We dodged a bullet last month -- the discovery of a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System, Dan Kaminsky told a standing-room only (and some sitting on the floor) crowd at the Black Hat Briefings Wednesday.
A cache of stolen data gathered from a botnet that has been quietly sweeping up information for years contained the user names and passwords for 8,485 bank accounts.
Plans to release its first open source software contribution for supercomputers among announcements.
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing and, as an evaluation edition, to subscribers of its Microsoft Development Network and TechNet services
AT&T has introduced a new hosted service that offers online storage, processing power and enterprise applications.
The Black Hat Briefings return to Caesars Palace this week with a new batch of hands-on security research for a crowd of 4,000 IT administrators, hackers, industry experts and government officials.
Microsoft's 10-K SEC report described open source software as a competitive threat to its licensed software model.
Red Hat, Novell and Canonical have joined forces with IBM on a plan to supply PC vendors with Linux-based software bundles.
IBM Corp. late last week touted the construction of two additional cloud computing datacenters -- an investment of $360 million -- which let it address what officials call "surging" demand for cloud computing resources.
Plus a slew of major tech announcements from IBM, HP and more expected at this week's conference.
Intelliun releases J2EE tools for implementing MDD.
A study finds most software vulnerabilities are reported by IBM, Microsoft and Apple, and Web apps are a leading point of attack.
Terracotta will soon be integrating Sun's new Java VisualVM technology with its management console.
Next week at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Joanna Rutkowska promises to demonstrate how a malicious attacker, working remotely, could take control of the open-source Xen virtualization software.
Both will be released under BSD license; source code coming later this year.
The company issued patches for its OS and server products to address Domain Name Server vulnerabilities.
A Microsoft exec describes the company's open source outreach efforts, which is starting to gain a pulse.
Reports are coming in that an AT&T Domain Name System (DNS) server may have been compromised with malicious code that exploits a vulnerability reported earlier this month. This apparently is the first instance of the exploit in the wild.
Sonatype's upcoming m2eclipse plugin becomes an Eclipse Technology Project.
The operating system is being developed in stealth mode, but some describe it as a new "non-Windows" OS.