Jigsaw Platform now supports Cloudera Hadoop The Jigsaw R&D Team has finished building out a new installer for the Jigsaw Enterprise Platform that now supports Cloudera Hadoop. The new capability enables Jigsaw customers to offload indexes directly into Hadoop for archival purposes. "With the requirements of some industries requiring years of retention, this new capability goes a long way toward meeting compliance requirements and retention" said Kevin Wetzel, CEO of Jigsaw S

Back on August 25th Jigsaw reported on an issue with anti-virus technologies and the threat they actually pose to organizations. We wanted to put out an alert because we started seeing machines compromised through clever manipulation of anti-virus code that was running as Administrator (simply because it has to). So it was surprising while monitoring our OSINT sources today to see an article on Dark Reading titled "New Microsoft Kernel Bug Could Permit Malicious Modules". Wha

One of the things we have noted is there is a shift away from Anti-Virus products and a move toward better technologies such as network traffic string detection. As we reported earlier this year we are seeing very specific attacks on Anti-Virus technology itself. In fact we have seen some actors targeting the Anti-Virus eco-system by exploiting the fact that Anti-Virus has to run as a privileged process to actually be effective. Because of this hackers are starting to target