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The article reports that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is hosting seven different open-source projects as part of a wider roster of initiatives that aim to facilitate cloud native applications. Topics covered include the OpenTracking project joining the CNCF in October 2016 to provide a cloud native approach to application tracing that can help improve performance and availability and the Linkerd service mesh project being added in January 2017.

The article reports on the Security Roundup released by security vendor Trend Micro that offered insight into a record year for vulnerabilities. Topics discussed include the exceptional rise of ransomware in 2016, the trend of business email compromise and the U.S. as the single most impacted country of BEC attacks.

The article offers brief information on several products which includes the Falcon platform from CrowdStrike, the Malware Grader service from SecurityScorecard and the SafeNet Luna HSM 7 (Hardware Security Module) from Gemalto.

The article discusses highlights of the 2017 Rivest, Shamir and Adleman (RSA) Conference. The keynote speech was by Microsoft president Brad Smith who proposed about a "Digital Geneva Convention" while former chief of the National Security Administration (NSA) Gen. Keith Alexander discussed the benefits of moving to the cloud. Other speakers include Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, Google anti-fraud research team leader Elie Bursztein and Google Android security director Adrian Ludwig.

The article evaluates the LibreOffice 5.1 open-source office suite from the Document Foundation; and outlines several features of the software.

The article discusses the "2017 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report" by PhishLabs which reveals that a growing number of phishing attacks are targeting cloud storage providers. The study found that phishing volume in 2016 spiked in the middle of the year while there were 300 virtual web-server compromises in 2016. The study also found that most commonly used top-level domain for phishing attacks observed by PhishLabs in 2016 was dot com, at 51 percent.

The article focuses on the 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report by networking hardware company Cisco which reveals significant trends in cyber security. It mentions the presence of common malware that focus on web based and browser vulnerabilities. It also mentions the increased use of Adware software for downloads or displays advertising through redirections for generating revenue for its creators.

The article focuses on a finding by Risk Based Security Inc.'s VulnDB vulnerability tracking system regarding 15,000 reported vulnerabilities in 2016. It is noted that a Common Vulnerabilities Scoring System (CVSS) score of between 9.0 and 10.0 has been assigned to 21.3% of vulnerabilities in VulnDB. It is noted that 80.1% of vulnerabilities were verified by a vendor as reported by VulnDB.

The article offers information on the Tails 2.10 Linux software from Microsoft Corp.

The article offes information on Arctic Wolf Networks survey that offers insights into how mid-market business enterprises think of security and what they actually do to enforce information technology security. The most commonly used security controls in the surveyed mid-market organization is a firewall and Detection/Prevention System.

The article looks at ways for enhancing data security of computer systems and mobile devices in 2017. Topics discussed include changing passwords regularly to mitigate risks of security breaches on online accounts in various websites, applying multifactor authentication tools to boost protection of online accounts, and keeping web browsers, operating system and applications updated.

The article focuses on the prediction of the top cyber-trends in 2017. It states that the hackers will be taking the path of least resistance in the upcoming year, and more cyber-aatacks and data breaches will take place within the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It also states that the container isolation will be adopted more for its security benefits.

The article describes how an IBM Security study has revealed that businesses affected by ransomware are willing to pay to get data back. Ransomware is typically delivered to victims as an email attachment. Over the course of 2016, IBM X-Force observed a massive increase in the volume of spam emails that contained ransomware attachments, growing to nearly 40 percent in 2016 from 0.6 percent in 2015.

The article reports that security alerts for enterprises have reached an overwhelming number due to the increase in security incidents, according to the McAfee Labs Threats Report released by computer security company Intel Security for December 2016. Topics covered include the continued increase of ransomware, the tendency for many security managers to feel overwhelmed by security alerts, and the majority of respondents using firewall logs as the top data source for detecting threats.

The article offers brief information about the WordPress 4.7 Content Management System from WordPress.

The article discusses the decline in confidence in cyber-security, with IT professionals giving cyber-security confidence a C-grade for 2017. A core element of the Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card is the Risk Assessment Index, which measures an organization's ability to assess cyber-security risks across 11 IT infrastructure components. Respondents were asked about their optimism for the future of security and their organization's ability to defend itself against cyber-attacks.

