SCALE 11x Conference Details
Feb 15, 2013The SCALE 11x conference is rapidly approaching. This year’s event will be held February 22-24, 2013 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel.
more »Pwn2Own and Pwnium 3 Details Announced – Competitions Offer Big Bucks for Hacking Skills
Jan 31, 2013HP’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) announces details for the annual Pwn2Own competition.
more »Civic Hacking Day Announced
Jan 25, 2013National Day of Civic Hacking events are being planned across the USA.
more »Tech Tools
Jan 23, 2013- NVidia gaming device
- Qt 5.0 Released
- Oracle NoSQL DB 2.0
- SuperSpeed USB 3.0
Linux News
Jan 23, 2013Samba 4.0
- FTC ends Google investigation
- Samba implements Windows AD
- News Bites
Linux Phones
- Ubuntu launches a new phone OS
- Samsung announces Tizen phone
- Perl turns 25
Big Data DB
- vert.x project leader
- Apache Cassandra v1.2 released
- HPC app contest
Table of Contents: 148 What's inside the March 2013 issue
Jan 23, 2013Science fiction authors and high-tech visionaries dream of a future where humans and computers communicate in ordinary English. A new cloud-based tool brings that future a little closer.
more »Linux New Media Awards 2012: Choose Your Favorite Open Source Presentation Software
Dec 14, 2012The Linux New Media Awards are back! Organized by the publisher of Linux Magazine and Linux Pro Magazine, these awards honor projects, organizations, people, and companies for their outstanding contributions to the Linux/FLOSS community.
more »Open Source Forum at CeBIT - Call for Papers
Nov 28, 2012With its move into Hall 6, CeBIT is now allocating even more space to the Open Source Area in 2013. The Open Source Forum, together with the Open Source Park making up this themed area on CeBIT, will benefit from the move as well.
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Issue 172/2015
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News
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Old Vulnerabilities Are Kept Alive Through Bad Configuration
HP's annual Cyber Risk report offers a bleak look at the state of IT.
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Linus Torvalds Announces Linux 4.0
But what do the big numbers really mean?
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Microsoft Frees CoreCLR
.NET Core execution engine is the basis for cross-platform .NET implementations.
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New Trojan Attacks Linux Servers
The Xnote trojan hides itself on the target system and will launch a variety of attacks on command.
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Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
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Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
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Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
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Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
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TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
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Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.