Adobe patches critical flaws in Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player and Illustrator
Adobe Systems released critical security updates for several products Tuesday in order to fix vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take remote control of systems running the vulnerable...
View ArticleMicrosoft's .NET Framework security updates further effort to phase out RC4...
Microsoft released optional security updates Tuesday for various versions of the .NET Framework that prevent the RC4 encryption algorithm from being used in TLS (Transport Layer Security)...
View ArticleAmazon brings cloud monitoring tool to Europe
Amazon Web Services' monitoring tool CloudTrail is now available from the company's EU region in Ireland, allowing all data to remain in Europe.CloudTrail is a Web service that records API calls and...
View ArticleSilverlight malvertising exploits on the rise
Microsoft Silverlight vulnerabilities are increasingly being exploited in drive-by download attacks to infect computers with malware, especially through malicious ads.Attackers have been adding...
View ArticleSilly rabbit, there's no such thing as DevOps in a box
Yesterday out in Boulder, Colorado, I hosted the first Camp DevOps held in partnership with Glue Conference 2014 (Glue is today if you are in the Denver/Boulder area). It was a great conference with a...
View ArticleSafari 6.1.4 and 7.0.4 address critical flaws, iOS patches missing
Apple released new versions of Safari for Mac OS X to fix critical vulnerabilities that could allow Web attackers to execute malicious code on computers. Patches are not yet available for Apple's iOS...
View ArticleMicrosoft will patch IE zero day but doesn't give timeline
Microsoft said Thursday it plans eventually to patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 that it's known about for seven months, but it didn't say when.A security research group within...
View ArticleOutage caused by single admin mortifies cloud provider Joyent
Cloud provider Joyent suffered an outage on Tuesday after an administrator was able to simultaneously reboot all virtual servers hosted in the company's US-East-1 data center."It should go without...
View ArticleNew attack methods can 'brick' systems, defeat Secure Boot, researchers say
The Secure Boot security mechanism of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) can be bypassed on around half of computers that have the feature enabled in order to install bootkits, according...
View ArticleIsrael-based software company claims police call recording software fixed
Nice Systems of Israel said it patched remaining critical flaws in its call recording software used by law enforcement, but the consultancy that discovered the risky flaws hasn't verified the fixes.The...
View ArticleDoes the data center need an OS?
One of latest companies to get a cash infusion from famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is Mesosphere, a startup that is essentially attempting to build an operating system...
View ArticleGood steps up mobile security push with Fixmo acquisition, new tools
Mobile device management company Good Technology is stepping up its efforts to attract organizations that want to leave BlackBerry behind by acquiring assets from Fixmo and launching a new secure...
View ArticleISC: Cray makes Lustre palatable for storage administrators
Supercomputer vendor Cray is trying to make the Lustre file system easier to work with, allowing users to copy material from the file system into a multilayered storage archiving system.Cray has...
View ArticleMMS: Back to the Basics?
A long, long time ago, there was an event, usually held in Las Vegas, called the SMS User Conference. (For a full history of MMS, see Rod Trent's article at...
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11 offbeat battery chargers: Portable power with a twist
If you carry a smartphone or a tablet around with you (and if you're reading this, you probably do), you know that there's a good chance you're going to run out of power before it's time for bed....
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Avoid a tech catastrophe and step away from the button
"Image by Gunnar PippelAdmit it: We can't keep our hands off tech and gizmos, even when we know better. We give in to the irresistible urge to see what happens if a button is pushed or innocently...
View ArticleThe Internet's not broken...It's SysAdmin Day!
I'm not entirely sure I want to encourage this sort of YouTube behavior, but in honor of the 15th annual SysAdmin Day, here's the new karaoke version of Spiceworks' SysAdmin Day Song for you to sing...
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10 cool makerspaces to explore now
Ready, set, DIY! Makerspaces have recently exploded in popularity as artisans, techies and the just plain curious seek out communal access to materials and tools they're unlikely to have at home --...
View ArticleCelebrating SysAdmin Day on Instagram
The world celebrates the 15th Annual SysAdmin Day on a social network that wasn't around at the start of this last Friday of July event. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please...
View ArticleSplunk digs deeper with Stream app for network monitoring
Splunk’s new App for Stream will give IT departments more insight into their infrastructures by collecting network traffic on response times, network performance and database queries.The goal with App...
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