New book: “Practical Programming”
In Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python, the team of Jennifer Campbell, Paul Gries, Jason Montojo, and Greg Wilson present a new approach to …
Network Solutions: 573,928 credit card accounts accessed
Network Solutions identified unauthorized code on servers supporting some of their e-commerce merchants’ websites. The code has been removed and no servers supporting …
44% of US SMBs infected by Internet threats
Panda Security announced its worldwide barometer on the status of security at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). According to the study, which surveyed 5,760 companies …
Wi-Fi Certified 802.11n program tests will not change for September update
The Wi-Fi Alliance will not change the baseline requirements of its 802.11n certification program, and plans to make only small optional additions to coincide with the …
Ruby on Rails 2.3.3: Touching, faster JSON, bug fixes
Ruby on Rails version 2.3.3 fixes a lot of bugs and introduces a handful of new features. Active Record touch is a convenient method to update a record’s timestamp and …
RainbowCrack 1.4 released
RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique. It cracks hashes with rainbow tables. This version focus …
Joomla 1.5.13 security release now available
Joomla 1.5.13 is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately. One low-level and two moderate-level security issues were fixed in this release. …
Rackspace Cloud APIs now open source
Rackspace has open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Developers are now free to copy, …
Admin gets prison time for hacking former employer’s network
The former director of information technology for a non-profit organ and tissue donation center was sentenced to two years in prison for hacking into her former …
Sourcefire and Qualys deliver real-time risk analysis
Sourcefire and Qualys announced that Sourcefire has become a Qualys Solution Partner and the companies have integrated the Sourcefire 3D System with QualysGuard. The …
RSA SecurID software token for iPhone
RSA released the RSA SecurID Software Token for iPhone Devices that enables an iPhone to be used as an RSA SecurID authenticator, providing convenient and cost-effective …
Social networking sites must improve security
Sophos has called upon social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook to do more to protect their millions of users, as new research is published examining the first …
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