Month: June 2017

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:59:00 +0000

For many organizations, embracing the potential of the new digital economy involves migrating services, data, and infrastructure to the cloud. The cloud is a powerfully disruptive technology. It allows businesses to be more agile, responsive, and available than ever before by transforming traditional compute architectures and best practices that have been in place for decades. Most organizations today have some sort of a cloud strategy. Nearly all of them are adopting a hybrid cloud infrastructure that combines their private cloud with one or…

Credit to Author: Margarette Joven| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:05:00 +0000

Yesterday, a new ransomware wreaked havoc across the world. This new malware variant, which combines the functionality of ransomware with the behaviors of a worm, is being called Petya, Petrwrap, and even NotPetya, since researchers are still investigating as to whether its ability to modify the Master Boot Record of a targeted machine is based on the Petya family of malware. Fortinet has designated this new hybrid form of malware as a ransomworm, and this outbreak was reported to use the same worm mechanism to spread across the Internet as WannaCry,…