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Docker discovers critical flaws: Users urged to upgrade
As the Docker container craze continues to gather pace, it’s a foregone conclusion that vulnerabilities in the technology will emerge. Docker containers sprung their first major leak back in June when a quickly patched vulnerability was discovered that allowed rogue programs to break out of their containers and access files on the host operating system. ...
Mozilla’s revenues stay flat: Is Firefox destined to flop?
The Mozilla Foundation released its annual financial report for 2013 last Friday, and it wasn’t exactly good news. With revenues increasing by just one percent from the year before, and it’s main benefactor Google Inc. about to wave goodbye, it raises questions about Mozilla’s ability to advance its stated mission to promote openness, innovation & ...
Analysts: Windows Phone will surpass Android in the enterprise
The fortune tellers over at CCS Insight are forecasting good things for Microsoft, claiming its Windows Phone OS is set to become the number two platform for enterprise users by 2016. Speaking to The Register, Nick McQuire, VP of Enterprise Research at CCS Insight said Windows Phone, which is soon to be revamped as “Windows ...
Symantec unearths sophisticated malware that’s been in the wild for at least 6 years
Researchers from the security firm Symantec Corp. have uncovered evidence of “highly advanced malware” in the wild. They believe the virus was developed by a nation-state state to spy on targets in various industries, including airlines, banking, energy, hospitality and research. The malware has been given the name “Regin” and, according to Symantec, it displays ...
NASA’s building a ‘living’ drone that decomposes on impact
If you’re flying surveillance drones and don’t want them to be found by the people you’re spying on, ‘living’ drones that decompose after a crash landing might be just what you’re looking for. NASA and a team of students from Stanford and Brown Universities, have built the world’s first “biological UAV”, an autonomous flying machine ...
Primary Data hires Steve Wozniak, bids to “reinvent” storage
Storage startup Primary Data has just come out of stealth, teasing a new technology it hopes can virtualize the world’s data. The company claims it will reinvent “file virtualization” in the software-defined data center, and has just secured the services of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to help make it happen. Wozniak joins Primary Data from ...
Mozilla swaps Google for Yahoo! as default search partner in Firefox
The Mozilla Foundation has announced it’s divorcing its chief search engine partner Google Inc. after ten years, and will instead offer Yahoo! as the default search tool in its Firefox browser. Mozilla didn’t discuss how much money was involved, but said the deal will last for the next five years. Firefox has always allowed users ...
Seagate rolls out Hadoop Workflow Accelerator to boost Big Data analytics
Storage giant Seagate Technology Inc. is moving to accommodate Big Data workloads with the introduction of a new ClusterStor Hadoop Workflow Accelerator tool. It offers a set of tools and services for optimizing Hadoop, which should boost the performance of its ClusterStor scale-out storage system. Seagate’s Hadoop Workflow Accelerator sounds promising for those who are ...
Airware’s drones get ready for take-off with GE Ventures investment
There’s still a lot of controversy about the safety of unmanned drones buzzing about over our heads, but the idea is getting more popular by the day. A case in point is GE Ventures, which has just announced its plan to collaborate with the San Francisco-based startup Airware, which builds hardware, software and services for ...
Cisco, Mozilla & friends launch Let’s Encrypt to simplify Internet security
A motley crew of tech firms have banded together to launch a new certificate authority initiative called “Let’s Encrypt”, that hopes to make the World Wide Web a safer place to be. Let’s Encrypt, which is backed by Akamai Technologies Inc, Cisco Systems, Inc., the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the Mozilla Foundation, comes at ...