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Check out all of the top [Palo Alto Networks news](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/category/news-of-the-week/) from this past week.

The first post in our new blog series titled 'Examining the Cybercrime Underground' [explores "crypters,"](http://bit.ly/1COTkrk) software tools that use encryption, obfuscation, and code manipulation of malware to make them "fully undetectable" by legacy security products.

Joerg Sieber [discusses](http://bit.ly/1El64pu) big data and the security employment shortage, and gives tips on how to cut back on the noise in your network.

[Find out how](http://bit.ly/1yU5R81) Palo Alto Networks Traps would prevent techniques used in Carbanak campaign.

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