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darthcamaro writes:
attackers aren't just going after governments they're also directly going after big IT vendors too.
In video interview, HP's top security exec, Art Gilliland, admitted that he has been that target of spearphishers that wrote customer malware specifically targeted to exploit him. Gilllaland is no chump though and no harm was done.
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darthcamaro writes:
Red Hat has a history of acquiring key technology partners to help build out its portfolio. In 2011, Red Hat acquired Gluster, which now forms the basis of Red Hat Storage — in 2014 is a Hadoop vendor like Hortonworks in the cards like Hortonworks?
The answer is likely not.."Many enterprises want to run Hadoop on Red Hat’s infrastructure and application platform, but not all customers want to use the same Hadoop distribution," Ranga Rangachari, Red Hat's vice president and general manager, Storage and Big Data said.
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darthcamaro writes:
Though Microsoft hasn't yet patched its Internet Explorer web browser in 2014, it did patch IE at least once every month in 2013. According to HP's 2013 Cyber Risk Report, more researchers tried to sell IE vulnerabilities than any other product vulnerability"These are the users that adversaries are going after; they tend to more likely be in business environments," Jacob West, CTO of HP's Enterprise Security Group said. "IE is the most prevalent browser on the systems that attackers want to compromise."
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darthcamaro writes:
The annual Pwn2own hacking competition has always made short work of all browser vendors' security, shredding perception of safety by hacking IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome in minutes. This year the competition is adding a twist — for IE on Windows 8.1, hackers will also have to bypass Microsoft EMET, which is a seemingly bulletproof type of sandbox. The competition is calling this the 'Unicorn Exploit' and the first researcher to successful exploit it will pocket $150,000.
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darthcamaro writes:
Marc Andreessen knows a thing or two about spotting Internet trends, after all he did invent the modern browser industry and is a leading venture capitalist today. At the Open Compute Summit this week, Andreessen also let it be known that he's backing ARM in the data center, which is just now getting a 64bit chip from AMD. Intel apparently isn't impressed."Every large scale Internet service that I'm aware is bound by the cost of the data center and they are all I/O bound," Andreessen said. "We deal with very few Internet applications at scale that are CPU bound."
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darthcamaro writes:
Research firm Gartner has literally made a business out of determining the hype cycle of technology trends. As it stands, a leading Gartner analyst has pegged Bitcoin as being at the pinnacle of hype.
"Bitcoin is a massively overhyped piece of noise in the marketplace in and of itself, " David Furlonger, vice president and Fellow at research firm Gartner said.
That said, Gartner is recommending that retailers pay attention to Bitcoin, because if a consumer want to use Bitcoin for payment and can't, they'll just go somewhere else, and the retailer will lose the business.
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darthcamaro writes:
We all there have been a lot of Java exploits over the course of the last year — but a new report from Cisco paints a very grim picture. Cisco found that Java was the primary Indicator of Compromise in 91 percent of all attacks it observed in 2013.
Oh and don't think it's just about patching (btw did you patch yet to Java 7u51 that came out on Tuesday? do it now); as there multiple zero days for Java in 2013 that were exploited too.
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darthcamaro writes:
What follows in the footsteps of a Heisenbug, Spherical Cow and a Beefy Miracle? Apparently the answer is 'null' as is nothing. Fedora Linux 21 could well have no funky new name as its past predecessors have all had, thanks to a recent vote by the Fedora board to move away from the existing naming practices. Fedora 21 itself will not be out in the first half of 2014 either, instead the plan is now for a release sometime around August. A delayed release however doesn't mean somethign is wrong, it actually could mean that something is very right, and Red Hat's community Linux distro aims to re-invent itself.
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darthcamaro writes:
Mozilla's Firefox web browser isn't just for computers running Windows, Mac or LInux anymore. Soon you can get a whole TV powered by Firefox OS. That's the big Mozilla news out of the CES 2014 show as the open source browser vendor announced new efforts to bring Firefox OS to TVs, tablets and even desktops. Why is Firefox OS gaining traction? It's all about open standards and HTML5 according to Panasonic.
"We share a mutual vision—that is, we want to support an open and independent platform based on HTML 5—and we found that the Mozilla Firefox OS platform is the ideal way for us to accomplish that vision,"Merwan Mereby, Panasonic's U.S. vice president of the Interactive Content and Services Group said.
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darthcamaro writes:
An anonymous reader writes "Mark Shuttleworth tried to raise $32 million to fund a new linux smartphone project — and that failed — but will he try and again? And will he try to build an UbuntuBook/Chromebook clone? or Maybe Ubuntu Glass. In a new video interview, Ubuntu's big daddy doesn't say yes, but he doesn't say no either"
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darthcamaro writes:
If you're a Bitcoin holder you might not want to read this story, the value of Bitcoin dropped by 50 percent overnight as major exchanges including Mt. Gox have reacted to a decision out of China announced by BTC China. The TL;dr version is that it's not longer possible in China to buy Bitcoin with Chinese currency which is creating a crisis of confidence and possible liquidity as well. Is this the end of Bitcoin as we know it? Or is it just a market correction?
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darthcamaro writes:
It was just a few short weeks ago that Docker 0.7 was released. While there are some people that don't see Docker as the future of virtualization, Red Hat isn't one of them. In fact, in a video interview, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens reveals that Docker is likely to be a key part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Stevens also confirms what many have suspected for some time — namely that RHEL 7 will be released by April of 2013.
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darthcamaro writes:
Red Hat is out with the latest release of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 distribution, packing in new virtualization, security and performance features. The new release includes support for virtual CPU hot swapping, Precision Time Protocol and for the first time, limited support for the new hotness that
is Docker containers."Red Hat and Docker have jointly collaborated to ensure that Docker images can be run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, but customers should refer to Docker for supported versions," Siddharth Nagar, principal product manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, told eWEEK. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 now includes the necessary support in the operating system for Docker; however, users will need additional software directly from Docker to manage and manipulate images." — f
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darthcamaro writes:
The cold war is over but a new war amongst the superpowers is already in full swing. A former NCIS and NATO commander is set to detail evidence at the upcoming Black Hat Brazil event that indicated that World War C (cyber) has already begun."It seems to me that you had better be hacking in peacetime to get ready for war," Geers said.
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darthcamaro writes:
OpenStack is only three years old, but what an astounding three years it has been. The open source cloud effort now has the support of nearly every major IT vendor on the planet, including IBM, HP, Cisco, Dell, Red Hat, SUSE, AT&T and many other — and it's also making piles of cash too. According to a new report, the OpenStack market is worth $600 million in revenues in 2013 and is on track to pass $1 billion in the next two years.
