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AntiLeaks Takes Down WikiLeaks

By Mike Wheatley Aug 9, 2012

Following five days of sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the WikiLeaks website has been taken offline. The whistle blowing website had reportedly been under attack since August 3, apparently from a previously…

Graphs are Everywhere: Solving the Complexities of Social Connections

By Guest Author Aug 9, 2012

Graphs are everywhere. From websites adding social capabilities, to telcos providing personalized customer services, to innovative bioinformatics research, organizations are integrating graphs into their web sites. Many high profile companies are specifically adopting graph…

Anonymous Strikes Back Against Ukrainian Government over BitTorrent with #OpDemonoid

By Kyt Dotson Aug 9, 2012

The Anonymous hacktivist collective has pulled their try-hard pants on and taken their stomping books to the Ukrainian government over the takedown of the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid. As reported by TorrentFreak, the raid…

Millennial Media Beats Market Expectations with Q2 Earnings

By Maria Deutscher Aug 9, 2012

Millennial Media held an earnings call for its second quarter this week, and while losses widened considerably the company reported some stellar growth that did not disappoint Wall Street. Millennial lost $2.2 million, or 3…

CyberWars 3: A New Business Reality @CyberWars

By Bert Latamore Aug 9, 2012

Ed note: This is the third in a series on Cyber Wars, covering what makes this threat different, and why businesses need to be concerned. This piece focuses on how businesses need to change…

DataStax CTO Says Cassandra is for Practical Problem Solvers

By Kathryn Buford Aug 9, 2012

In their ongoing coverage of the 2012 Cassandra Summit in Santa Clara, California, John Furrier and Jeff Kelly spoke with Co-Founder and CTO of DataStax, Jonathan Ellis (see full video below). The panelists discuss Cassandra’s…

Garantia Debuts In-Memory NoSQL Service

By Maria Deutscher Aug 9, 2012

Garantia Data is an emerging startup that is among the 11 finalists of this week’s GigaOM Structure LaunchPad competition, and it brings a rather interesting new cloud service to the table. Garantia’s product targets Memcached…

What is it about Paris that Makes it Look Like, Well, Paris?

By Mike Wheatley Aug 9, 2012

Some people might say that the city possesses a certain je ne sais quoi, others might point to the iconic Eiffel Tower, but for a new machine-learning program created by Carnegie Mellon, it’s the…

Thinking about Work While on Vacation? Most of You Will Just Work Remotely [Infographic]

By Saroj Kar Aug 9, 2012

Even while vacationing, it’s difficult to completely disconnect from work thanks to the portability of the office. This is the case for over half of respondents, according to a new Cisco WebEx survey of…

FalconStor Appoints Louis Petrucelly as CFO

By Maria Deutscher Aug 9, 2012

Backup and recovery solutions provider Falconstor said this week that Louis Petrucelly is now the company’s chief financial officer. He has been the acting CFO since May and now the promotion has been made…