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Joomla zero-day SQL Injection flaw patched, affects millions of websites
Last week, Trustwave SpiderLabs discovered a SQL injection vulnerability exploit in widely popular web content management software (CMS) Joomla that allowed for access to administrative areas. Shortly thereafter, Open Source Matters, Inc., developers of Joomla, released version 3.4.5 to address this issue. Administrators are urged to upgrade immediately to seal up the vulnerability. The exploit ...
Pantheon for EDU: Managing websites for schools just got easier
For organizations with a large number of web properties to manage–because of sheer size, numerous departments, multiple locations or open access to employees and students–a content management system (CMS) is the best tool. This week Pantheon Systems, Inc., a powerful website management platform for WordPress and Drupal, announced Pantheon for EDU: the only product of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 October 21: Kinguin partners with BitPay, corrupt agent sentenced in Silk Road theft, Voxelus cryptocurrency
This week opened up with the Bitcoin market rising almost $20 over last week and peeking into the $270 range–thus opening up rumors and speculation as to what’s causing this rising market. As with the last time Bitcoin saw a sudden bust of value, China is rumored to be behind it (or at least China ...
Bitcoin Group on track for world’s first Bitcoin mining IPO with $3m via BnkToTheFuture
Melbourne-based Bitcoin Group Limited is a hair’s breadth away from an Initial Public Offering after raising over $3 million on Bitcoin equity website BnkToTheFuture (Bnk To The Future Ltd.). According to Forbes, the company has raised most of the $3.6 million needed for the IPO–and according to Bitcoin Group’s BnkToTheFuture website the company has exceeded its goals. ...
Popcorn Time pirate movie streaming coming to a browser near you
It has never been so easy to watch popular movies and TV shows on your computer without having to buy them, all made possible by the widely popular application Popcorn Time. The app, described as “Netflix for pirates,” uses the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol to stream movies in a fashion similar to other networks used by ...
MIT developing a system that replaces human intuition for big data analysis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are looking to take human intuition out of big data analysis by letting computers choose the feature set used to identify predictive patterns in the data. This effort is called “Data Science Machine” and so far the prototype of this ...
‘Voxels’ to become the first cryptocurrency to power a VR marketplace via Voxelus
First debut at Oculus Connect last month, Voxelus (www.voxelus.com), the world’s first end-to-end virtual reality content creation platform, expects to launch the largest marketplace for virtual reality assets and games next year. The in-platform currency used on the Voxelus platform will be a cryptographically secure in-game token called “voxels” and to secure funding the company ...
City of Paradigm: A new dawn for Virtual Reality
Below is an excerpt from Kyt Dotson’s novel City of Paradigm, a science fiction tale about a fictional 21st century city situated somewhere in California. Each City of Paradigm column is two parts: an excerpt from the novel and an editorial describing the real-world context of the technologies described in the story. Readers may find ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 October 14: Purse.io breach and bitcoin theft, Blockstream releases Liquid sidechain, Gaming marketplace G2A partners with BitPay
This week Purse.io, a company that connects people with Bitcoins with people who have Amazon gift cards, saw several customers accounts compromised and a small amount of bitcoins stolen. While the investigation is ongoing, the company has managed to pin down the problem and resolved it over the weekend, see below for the news. Blockstream, ...
Conductive fiber breakthrough has implications for human-sensing wearables
Clothing is an everyday thing to many people and has seen many technological innovations: elastic fabrics that stretch, thick fabrics that repel rain and cold, open fabrics that “breathe,” and now with the aid of weave that conduct electricity will come fabrics that can communicate. Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science ...