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Ransomware extortionists are feasting on the Internet of Things, maintained Simon Crosby, CTO of Bromium To prevent these attacks, devices need to be shielded so they're not exposed on the Internet where hackers can find them, he said....

"Ultimately, Microsoft's new anti-exploit features in Windows calls into question the value of legacy antivirus protections," said Simon Crosby, CTO of Bromium "However, it is important to note that relatively few enterprises use Windows 10 yet, so any Microsoft mitigation in ...

An evil docker container could attack its host or another container. The isolation between containers is good, but it's not as good as between virtual machines, enforced by the CPU, according to Simon Crosby, CTO ofBromium "Ultimately, Docker is already vastly better off than ...

"Overall this is a good step forward, but it doesn't address legacy dependencies," said Simon Crosby, CTO atBromium "For example, if your company uses Oracle ERP 11, you're still stuck on Java 6 or 7 on the endpoint, which have a woeful security record," he told TechNewsWorld....

"If you're in the business of patching, you've got to get out of it," said Simon Crosby, CTO and co-founder ofBromium "We need to get humans out of the loop," he told TechNewsWorld....

"Paying ransoms makes the business model for the criminals work," Simon Crosby, CTO ofBromium, told LinuxInsider "Collectively, we're all worse off when people pay these ransoms," RiskAnalytics' Stull told LinuxInsider. "It's the same reason the United States says it doesn't n...

"Flash has a huge attack surface because it is a complex execution environment, so we ought to expect to see many more zero days used in future attacks," said Simon Crosby, CTO ofBromium "Adobe does what it can, but ultimately this is a game that favors the attacker," he told ...

"There is no assurance of privacy or security in transmission or delivery of direct messages," said Simon Crosby, CTO and cofounder of Bromium "Adding serious security controls to DMs would be a massive amount of work, and it's not clear that users view Twitter as a platform t...

Even though there is much debate raging over the impact of human activities on our environment, a diverse group of industry leaders, government agencies, environmental groups and others do agree on one thing -- that energy efficiency is the most significant issue facing technology providers and their customers today. This is due to exponential increases in power and cooling costs over the past few years, and to customer demand for concentrated computing that is outpacing the availability of clean, reliable power in numerous locations worldwide. Most estimates say that computers account for approximately 2 percent of worldwide energy usage.

In his keynote speech at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer for Citrix Systems, announced the company's plan to open source Project Kensho, a set of tools that will help migrate virtual machines between different hypervisors and virtualization platforms...

"We're trying to move the market to volume," XenSource Chief Technology Officer Simon Crosby told LinuxInsider, referring to astrategy focused on distribution, Linux and other partners. "XenSource is trying to turn on volume virtualization." The Wider World of Windows...

LinuxInsider caught up with XenSource Chief Technology Officer Simon Crosby recently to discuss Xen's Linux and Windows interoperability, and to find out what we might expect to see next from Xen LinuxInsider: XenSource and Xen virtualization software has certainly been a hot ...