The article reports that new features and services are announced by Amazon Web Services Inc. as it asks enterprises to move ever more data center workloads to the AWS cloud. The Amazon Aurora service provided compatibility with the open-source MySQL database. The Alexa consumer AI service is being extended to a new commercial service called Lex.

The article reports that Zorin OS 12 Linux distribution release aims to make it easier for users of proprietary operating systems to work with Linux.

The article reviews open-source tools OpenSUSE 42.2 based on SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) from SUSE Linux GmbH.

The article reports that according to the third quarter State of the Internet Security report submitted by cloud service provider Akamai Technologies Inc., Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and web application attacks have increased in the third quarter of 2016. It states that on average there were 30 DDoS attacks per target, and the top DDoS attack of 623 Gbps was directed against security blogger Brian Krebs.

The article discusses the findings of a study by technology conglomerate Cisco which found the steady growth of cloud computing in 2015 which now makes up the majority of data center traffic at 827 exabytes (EB) . Topics covered include data center traffic projected to grow by 14.1 zettabytes (ZB) in 2020, the faster growth of public cloud than private cloud, and the expected growth of hyperscale data centers that help to enable large public clouds and popular social network providers.

The article presents charts and tables related to the Kaspersky Report on the 2016 Information Technology (IT) Threat Evolution including a pie graph on the Distribution of exploits used in attacks as to type of application in the third quarter of 2016 (Q3 2016), Malicious Installation Package Volume from July - September 2016 and the Number of unique users attacked by Trojan-Ransom cryptor malware in Q3 2016.

The article offers information on the OpenStack Summit, an event where developers, operators and vendors gather to discuss successes, detail challenges and plans related to telecommunication, held in Barcelona, Spain from October 24-27 2016. It reports that the event provides a place for developers to talk with operators and to look at higher-level issues faced by telecommunication industry around the world.

The article reports that according to the 451 Group, OpenStack's revenues will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 35 percent from 2015 through 2020. OpenStack as a platform consists of many projects, which are all adopted at different rates. At least seventy percent of OpenStack User Survey respondents consider saving money as the main business driver for OpenStack use.

The article previews the Ubuntu Linux 16.10 from Canonical.

The article discusses the release of the GNOME 3.22 open-source desktop environment for multiple Linux distributions.

The article presents the Internet/Security Report from content delivery network Akamai which reveals rise in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack traffic across the globe in second quarter of 2016. It informs about the Network Time Protocol (NTP) technique used by DDoS attackers. As per the report, China was the top source for DDoS attack traffic while Brazil led in web application attacks.

The article discusses the findings of a study on data security conducted by Intel Security's MacAfee Labs in 2015. It has found that the financial services industry and retailers are the most affected by data loss. It adds that 35% of organizations with 5,000 employees and above have higher data loss incidents. It cites some activities that may expose an organization to data security threats.

The article offers information on the Kali Linux 2016.2 software from Kali Linux.

The article reviews the report "BeyondTrust 2016 Privilege Benchmarking Study" that gauged how different companies handle the issue of privileged access management. Topics discussed include the use of an enterprise platform for managing privileged access being among the big differences identified in the study. Also mentioned are best practices in privileged access management, including granting privilege to the app, not the user, recycling of passwords and understanding risk requiring tools.

The article reports how distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in quarter 2 declined in the U.S. In the second quarter, the average peak attack size was reported at 17.37G bps, which is a sequential decline from the 19.37G bps reported in the first quarter of 2016. Verisign reported that 64 percent of attacks employed multiple attack types, with 9 percent making use of five or more attack types in a combined DDoS operation.

The article offers information on the LinuxCon North America conference held in the U.S. from August 22-25, 2016. Topics discussed include benefits of Linux operating system due to open-source technologies; declaring Linux as the most successful software project in history by Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation; and views of Red Hat chief executive officer (CEO) Jim Whitehurst on the uses of Linux.

The article celebrates the 25th anniversary of Linux operating system (OS) in 2016, and takes a look at how Linux kernel developed through times. Topics discussed include Linux's birth on August 25, 1991, the release of new kernel every 70 days, and the total of 12,283 Linux 4.7 kernel changes since the day it was released. LinuxCon is mentioned.

The article presents information on the seven open-source projects the Linux Foundation is working on. The CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter) Project deals with enabling network operators to manage their operations in a more seamless manner. The Open vSwitch effort officially became a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project on August 9, four years after the effort first was integrated into the Linux kernel.

