Server, heal thyself

Microsoft will be launching its SQL Server 2012 database in 2012 which includes the latest business-intelligence SKU along with core-based licensing. To be launched during the first few months of 2012, the SQL Server...

GlobalSign, another web authentication agency which recently found itself at the receiving end of a security breach, has admitted that it uncovered evidences of one of its servers being hacked by unknown perpetrators. The company...

Moves are afoot in The Land Of The Free which could see owners of UK web sites extradited to the US if they are accused of piracy. The US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is setting its sights on UK-based sites...

The world's first ever 'archaeological dig' of the internet is set to begin this week in London's über-trendy Shoreditch. The exhibition, entitled Digital Archaeology, kicks off today to mark the 20th anniversary of the...

Virtualisation is almost certainly on the agenda for your IT resource, but what are the main problems that IT professionals come up against when implementing a virtual environment? It's clear that, with budgets remaining tight...

This morning, I walked out of Starbucks because I was in a queue of 10 other people, with just one person was serving. Although it was a pain to go somewhere else, I’d rather spend my time and money where the service is...

Research In Motion (RIM) has notified details of a serious vulnerability in its BlackBerry Attachment Service that could enable hackers seize control over BlackBerry Enterprise Server and execute codes remotely.  In a...

As anticipated, Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new iteration of its Window Server operating system intended to small and medium-sized businesses having not more than 15 users.  The new version, dubbed as “Windows...

Ravi Maira, Marketing Director at Akamai Technologies and Ben Chai of Incomingthought.com, discusse Worldwide online security and how Akamai deals with securing transactions online for the likes of Bestbuy, Amazon, Boots and...

Multiple vendors' web browsers are prone a cross-site scripting vulnerability that arises because the software fails to handle specially crafted files served using the FTP protocol.Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an...

In its latest Malicious Page of the Month report, Finjan reveals the commercialization of stolen FTP server credentials, owned by legitimate companies, by hackers who are using the NeoSploit Crimeware toolkit.Finjan Inc announced...

The latest Web server survey (for January 2008) carried out by Netcraft showed that Apache has managed to move above the 50 percent share of the web server market, it's lowest point for nearly a decade. Microsoft has enjoyed a...

Monster.com, the job-seekers' Web site, had part of its site taken offline yesterday after the company realised that some of its pages were being used to infect visitors with a multi-exploit attack kit.Unconfirmed reports suggest...

US recruitment firm Monster.com has been hit by an attack that has compromised over 1.6 million pieces of information, including personal data. The attack follows warnings that recruitment sites are a rich target for identity...

Booking.com, Europe's largest online hotel reservation site, has selected the MySQL open source database to process tens of thousands of online bookings every day for over 30,000 hotels in 8,000 destinations worldwide. The...