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Security and Datacenters

A Datacenter is a collection of several different elements, all working together to offer a platform to our digital needs. A datacenter is actually a mix of different elements, some logic some physical, it is just not a mere collection of elements but a complex systems with a lot of interactions. We can easily see inside the datacenter, cables, racks, servers, network equipments, storage units and so on but all are there (or should be there) for a purpose and are interconnected. A big part of a datacenter is not even visible; it is the software and data running in…

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TCP Split Handshake Issue

Image via WikipediaTCP Split Handshake Issue those days I’ve read on the news a lot of noise about an NSS test that were reporting a TCP handshake security hole (TCP Split Handshake Issue) in several commercial firewalls. The question is interesting from several points of view: are IPS and firewall really secure? is a vulnerability really a security issue? how does this vulnerability affect me? http://portadiferro.blogspot.com/2011/04/tcp-split-handshake-issue.html Related articles Other Considerations On TCP Split Handshake (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) TCP Split Handshake: Why Cisco ASA is not susceptible (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) TCP Split Handshake: The (Never)ending Story… (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) TCP Split Handshake Attack Explained (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) Hacker ‘handshake’…

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