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Real World Haskell. Hackers see the cloud as ripe territory | Security. Is the cloud a hacker's paradise? A survey at last month's Defcon hacking conference paints that picture. Sponsored by security vendor Fortify Software, the survey asked 100 hackers who attended Defcon about security in the cloud. A sizable 96 percent said they believe the cloud opens up more hacking opportunities, while 89 percent said cloud vendors aren't doing enough to address cybersecurity issues. Among the hackers surveyed, 45 percent said they had already tried to exploit vulnerabilities in the cloud. Although only 12 percent admitted to hacking into cloud systems for the money, that's still a significant percentage to ponder for companies moving to the cloud, according to Fortify. Drilling down further, 21 percent of those questioned see software as a service (SaaS) cloud systems as the most vulnerable. Other surveys have likewise found that IT professionals see the cloud as a risky place to house resources.

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Applications. Wired. A Protein Killer Could Treat All Cancers, and Possibly All Illnesses. Since last April, 19 cancer patients whose liver tumors hadn’t responded to chemotherapy have taken an experimental drug. Within weeks of the first dose, it appeared to work, by preventing tumors from making proteins they need to survive. The results are preliminary yet encouraging. With a slight redesign, the drug might work for hundreds of diseases, fulfilling the promise that wonder cures like stem cells and gene therapy have failed to deliver.

The biotech company Alnylam announced in June that its drug ALN-VSP cut off blood flow to 62 percent of liver-cancer tumors in those 19 patients, by triggering a rarely used defense mechanism in the body to silence cancerous genes. Whereas conventional drugs stop disease-causing proteins, ALN-VSP uses RNA interference (RNAi) therapy to stop cells from making proteins in the first place, a tactic that could work for just about any disease. Here’s another analogy: If DNA is the blueprint for proteins, RNA is the contractor. Learn Ethical Hacking Tools Free Hacking Tricks How To Hack Hacking Passwords & Email Hacking. Google Hacking: Ten Simple Security Searches That Work. Google has become the de facto standard in the search arena. It’s easy, quick and powerful. For those same reasons that the general user has gravitated to Google, so have the hackers.

And as we all know, if the hackers do Google Hacking, the security professionals need to utilize it as well. And it doesn’t hurt to have Johnny Long (with help from Ed Skoudis) showing you the ropes. Enjoy this highly informative book. We did! Solutions in this Chapter: Siteintitle:index.oferror | warninglogin | logonusername | userid | employee.ID | “your username is”password | passcode | “your password is”admin | administrator–ext:html –ext:htm –ext:shtml –ext:asp –ext:phpinurl:temp | inurl:tmp | inurl:backup | inurl:bakintranet | help.deskList of Sites Introduction Although we see literally hundreds of Google searches throughout this book, sometimes it’s nice to know there’s a few searches that give good results just about every time.

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