A developer has just discovered that the online accounts of Virgin Mobile USA subscribers are highly vulnerable to brute force attacks, as the mobile company employs poor security guidelines on its website, forcing its customers to use weak passwords for their online accounts. The vulnerability of Virgin Mobile website was discovered by Kevin Burke, a ...

CouchConf is a premier event for all those interested in NoSQL database technology. This one-day event will kick start on September 21, 2012, will be held globally across 5 cities, and will let developers know about Couchbase NoSQL technology, where it’s headed and build cool stuff with this technology. The best part is that it ...

NoSQL data layer as a service provider, Cloudant, has announced that personal training mobile app, GAIN Fitness has selected it to replace PostgreSQL, in order to provide more scalable application performance to their rapidly growing user base. GAIN Fitness will leverage Cloudant’s Data Layer managed cloud database service to enrich the user experience with real ...

Microsoft recently announced that it has enabled IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2012 for DevOps, which will help the developer community to track coding issues easily and effortlessly. Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 is already shipping for the last three weeks, but the Windows maker has just extended the IntelliTrace for DevOps, to the its Systems Center ...

appMobi, a leading company supporting mobile app development and deployment using HTML5, has announced the privateStack, a new HTML5 app development and cloud services stack for the enterprise market. appMobi has led the charge on HTML5 development tools and cloud services, but continued to hear from businesses, organizations and government agencies that they needed complete ...

Telerik, market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for software application, lifecycle, and content management solutions, has just announced its Windows 8 UI Controls Release Candidate that will help the entire developer community to build apps for the Windows store in a better way. Along with the Release Candidate, the company has also released two new controls ...

Glastopf Web Application Honeypot software has got the capability of emulating applications vulnerable to SQL injection attacks, which will ultimately be helpful in tricking attackers into revealing their intentions. The component has been created by The Honeynet Project, a non-profit organization that develops open-source security research tools, to collect technical information about SQL-based malware and ...

General Dynamics, Defense industry contractor for shipbuilding and marine systems, defense systems, land and amphibious combat systems and munitions, has completed their acquisition of Open Kernel Labs. OK Labs is a NICTA start-up company, and a provider of virtualization software for securing wireless communications, applications and content for mobile devices and automotive in-vehicle infotainment systems. While ...

RICON 2012, the two-day Distributed Systems Conference for developers, has got its speaker list confirmed. Basho Technologies, the organizer, today confirmed the speaker lineup for the event to be held October 10-11 in San Francisco, CA. RICON 2012 is dedicated to Riak, developers and the future of distributed systems, and will bring together all relevant ...

DevOps is a savior for the entire IT industry as it is not only significant for the enterprise, but for their consumers as well. It helps deliver fast, while keeping the teams together and agile. But what else it can do? Can it transform the organizational culture? Can it help teams adapt to change? Yes! ...