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Riverbed Strengthens and Expands Enterprise SD-WAN Market Presence, Signs Strategic Global OEM Agreement with Versa Networks

Riverbed combines world-class expertise, support and services, and leadership in digital performance with Versa Network’s award-winning enterprise-class technology, providing a complete and powerful family of next-gen networking solutions for global organizations of all sizes and typesSAN FRANCISCO – June 12, 2019 –Riverbed®, The Digital Performance Company™, today announced it has signed a global original equipment […]

Q1 2019 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects from KnowBe4 [INFOGRAPHIC]

Every quarter, KnowBe4 reports on the top-clicked phishing emails by subject lines in three categories: Social, General, and ‘In the Wild’. The latter category results come from the millions of users that click on our Phish Alert Button to report real phishing emails and allow our team to analyze the results.Social Media Is Now A […]

Tax Fraud Advice, Straight from the Scammers

Some of the most frank and useful information about how to fight fraud comes directly from the mouths of the crooks themselves. Online cybercrime forums play a critical role here, allowing thieves to compare notes about how to evade new security roadblocks and steer clear of fraud tripwires.

No its not a bloody free load balancer and never will be.

Last week we exhibited at Cloud Expo Europe, promoting the release of the new cloud products:  ENTERPRISE AWS + ENTERPRISE AZURE . We love trade shows, it provides a platform to meet existing customers as well as potential new customers. Several people visiting our stand mentioned the recent announcement that  Kemp Technologies have released a free load balancer . Understandably they were interested to hear if we would be responding in kind, however in his usual politically correct mood our boss responded with: “ No, its not bloody free and never will be”, Malcolm Turnbull – CEO Loadbalancer.org As usual we had a good chat with the guys on the Kemp stand, nice people, with a good product – but apparently they said they don’t compete with us. We really enjoyed meeting some existing customers and potential new ones.

Simple Denial of Service DOS attack mitigation using HAProxy

Denial of Service (DOS) attacks can be especially effective against certain types of web application. If the application is highly dynamic or database intensive it can be remarkably simple to degrade or cripple the functionality of a site. This blog article describes some simple methods to mitigate single source IP DOS attacks using HAProxy. I’ve described how you would implement the techniques using the Loadbalancer.org appliance but they are easily transferable to any HAProxy based cluster

Black Friday black out protection with HAProxy

The media industry had lots of fun at the expense of e-commerce outlets on Black Friday  mercilessly reporting on site crashes and outages  . My wife yelled that I needed to ‘fix the Internet’ when Argos.co.uk would not respond immediately to her demands on Friday evening.

Amazon: Spam Nation one of “Best of Month”

A quick update on my new book,  Spam Nation, The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime — From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door debuting on bookstore shelves  Tuesday, Nov. 18 :   Amazon has selected Spam Nation as one of their “ Best Books of the Month ” picks for November, listed alongside such notable authors as  Stephen King  and  Nora Roberts .