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Shellshock! Flaw leaves OS X, Linux, more open to attack
Well, this isn't good. Akamai security researcher Stephane Chazelas has discovered a devastating flaw in the Unix Bash shell, leaving Linux machines, OS X machines, routers, older IoT devices, and more vulnerable to attack. "Shellshock," as it's been dubbed, allows attackers to run code on your machine after exploiting the flaw, but the true danger here lies in just how old Shell Shock is—this vulnerability has apparently been lurking in the Bash shell for years. Read More
WHITE PAPER: Ixia
Overcoming Visibility Deficits in Virtualized Environments
With up to 80% of data center traffic traveling between virtualized servers, end-to-end visibility is a major concern. This paper provides an overview of virtualized data center blind spots and offers a solution to overcome them. View now
WHITE PAPER: Symantec
Archiving benefits more than just email
Many organizations assume archiving is mostly related to email and compliance; however, archiving is associated with a wide range of business improvements. This ESG paper covers the real reasons companies archive, as well as the business value that can be achieved through archiving. Learn moire
Web developer has a dirty little secret
I could say that a co-worker pointed me to this one – and in this case that would be true – but the fact is that I quite often read Dear Prudence on Salon. Not very often, however, does the advice column have an IT angle. Dear Prudence,I am a freelance Web developer who was almost bankrupted by the economic collapse. A few years ago a client referred me to a friend who needed some search engine optimization. The friend operates an adult website. Adult websites make a lot of money but have trouble finding honest, competent help. One job turned into another, and working with adult websites has become a thriving business for me. My problem is that nobody knows I do this. My wife thinks that I design websites for local companies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
8 cutting-edge technologies aimed at eliminating passwords
From electronic pills to digital tattoos, these eight innovations aim to secure systems and identities without us having to remember a password ever again Read More
Comcast's latest comments on TWC merger show near-total divorce from reality
The largest broadband provider in America's attempt to merge with the second-largest is a win for consumers, and will create a vibrant marketplace with more competition, not less - according, at least, to the largest broadband provider in America. The public statement accompanying Comcast's official response to the FCC, after the latest comment period on the proposed merger with TWC, is a classic piece of corporate doublespeak. +ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD South Korea's gigabit broadband woes should serve as object lesson for FCC regulators | Microsoft, frustrated as ever with H-1B policy, considers options +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Why Amazon is rebooting 10% of its cloud servers
Amazon Web Services issued a blog post on Thursday providing some more details of why the company needs to reboot up to 10% of its cloud servers in the coming days, and it doesn't have anything to do with the so-called Shellshock vulnerability.+ MORE DETAILS NETWORK WORLD: Amazon readies major cloud server reboot +Amazon says that about Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers from across the globe will be impacted by what it calls a "timely security and operational update" related to its open source Xen hypervisor. The blog post explains:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Worst Product Ever: Fujitsu ScanSnap iX100
In the course of my 13+ years of writing the Cool Tools column, I've run across many good products (hence the title of the column), several average products and only a few products that were not-yet-ready-for-public-consumption. This is one of those rare moments - get ready for some vitriol.The scoop: ScanSnap iX100 wireless scanner, by Fujitsu, about $230.What is it? This color image scanner is about the size of my forearm, smaller than a baseball bat, which reminds me, I should take a baseball bat and start pounding this thing to shreds. In a Utopian world where nothing ever goes wrong, the device lets you scan photos and documents quickly, and sends those scanned digital documents to either your computer or mobile device. You can connect the scanner to a computer via USB cable, or you can attempt to configure Wi-Fi with the unit (either through a Wi-Fi router or the-even-more-sadistic Wi-Fi Direct) so that your scans can be sent wirelessly to the computer or your phone/tablet. The device also includes software that aims to make your document-centric life a little bit more sane, such as a receipt application ("Scan those receipts so we can pay your expense report on time!", a business card manager ("Hey, I know you ignore those business cards but at least now you might be able to ignore them in your Outlook rather than dumping the cards into a desk drawer") and a program that converts scanned documents into editable text formats (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
What is Ello? A social network with a terrible business plan
This is why you've been hearing so much about Ello, and why you might not hear much of it in the future. Read More
iPhone 6: The phone for people who can't do math
How you can get a smartphone, a tablet, and a smartwatch all for the price of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus. Read More
Cloud will be key for Oracle at OpenWorld
The vendor's massive annual conference gets underway Sunday Read More
Harvard researchers take aim at Shellshock-like woes with new scripting language
While administrators scramble to fix the newly discovered Shellshock vulnerability, Harvard University researchers are putting the finishing touches on a scripting language built to mitigate the damage caused by such holes.The language, called Shill, was designed to limit shell-based scripts so they can't access resources beyond what is specifically needed for the task at hand."You want to give the script exactly the permissions it needs to get its job done," said Scott Moore, a computer science doctoral student at Harvard who is one of the contributors to the Shill research project, led by Stephen Chong, an associate professor of computer science.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
FAA lets movie and TV groups operate drones in national airspace, what could go wrong?
I am all for realism in movies but this might be a little precarious. The Federal Aviation Administration has granted regulatory exemptions to six aerial photo and video production companies, the first step to allowing the film and television industry the use of unmanned aircraft in the National Airspace System. The firms asked the agency to grant exemptions from regulations that address general flight rules, pilot certificate requirements, manuals, maintenance and equipment mandates. To receive the exemptions, the firms had to show their UAS operations would not adversely affect safety, or would provide at least an equal level of safety to the rules from which they seek the exemptions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Apple will consume 25% of all DRAM in the world next year
Apple's consumption of mobile DRAM will grow from 16.5% of the industry's total production volume today to 25% in 2015 as the company outfits more smartphones, tablets and even laptops with DRAM, according to a new report.Since 2011, Apple has been the biggest consumer of NAND flash, according to IDC Research. Its iPod and iPhone are generally considered responsible for increasing the use -- and lowering the overall price -- of NAND, making it a more viable storage medium for other products, such as solid-state drives (SSDs).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Chambers again dashes EMC speculation
As he has done several times before, Cisco CEO John Chambers dismissed speculation that his company may acquire storage giant EMC. Reports surfaced this week that EMC was shopping itself around as a candidate for a "merger of equals," and had talked to HP and Dell about possible linkups.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Amazon readies major cloud server reboot
Amazon Web Services will be updating a substantial number of its cloud servers, and has asked customers to re-launch their instances in the coming days, according to AWS consultants; Xen hypervisor security bug could be to blame. Read More
The FBI's big, bad identification system
The FBI's formidable Next Generation Identification is up and running Read More
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