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New York City hit with DDoS attacks, government email service knocked out

For the whole of last week, and up until this Monday, unknown hackers had knocked of New York City government's email system. The attack was pretty ferocious, according to a City Hall source, who said that the "universal£ denial of service attack had now been contained, but there was still "ongoing malicious activity". Almost all government agencies, including the FBI and NYPD, were unable to send or receive email messages. Some agencies set up temporary Gmail accounts so they could continue to operate.

: T.K. KEANINI, CTO, LANCOPE; Talking Point; Posted On Thursday, 26 February 2015 13:46

Why the network is only as good as the testing

In this article, Chris Atkin, Managing Director of Total Comms Training and Total Electrical Training discusses the importance of ensuring data centres run smoothly to guarantee reliable network performance. Atkin suggests that the network is only as good as the testing therefore inspection and testing should be every data centre technician's most important task.

: Chris Atkin, managing director, Total Comms Training & Total Electrical Training; Viewpoints; Posted On Thursday, 26 February 2015 12:51

PixAlert launches integrated OCR capability to streamline and accelerate sensitive data discovery

PixAlert has introduced integrated, optical character recognition (OCR) capability to their portfolio of enterprise content audit solutions. This latest innovation allows organizations to easily detect and extract text from often difficult to find image files including scanned documents (PDFs), sensitive data captured in screen shots and image formats (BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF).

: Ciaran Healy; International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence; Posted On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:22

AlienVault ranks third in cybersecurity 500 list of companies to watch in 2015

London, UK: In an exciting start to 2015, AlienVault has been named a top three contender in the Cybersecurity 500, a directory of the 500 hottest and most innovative cybersecurity companies to watch in 2015. In addition, AlienVault was named a finalist in the "Security Solution of the Year" category for its Unified Security Management (USM) platform in the European IT & Software Excellence Awards 2015.