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Oracle announced the availability of the Release Candidate for MySQL 5.6, the popular open source database. MySQL 5.6 RC provides enhanced linear scalability, helping users to …

Remember Mozilla’s introduction of the BrowserID browser-based system for identifying and authenticating users? Well, the login system that was created a …

OpenStack Folsom, the sixth release of the open source cloud computing platform, saw a 65 percent increase in contributors, as well as the addition of Networking and Block …

ScaleXtreme released free open source software for companies to build internal cloud dashboards and self-service portals for developers and other end-users. The technology …

A malicious version of the open source Web-based MySQL database administration tool phpMyAdmin has been discovered on one of the official mirror sites of SourceForge, the …

SUSE released SUSE Manager 1.7 of its systems management solution for enterprise Linux environments. SUSE Manager’s capabilities help enterprises to comprehensively …

(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 35 has been released today. Table of contents: …

Denim Group announced ThreadFix, an open source, freely-available vulnerability management platform that accelerates the process of resolving application-level …

Nikto is an open source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, …

With the addition of linear scalability to 64 cores, index-only scans and reductions in CPU power consumption, PostgreSQL 9.2 has improved scalability and developer …

Microsoft’s decision to make Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 have the “Do Not Track” (DNT) option turned on by default has stirred a heated discussion …

An increasing number of advanced users are drawn to open source solutions as an alternative to Microsoft Windows. The popular free Linux distribution Fedora and it's big …