IDG News Service - With an eye toward updating the World Wide Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer ...
Tags: IETF, HTTP standard, Internet Engineering, Web, Google
A marketplace where security researchers can sell details on software bugs said it was compromised on Tuesday due to an "embarrassing oversight" that left its web server vulnerable. ExploitHub, based in Austin, Texas, has an online ...
Tags: ExploitHub, software, software bugs, web server, SQL database
Network World - VMware has issued a patch for its VMware View product that fixes a security vulnerability that could allow an unauthorized user to access system files. "VMware View contains a critical directory traversal vulnerability ...
Tags: VMware, security vulnerability, system files, arbitrary files
The release of InterMapper 5.6 features numerous enhancements to our industry leading network monitoring and mapping solution. WEST LEBANON, NH, August 23, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dartware, a leading provider of network monitoring, ...
Tags: InterMapper, Computer Products, network
Canonical has released both the server and desktop editions of 12.10 Ubuntu, which offers a glimpse of how this Linux distribution will evolve in the next few years. Ubuntu 12.10 "effectively sets out the future direction of how Ubuntu ...
Tags: Canonical, server, desktop editions, 12.10 Ubuntu, Linux distribution
Creative Research Systems announced today that they have been named "Purveyor of the Year" by Bloomin' Brands, the parent company of major restaurant chains such as Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba's Italian Grill and several other brands. ...
Tags: Creative Research Systems, Purveyor of the Year, Outback Steakhouse
PC World - Fans of Linux may recall the "31 Flavors of Fun" project I wrote about last month through which ambitious developer Todd Robinson planned to "create, and release, a complete desktop operating system each and every day for the ...
Tags: "31 Flavors of Fun"project, Linux, desktop operating system
IDG News Service - A large auto insurance provider has become embroiled in a court battle with Pitney Bowes, alleging that the software vendor claims a 20-year-old license agreement between the companies has been significantly ...
Tags: auto insurance, software, LPC, computer products
Amazon Web Services has made it possible to roll out Python-based applications using Elastic Beanstalk, which aims to make it easier to deploy and manage applications in its cloud, the company said on Sunday. Elastic Beanstalk, which is ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, Python app, Elastic Beanstalk, cloud
SkyBiometry will provide software-as-a-service biometric services to bring facial recognition technology to the cloud platform SkyBiometry, a new company providing cloud-based biometric software as a service (SaaS), has been ...
Tags: Biometric company, cloud service, software service, cloud platform
With the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 13, Microsoft is encouraging developers and administrators to use open Web technologies such as JavaScript, CSS and HTML to build their add-on apps. Microsoft wanted to "modernize the way the ...
Tags: Microsoft Office 13, Microsoft, Web technologies, JavaScript, CSS, HTML
Several big vendors including Red Hat, Oracle, Cloudera and Citrix have made announcements this week that show software support is on its way for 64-bit ARM hardware The companies all announced development plans for 64-bit ARM hardware. ...
Tags: 64 bit, ARM, Citrix, hardware, Oracle, Red Hat, software
China and the U.S. were the two largest sources of Internet-attack traffic in the first quarter of 2012, increasing to account for 16% and 11% respectively, according to Akamai Technologies. Attack traffic from China increased three ...
Tags: China, U.S., internet attacks, the first quarter of 2012
Years ago the typical hacking scenario involved a lone attacker and maybe some buddies working late at night on Mountain Dew, looking for public-facing IP addresses. When they found one, they enumerated the advertising services (Web server, ...
Google has moved a step closer to making good on its promise to support "Do Not Track" in Chrome by the end of this year. Chromium, Google's open-source project that feeds code into Chrome, released a build last week that includes the Do ...