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Tor remains vulnerable to Heartbleed, pulls back capacity
More than a week after we first learned about the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL – the encryption that protects more than half of the Internet, according to Netcraft’s April 2014 Web Server Survey – it’s been revealed that large numbers of systems that run the anonymous Tor network remain unpatched. In order to protect Tor’s security, ...
Developers movin’ on top: How open-source + cloud changed the landscape
One of the biggest ongoing conversations in tech right now pertains to the shifting role of developers, and what this will mean for IT departments. A recent survey by Puppet Labs shows that developers are becoming so influential in shaping products and user experience, that business success demands an understanding of just how important a ...
IBM beefs up SoftLayer with disaster recovery services
IBM is adding to its SoftLayer platform by introducing extra security and disaster recovery services, hoping to allay fears about critical data loss in the cloud. Its disaster recovery-as-a-service is able to recover workloads running on IBM’s AIX, Windows or Linux “within minutes” according to a video announcing the product. The announcement, which was made ...
Red Hat unveils ‘Project Atomic’ to rule container-loaded servers #RHSummit
This week saw Red Hat showing off its newest enterprise Linux technologies, and it’s betting big on virtualization containers. At its annual Red Hat Summit yesterday, it showed off a new virtualization initiative leveraging open-source container technology from Docker, known as Project Atomic. Project Atomic combines components like geard, systemd, and rpm-OSTree with Docker’s containerization ...
Time to update Windows 8.1, it’s just about to be made obsolete
So you’ve only just updated to Windows 8.1, now what? Well, Microsoft wants you to update again, and do it pretty damn quickly, because its about to stop providing support for earlier versions of its ‘latest’ operating system. As of May, Windows 8.1 will effectively be made obsolete already – much like Windows XP is ...
Red Hat launches cloudy marketplace at #RHSummit
An app store of something of a ‘must-have’ for any budding tech giant these days, and that’s why Red Hat has become the latest player to launch its own digital marketplace. The Linux company has just announced the arrival of its OpenShift Marketplace to help reduce the time it takes for admins to layer third-party ...
Google confirms its lofty ambitions with Titan Aerospace acquisition
Google has ‘soared’ ahead of Facebook in the race to bring connectivity to some of the the world’s most under-developed regions following the acquisition of solar-powered drone making company Titan Aerospace yesterday. The web giant says that its new drones will be used to assist in “Project Loon”, its existing scheme to deliver internet accessibility ...
China’s APT groups can’t stop hacking US
China apparently isn’t the least bit bothered that we know all about it’s cyberhacking activities, as security firm Mandiant reports that two of its major advanced persistent threat (APT) groups have resumed full operations, despite their public exposure last year. The company announced the news in its M-Trends report, saying that it’s been keeping a ...
Did the NSA know about Heartbleed before everyone else?
One of the first questions asked by many when OpenSSL’s Heartbleed vulnerability first came to light was whether or not the bug may have been put there deliberately, either by national intelligence agencies or some other malicious actor. But even if they didn’t, and it really was an accident, that leaves us to wonder whether ...
Microsoft guns for VMware with updated MVMC 2.0 conversion tool
Microsoft’s virtualization push has been growing for some time already, and yesterday it fired another shot in the direction of VMware users, announcing an updated Virtual Machine Converter that can move virtual machines from ESXi to Hyper-V. That Microsoft wants to win over Vmware users is no secret – last year it pitched a free, ...
