Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
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Security researchers disclosed critical vulnerabilities in routers from Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei at the Defcon hackers conference on Sunday. The vulnerabilities -- a session hijack, a heap ...
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Despite vocal mistrust of e-voting, 151 Flemish municipalities in Belgium will use new electronic voting machines in October 14 elections. More than 60 percent of the country's Flemish citizens as well as voters in the Brussels region ...
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Adobe today issued a surprise update for Flash Player that patched 25 critical vulnerabilities in the ubiquitous media software. The California company urged Windows users to apply the update in the next 72 hours after rating the fix as ...
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Microsoft today announced it will deliver seven security updates, one critical, to patch 20 vulnerabilities in Office, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Windows and other parts of its product lineup. "It looks like an Office month," said ...
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MIT researchers have figured out a way to help developers more easily rearrange their image processing code so that it can execute faster and use fewer computational resources. Such a technique could prove especially beneficial for mobile ...
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Mozilla will drop support for Apple's OS X 10.5, or Leopard, after it ships Firefox 16 in October, according to company developers. "We are not planning to support Mac OS X 10.5 with Firefox 17," said Josh Aas, who works on the Firefox ...
Cloud-based security services provider Zscaler has released an implementation for Internet Explorer of the HTTPS Everywhere browser security extension. HTTPS Everywhere forces the browser to always connect over HTTPS(HTTP Secure)to ...
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Public cloud updated Sega's courier distribution to testers How a combination of public and private cloud helped Sega Cloud project yielded cost-control benefits for Sega Overcoming interoperability issues in private and public cloud The ...
Google yesterday patched 24 vulnerabilities in Chrome, and paid out $29,500 in bounties to nine researchers, more than half of that to one of the company’s most prolific bug finders. Chrome 22, which Google started pushing to ...
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Oracle is planning to deliver 88 security fixes next Tuesday for a wide range of its products, according to a pre-release announcement posted to its website on Thursday. A number of the bugs affect more than one product, and customers are ...
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Apple has quietly hired Kristin Paget, a former Microsoft security expert who worked as a hacker for the company to resolve Windows Vista vulnerabilities, to work on its Mac OS X security team. According to her LinkedIn profile, Paget ...
Hewlett-Packard released two beta versions of its open source webOS on Friday: one for developers that runs on the Ubuntu Linux desktop, and one for the "OpenEmbedded" development environment, intended to help developers port webOS to new ...
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The technique of using deception and manipulation to gain sufficient knowledge to dupe an unwary individual, employee or company into revealing personal information has the potential to be one of the biggest security threats in 2013 ...
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Mozilla this week suspended development of a 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows, citing add-on incompatibilities and low priority for the project. In a message posted to Bugzilla, the company’s bug- and change-tracking database, ...
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