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Google publishes unpatched vulnerability in Windows 8.1
Google has made Microsoft look a bit foolish after publishing details of a vulnerability it discovered in Windows 8.1 that allows attackers to gain system administrator privileges. Google didn’t hesitate to release the vulnerability, as well as the code needed to exploit it under its “Project Zero” initiative. That project team is tasked with tracking ...
Verizon Cloud customers brace themselves for two-day outage
Verizon has admitted its cloud services will go offline for as long as 48 hours next weekend, during which time all virtual machines hosted there will be unavailable. Verizon’s Cloud Client Care page neglects to mention the scheduled updates, which are supposedly unavoidable to enable new, unnamed improvements to the service, but the company has ...
Hortonworks adds new Hadoop certifications for partners
Riding on the early success of its IPO, open-source Hadoop heavyweight Hortonworks Inc. has announced it’s extending its partner developer certification program, adding certifications in operations, security and governance for partners that develop software around its platform. Palo Alto-based Hortonworks says the aim is to accelerate Hadoop’s growing adoption in tne enterprise by adding support ...
Cybercriminals exploit AirAsia tragedy with malicious links
Cybercriminals have latched on to the AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ 8501 tragedy, taking advantage of people’s curiosity to lure them into clicking on malicious links in an attempt to steal their personal information. AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ 8501 lost contact with air traffic control yesterday morning at 7.24am local time. A search and rescue operation ...
China blocks access to Google’s Gmail service again
China’s Internet censors have been busy over the Christmas weekend, with reports suggesting the country has blocked access to Google’s Gmail service since December 26. Web traffic research outfit Dyn Research said that Gmail’s traffic is being blocked at the IP source, which means the service is inaccessible to most Chinese netizens. The disruption is ...
Is Hadoop over-hyped? Market-watchers say no
When an organization wants to dig into its Big Data these days, it’s almost inevitable that Hadoop, the open-source data storage and processing framework for dealing with extremely large data sets, will get the call. It’s easy to see why Hadoop is such an appealing option. The platform offers both distributed and computational capabilities for ...
Ireland sides with Microsoft over US email demands
Microsoft has picked up a hefty ally in its battle to oppose a US court order demanding access to emails stored in its Dublin, Ireland data center. The Irish government has sided with Redmond, claiming that if Microsoft gives in to the US government’s demands, it could have big consequences for international sovereignty and digital ...
PlayStation Network and Xbox Live hacked on Xmas Day, forcing millions of gamers offline
Thousands of video gamers had their Christmas Day fun ruined yesterday thanks to a bunch of mischievous hackers who contrived to knock out both Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming service yesterday. Ho ho ho! Even worse, it seems that neither service has quite managed to recover. While the PSN status page ...
IDC highlights top Big Data trends for 2015
Fewer tech trends are likely to be hotter than Big Data analytics in 2015 as far as the enterprise is concerned. Hot on the heels of Forrester’s forecast that Hadoop will become an “enterprise priority” in the next 12 months, International Data corp. has just gazed into its own crystal ball, and sees a future ...
North Korea kicked entirely offline in apparent Sony hack retaliation
If you play with fire, expect to get burned. That’s a lesson that North Korea has learned the hard way after suddenly finding itself wiped off the face of the Internet, following an outage that appears to be the result of a retaliatory attack from the US, Sony and their allies. It’s just the latest ...