If you have chosen the Dutch company Antagonist as your hosting provider, here’s a reason to be merry: it has just announced a unique technology that automatically detects and fixes vulnerabilities in their customers’ websites. This makes Antagonist the first company to offer this service. With launch of this in-house technology, Antagonist is helping fight ...

Following the allegations of murder of his neighbor Gregory Faull, Anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has decided to help finding the actual murderer, and has started blogging for the same. Faull was shot dead on Saturday, 10 November, for which police wanted to interview McAfee as a material witness. But McAfee said he doesn’t trust the ...

An intrusion was recently detected into two machines in the FreeBSD infrastructure; and the attack was facilitated with the help of a stolen SSH authentication key and login credentials. Following this, the affected machines were taken offline for further analysis, and to understand the extent of damage. Here’s what FreeBSD reported on its website about ...

Joyent recently released the Joyent7, the first fabric-based cloud infrastructure platform that will help enterprises and cloud service providers to fulfill their ever increasing cloud management needs. Joyent7 has been designed to deliver the performance required to run solutions for almost endless users, and allow enterprises of any size to become a cloud services provider ...

After the recent laptop and document theft from its premises, NASA has ordered a policy to ensure encryption on all its laptops. The said machine was stolen from a locked vehicle of one of its employees at NASA headquarters in Washington DC. Following the incident the agency has forbidden staff from removing NASA-issued laptops containing ...

Windows PowerShell 3, Microsoft’s task automation framework that came out earlier this year is now better optimized for the DevOps community as it comes with several useful features like task scheduler, easier scripting, 10x more cmdlets, and tool building enhancements. While PowerShell was always in favor of developers, the newly released version makes the experience ...

As Microsoft announced that its latest Windows 8 will come with bundled security software, anti-virus vendors have started lashing out, and criticizing its efforts to secure its operating system. Romanian antivirus vendor Bitdefender has even started conducting tests on Windows 8, and reported that it can be infected by 16 percent of the most common ...

How does it sound when a top level executive of Federal investigation agency could not safeguard his online privacy and activities…weird? Well, if yes, we are talking about the CIA chief David Petraeus, who could not uphold himself and his fling from getting public. This forced Petraeus to resign last week when it became clear ...

Just after Apple replaced Google’s mobile map tool with a half-baked application of its own, the search giant began prepping its own Maps app for the iPhone and iPad. According to an insider, Google has currently distributed a test version of its new mapping app that will work on Apple’s iPhones to some individuals outside ...

Microsoft has just announced the preview of its Windows Azure store, giving developers a good reason to smile. By offering this preview, Microsoft has allowed developers to taste the Windows Azure and its features, which includes catalog of app services, ranging from monitoring and scaling, to mail delivery to databases. “We’re releasing our Windows Azure ...