

Domain name service converts user friendly name such as www.foo.com into an IP address so that your computer can connect to that IP Address. The malware hijacks this to their own computers. It appears hijacking DNS using DNS Changer malware is a very common way for the rogues to get to your computers. If you believe that your computer has been infected in any way, you could checck your DNS using this FBI site:
https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using-rogue-DNS

There are also many other Check-up sites where you can get this service. All you need to do is enter the IP Address and the checker provides a response as shown:

Read this FBI's PDF file to learn about the DNSChanger malware.
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911/DNS-changer-malware.pdf

Attend the TechNet Asia Pacific conference to learn about Malware Protection, cyber security, firewall etc.
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/11/2014-technet-asia-pacific-assured.html

Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Microsoft confirms purchase of Acompl, Email Client app for iPhone and Android

This fits into the larger plan of Microsoft to cover not only Windows Phone which is still trying to get up and run, but to stay in tune with the fast runners, Google and Apple. It will be Outlook for desktop but Acompl for the mobile and supports Microsoft's Exchange. Exchange is Ok but Microsoft will definitely integrate this somehow with Office 365.

This is going to make Outlook a lot richer and even without Acompl, Outlook is a damn good email client. Well $200 million may be a little pricey but for what it does the price is OK.

Read more here:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/Microsoft-acquires-iPhone-email-app-Acompli/ar-BBgcyP0?ocid=ansVerge11

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/1/7298679/microsoft-acquires-acompli

How long will it take to recover $200 mil?

Monday, December 01, 2014

Microsoft Ignite 2015 is announced




It is just now announced for 2015 between 4 th and 8th of May in Chicago,IL. Microsoft Ignite is about addressing the fast changing technology; it is about innovation in this rapidly changing and extremely mobile technology arena that is going to make seismic changes in our lives. Microsoft Ignite is the meeting place where the sharpest of the cutting edge in innovation be it Big Data; be it IoT or something quite out of the blue is discussed.

It is also about learning, certification, compliance, deployment, security and all the different things needed to make the push needed to take your skills to the next level.

There are veteran Microsoft speakers ready to make your experience productive and enjoyable.
Read more about Microsoft Ignite here (and register for the event) and revisit as the content of this event develops:
http://ignite.microsoft.com/#fbid=xLhDyuK-AHn
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