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Hire a DDoS attack for as little as five dollars

Hire a DDoS attack for as little as five dollars

Some DDoS attacks are small, some are large, and some cost as little as five dollars…

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Japanese government aims to hire more computer security specialists following … – South China Morning Post (subscription)


South China Morning Post (subscription)

Japanese government aims to hire more computer security specialists following
South China Morning Post (subscription)
The Japanese government was planning to increase the number of "white hat hackers", or specialists who use their skills to improve computer security, following massive personal data leaks from the country's pension service earlier this month, officials

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Netflix looking to hire a ‘Chaos Engineer’

Here’s a job offering you don’t see every day (asterisks mine): “Netflix is hiring a ‘Chaos Engineer’ … Basically, somebody to go in and f**k s**t up to prove we can recover. Ping me for details!”

The “recruiter” in this case is Dan Woods, a senior software engineer at Netflix, and the “listing” was in the form of a tweet, which elicited a string of wisecracks – and a few expressions of interest — from the Twitter crowd:

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Netflix is no stranger to chaos. In 2012 the company released the source code for Chaos Monkey, the first of its Simian Army collection of cloud testing tools.

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Network World Paul McNamara