The article discusses the highlights of the Black Hat USA and DefCon 24 conferences held from August 2 to 7, 2016. The event focused on computer network security issues. Speakers include security luminary Dan Kaminsky, car hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, and Elie Bursztein, an anti-fraud and abuse research team leader at technology firm Google.

The article reports that a study by Arbor Networks Inc. has found that massive Denial of service attacks (DDoS), are becoming a disturbing trend. In 2015, there were 16 DDoS attacks that were more than 200G bps, while in the first half of 2016 alone, there already have been 446. The top target for DDoS attacks is Port 80, used for Hyper Text transport Protocol (HTTP) and in second place is Domain Name Systems (DNS. The most Targeted Nation is the U.S. followed by South Korea and China.

The article provides information on the Linux Mint 18 enterprise application for Linux desktop computer.

The article discusses the highlights of the annual Red Hat Summit with the theme of harnessing the power of participation, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on June 28-30, 2016. Topics tackled at the summit presentations are the history of innovation, open-source platform for data analytics, and open-source models of innovation for space. Product and project launches at the event include the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7 and MicroProfile Project.

The article announces the 2016 launch of Fedora 24 operating system in desktop, cloud and server editions that has new open-source capabilities and is developed by software company Red Hat's community Linux distribution.

The article discusses various docker release and containers-as-a-service by DockerCon. According to Docker founder Solomon Hykes, about 4,000 people has come to DockerCon to learn about containers. It is noted that the Docker native application for Apple Mac and for Microsoft Windows entered a public beta on June 20, 2016. Hykes also used his time to announce the public betas for Docker for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Docker for Azure.

The article reports how average cost per data from malicious and criminal attacks was reported to be $221 per record in the U.S. as compared to the global average cost per lost or stolen record being $158 in 2016.

The article reports on an increase in the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in cloud services provider Akamai Technologies during the first quarter of 2016. Topics mentioned include a decline in the average DDoS attack duration from the first quarter of 2015 to 2016, the largest DDoS reported attack in Akamai in the first quarter of 2016, and China as the top source for DDoS attacks.

The article discusses how companies can boost their enterprise security program. Topics covered include the importance of cybersecurity to the successful operations of enterprises and the risks posed by cyberattacks to companies. Also mentioned are the different important ways to enhance the security defenses of firms.

The article describes how the use of collaboraton can help deal with staff shortages and improve efficiency. A study by Intel Security states that organizations with improved collaboration detect issues faster than other organizations. It also notes that collaboration can have a major effect on remediation times, offering the right information to the people who can make the required changes.

The article reports that according to Soha Systems' survey, 63 percent data breaches are somehow linked to the use of third-party resources. The Soha Systems study found that although most breaches can be linked to third-party resources, getting access to those resources is not always easy. The study also found that 57 percent or respondents reported that providing secure remote access is painful to enable, deploy and manage.

The article focuses on the CoreOS Fest which highlights launch of several projects by the software firm CoreOS to advance container delivery, networking and security. Topics include announcement made by the company's chief executive officer (CEO) Alex Polvi regarding raising 28 million U.S. dollars in Series B round of funding; information about JWTproxy service by its chief technical officer (CTO) Brandon Philips; and views of the firm's Greg Kroah-Hartman on growth of Linux operating system.

The article offers information on the 2016 OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas on cloud technology.

The article previews the Ubuntu 16.04 Linux operating system.

The article reports that the Domain Name System (DNS) Threat Index of computer networking company Infoblox in the fourth quarter of 2015 showed an increase in malicious domains powered in part by exploit kits. Topics mentioned include DNS Threat Index as a representative sampling, an increase in DNS Threat Index by 49 percent year over year, and percentage of malicious domains with a knowable country of origin that were hosted in the U.S. according to Infoblox.

The article discusses the update to the GNOME open-source desktop environment GNOME 3.20, code-named Delhi, and its new features. It includes providing shortcuts to the Linux desktop that provide users with a list of keyboard shortcuts to perform actions in an application, being able to perform a full system update with the software application, and an improvement in the Polari Internet Relay Chat (IRC) which makes it faster to join a chatroom coupled with new image sharing capabilities.