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MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Krebs on Security

Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.

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NEW TECH: Alcide introduces a “microservices firewall” as a dynamic ‘IaaS’ market takes shape

The Last Watchdog

As a tech reporter at USA TODAY, I wrote stories about how Google fractured Microsoft’s Office monopoly , and then how Google clawed ahead of Apple to dominate the global smartphone market. Gartner estimates that the so-called Infrastructure-as-a-service-Market (IaaS) global market will jump from to $83.5 billion in 2018.

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Akamai's new cloud firewall capabilities aim to protect network edge

CSO Magazine

Content delivery network (CDN) and cloud security services provider Akamai Technologies has added a network cloud firewall capability to its cloud-based DDoS platform, Akamai Prolexic. To read this article in full, please click here

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Is the Market for Hardware Security Appliances Doomed?

Security Boulevard

When enterprise firewalls were introduced in the mid-1990s, they served a critical function. By enforcing network connection policies, they made it possible for organizations to connect their still-evolving corporate networks to the internet. The post Is the Market for Hardware Security Appliances Doomed?

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Next-Generation Firewalls: A comprehensive guide for network security modernization

CyberSecurity Insiders

The terms computer security, information security and cybersecurity were practically non-existent in the 1980s, but believe it or not, firewalls have existed in some form since that time. Over the years, the traditional firewall has transformed to meet the demands of the modern workplace and adapt to an evolving threat landscape.

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What Is a Web Application Firewall — and Will It Protect My Small Business?

SiteLock

A web application firewall — also known as a WAF — is basically a website’s gatekeeper. You may think that your small business’s website doesn’t receive enough traffic to necessitate a gatekeeper, but consider this: More than 60% of all internet traffic is made up of bots. What Do Web Application Firewalls Protect Against?

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RSAC Fireside Chat: How a well-placed ‘NGWAF’ can staunch the flow of web, mobile app attacks

The Last Watchdog

At RSA Conference 2023 , I had the chance to meet with Paul Nicholson , senior director of product marketing and analyst relations at A10 Networks. At RSAC 2023, A10 announced the addition of a next-generation web application firewall ( NGWAF ,) powered by Fastly, to its core Thunder ADC service. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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