Mozilla auto-upgrade will kill Firefox 3.6
Mozilla will give Firefox 3.6 the coup de grace next month by automatically upgrading users of that 2010 browser to Firefox 12. The move isn't a first for the open source developer: A year ago, it gave Firefox 3.5 the same auto-upgrade death blow.
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Researcher misinterprets Oracle advisory, discloses unpatched database vulnerability
Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and databases were published by a security researcher who erroneously thought that the company had patched the flaw. Oracle's April 2012 Critical Patch Update (CPU) advisory, published on April 17, credited security researcher Joxean Koret for a vulnerability he reported through cyber intelligence firm iSight Partners.
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Privacy advocates vow to continue CISPA fight
The battle over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is certain to heat up over the next few weeks, as the U.S. Senate begins debate on its versions of the controversial cybersecurity legislation. The U.S. House Thursday passed its CISPA bill in the face of a White House veto threat.
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Huawei aims to provide touch-free smartphones, tablets
Huawei Technologies is aiming to bring touch-free smartphones and more inexpensive cloud storage to users, as the company boosts its research and development spending in order to bring "disruptive" technologies that will alter the market landscape. "We are focused on disruptive technology and taking interesting ideas and turning them into something exciting," said John Roese, general manager for Huawei's North American research and develop center, on Friday.
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Evernote to offer idea- and note-capture tool for businesses
Evernote will launch a business program in the coming months, allowing administrators to better control security and data, company CEO Phil Libin said on Friday. Evernote is a popular multiplatform tool for organizing notes and photographs with the aim, the company said, to "remember everything" and allow users to quickly search through their uploaded documents. The company had 20 million users last December and is now close to breaking the 30 million mark, adding about 100,000 users a day, Libin said in an interview during the Next Web conference in Amsterdam.
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Live Mesh on its last legs as SkyDrive rises
Many people forget that Ray Ozzie was once Bill Gates' hand-chosen successor -- or at least, one of a very small group of people who appeared to have Gates' full confidence.
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5 tips for surviving a cloud outage
"Everything fails, all the time," so says Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels.
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Amazon outage one year later: Are we safer?
Amazon Web Services last April suffered what many consider to be the worst cloud service outage to date - an event that knocked big name customers such as Reddit, Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and others offline, some for as many as four days.
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AMD consolidating data centers with cloud, hardware upgrades
Advanced Micro Devices is cutting costs and reducing the number of its data centers worldwide with the help of the cloud and hardware upgrades, an AMD executive said Thursday. AMD will reduce the number of data centers it has to three by 2014, of which two will be in North America and one in Asia, said Farid Dana, director of IT services at AMD, in an interview. AMD currently has 12 data centers, down from 18 in mid-2009 when the consolidation effort began.
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IT engineers ponder fix to dangerous Internet routing problem
IT engineers are studying what may be an easier way to fix a long-existing weakness in the Internet's routing system that has the potential to cause major service outages and allow hackers to spy on data. The problem involves the routers used by every organization and company that owns a block of IP addresses. Those routers communicate constantly with other routers, updating their internal information -- often upwards of 400,000 entries -- on the best way to reach other networks using a protocol called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
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Ex-Sun boss McNealy sides with Oracle in Google dispute
Former Sun boss Scott McNealy sided with Oracle on Thursday in its dispute with Google over Android, testifying in court that companies needed a license to use Sun's Java programming interfaces. McNealy's testimony contrasted with that of Jonathan Schwartz, who became Sun's CEO after McNealy and was also on the stand Thursday. Schwartz emphasized Java's openness and testified that Sun never felt it had grounds to bring a lawsuit against Google.
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Study: iOS dominates Android four to one in the enterprise
Tablets and smartphones continue to make headway in the enterprise as companies have surrendered to -- if not embraced -- the BYOD (bring your own device) movemen
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House passes CISPA cyber threat sharing bill, despite privacy concerns
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a cyberthreat information-sharing bill that critics say will give U.S. government agencies access to the private communications of millions of Internet users.
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