Hackers have compromised two servers used by the FreeBSD Project to build third-party software packages.Anyone who has installed such packages since Sept.19 should completely reinstall their machines,the project's security team warned. ...
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Model and actress Lily Cole is to join the panel of judges for the Young Rewired State Competition, for budding young computer programmers. The competition aims to encourage young children and teenagers to team up and write their own ...
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on Monday by claiming it had stolen data from Symantec and ImageShack servers and had found a zero-day flaw in ZPanel. Fawkes was arrested over an alleged Nov. 5, 1605 botched ...
(Free-Press-Release.com) December 4, 2012 -- WATERFORD, Mich. and BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 4, 2012 – Kors Engineering, a premier service provider for manufacturing and industrial organizations and ISONAS Security Systems, Inc., the ...
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Network World-During Hurricane Sandy this fall,The Weather Channel experienced its highest traffic ever.Normally the media company--which spans television,desktop and mobile platforms--supports about 90 million Web and mobile users a ...
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UK security services have begun bridging the gap that has stopped open source software getting security clearance for use in government systems. The initiative has come too late to stop the first big contract wins delivered under the ...
A majority of the city council in Freiburg,Germany,has voted in favor of ditching the open source suite OpenOffice to return to Microsoft Office after severe problems and complaints from employees. The council voted 25 in favor and 20 ...
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Parliament's ICT office is concluding a two-year review of whether its democratic responsibilities and technical ambitions will force it to purge Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia technology from its computer systems. As part of a root ...
PC World-HP has long been a contributor to Linux and open-source software,but on Monday it ratcheted up its support another notch. Specifically,the company announced at the LinuxCon Europe event going on this week in Barcelona that it has ...
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After a lengthy and often heated consultation, the government has finally released its new open standards principles intended to level the supplier playing field and avoid product lock-in. But is the document a blueprint for a radically ...
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Whitehall has launched its long-awaited response to the open standards consultation, which will force government bodies to comply with its list of "Open Standards Principles" when purchasing technology. Departments must use the principles ...
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Open source services provider Sirius Corporation has provided a combination of OpenSource and proprietary software for Ysgol Maesydderwen school, near Swansea. Funded by Powys County Council, the Welsh school received installation of a ...
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Digia recently acquired the full Qt business from Nokia,Juhapekka Niemi,director,Digia,Qt,talks to Electronics Weekly about how the mobile software business will develop and grow in a market where open source has growing popularity. What ...
IDG News Service-Facebook is rethinking the way it stores data to cope with the seven petabytes of new photos the social network's users upload every month. As the number of photos grows,Facebook needs to find cheaper,less power-hungry ...
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It's been quite the all-star cast of companies joining the Linux Foundation over the past year or so, and next week will see the addition of another doozy. Following in the footsteps of Broadcom, Nvidia and Samsung -- all of which joined ...
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