Vulnerable Joomla! Installation under active attack
A Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8562) in the popular content management system (CMS) Joomla! was recently discovered. The vulnerability affects all versions of Joomla! prior to 3.4.6, and while updating the CMS to the latest version will patch the bug, there are still plenty of unpatched targets out there and Symantec has observed attackers […]
Facebook is once again putting the $41 billion computer network industry to shame
Facebook has produced yet another computer network innovation that will once again floor the $41 billion network techindustry. And Facebook will again share it with the world for free, putting commercial network tech vendors on notice. (We’re looking at you, Cisco). The new innovation, revealed on Tuesday, is something called Backpack and it’s a second-generation computer switch, […]
HTTP/2 Has Been Approved!
When the last version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.1 (HTTP/1.1) was approved in 1999, fast computers were running 500MHz Pentium III chips, Bill Clinton was president of the United States, and software engineers were working hard at fixing the Y2K bug. As for the internet, the US Federal Communications Commission defined broadband as 200 […]
How To Protect Your Server From The GHOST Vulnerability
Want to know more about GHOST Vulnerability? It is listed as a Critical issue and is officially known as CVE-2015-0235. It is a vulnerability located in the glibc library of most Linux systems and takes advantage of a condition called a “buffer overflow” and can allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a […]
Twitter Boostrap 3.3.2 Has Been Released
For those of you currently using Twitter Boostrap in your website, Bootstrap announced version 3.3.2 yesterday! The release is focused on bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and documentation updates. It includes over 300 commits from 19 contributors. Full details of the 3.3.2 release can be found on their blog post. Twitter Bootstrap is an HTML, CSS, […]
WordPress Under Attack, 100,000+ WP Websites Compromised By SoakSoak Malware
SoakSoak Malware Compromises 100,000+ WordPress Websites News of a malware campaign against WordPress has been doing the rounds since owners and webmaster of wordpress blogs found out about websites getting blacklisted by Google. Around 11,000 domains had been blocked due to the latest malware campaign which has now swelled to 100,000. This campaign has been […]
Microsoft To End Support For Windows 2003 Servers
Microsoft has announced that they will end support for Windows Server 2003 in July of 2015. All software products have a lifecycle. End of support refers to the date when Microsoft will no longer provide automatic fixes, updates, or online technical assistance.[2] (link is external) As of July 2014, there were 12 million physical servers […]
President Obama Proposes ‘Common Sense’ Rules For Net Neutrality
US President Barack Obama is putting pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to implement “the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality,” releasing a statement and video on Monday that urges the FCC to ensure that telecos or ISPs.
Report: Public Cloud Spending To Reach $127 Billion By 2018
The cloud market is growing six times faster than the overall IT market, according to a forecast released Monday by International Data Corporation (IDC). By 2018, public cloud services spending is expected to reach more than $127 billion, a growth rate of 22.8 percent over the $56.6 billion in spending this year.
PHP 5.5.0 Released!
PHP 5.5 has been released! Quite exciting stuff, and pretty great to see the pace of new releases. Props to the dev team! Hopefully distros pick this version up quickly as well, so we can start making use of these fancy new features. The highlights: Generators Immutable DateTime object Lists in foreach Finally keyword Class […]