Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and others file amicus brief in support of NSO lawsuit

Tech giants show support for Facebook's legal case against spyware vendor NSO Group. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Why Red Hat Dumped CentOS for CentOS Stream

No, it wasn't IBM calling the shots. This decision was made inside Red Hat for business reasons and it had been a long time coming. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

A Microsoft executive accidentally exposed one of the ugly truths of tech

One of the great dangers in tech lies in believing you're a special kind of clever. A Microsoft executive's innocent comment led to some stark revelations about how some people in tech really think. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Where Fedora Fits in the New Red Hat/CentOS Stream Linux World

With CentOS Stream now "tracking ahead" of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where exactly does that leave Fedora, Red Hat's community Linux distro, and long-time RHEL test release? | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Firefox to ship 'network partitioning' as a new anti-tracking defense

Firefox's "network partitioning" feature to ship in v85, scheduled for January 2021. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla Ban Kazakhstan's MitM HTTPS Certificate

This marks the second time browsers makers had to intervene and block a certificate used by the Kazakhstan government to spy on its citizens. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft is designing its own Arm chips for datacenter servers

We already knew Microsoft was working to bring Arm-powered servers for internal use to its cloud datacenters. But what and when will this mean anything to its customers? | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Google faces third antitrust lawsuit for allegedly manipulating searches

Filed by a bipartisan group of 38 attorneys-general. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft confirms it was also breached in recent SolarWinds supply chain hack

Microsoft denies that hackers pivoted to production systems and abused its software to attack customers. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

FBI and Interpol disrupt Joker's Stash, the internet's largest carding market

Four threat intel firms, Digital Shadows, Intel 471, Gemini Advisory, and Kela, said the disruption was temporary. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

VMware: Remote work advances environmental, diversity, inclusion goals

Virtual and augmented reality may be critical to advancing the new normal of work and collaboration. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollar a year into CentOS clone

With Red Hat changing CentOS Linux into a rolling release, CloudLinux is the second group to announce it's making a bigger, better stable point CentOS: Lenix. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Vista Equity Partners acquires Pluralsight for $3.5B

Pluralsight software is used by roughly 70% of Fortune 500 companies. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

PgMiner botnet attacks weakly secured PostgreSQL databases

Only PostgreSQL databases running on Linux servers have been attacked so far. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Former Cisco engineer sentenced to prison for deleting 16k Webex accounts

Former Cisco engineer accessed Cisco's AWS accounts, and deleted 456 virtual machines, which resulted in the loss of 16k Webex accounts | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Goodbye CentOS, Hello Rocky Linux

Red Hat is transforming CentOS into a DevOps-friendly, leading-edge rolling release. Many people liked it just the way it was. Now, CentOS's founder is working on giving them what they want. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Endangered Firefox, the State of Mozilla

Firefox web browser share keeps going down, while The Mozilla Foundation continues to make staff cuts and gives up its Mountain View California offices. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Researchers warn of security vulnerabilities in point-of-sale terminals

Security researchers disclose vulnerabilities including default passwords in two of the largest PoS manufacturers in the world. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Facebook doxes APT32, links Vietnam's primary hacking group to local IT firm

Facebook suspends accounts linked to APT32, says the group used its platform to spread malware. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website's CSS

Previously, security researchers found web skimmers (Magecart scripts) inside favicons, site logos, live chat windows, and, most recently, in social media sharing buttons. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

EU agency in charge of Covid-19 vaccine approval says it was hacked

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) says it's investigating a recent cyber-attack. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Amnesia: Vulnerabilities impact millions of smart and industrial devices

Security researchers have identified 33 security flaws in four open-source TCP/IP stacks used across a wide range of smart products. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Hacker opens 2732 PickPoint package lockers across Moscow

PickPoint says this is the world's first targeted cyberattack against a post-gateway network. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft TypeScript leaps ahead of C#, PHP and C++ on GitHub

New figures show Microsoft's TypeScript has rapidly become an essential programming language for web developers. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

We need more broadband internet than ever with Covid keeping us at home

With work on the kitchen table, online classes in the kid's bedroom, and streaming TV, we need more, better and affordable broadband than ever before. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Hackers leak data from Embraer, third-largest airplane maker

The Brazilian company was the victim of a ransomware attack last month, in November. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Kazakhstan government is intercepting HTTPS traffic in its capital (again)

This marks the third time since 2015 that the Kazakh government is mandating the installation of a root certificate on its citizens' devices. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Ransomware gangs are now cold-calling victims if they restore without paying

Tactic used since August by ransomware gangs like Sekhmet, Maze, Conti, and Ryuk. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal

Chill, people. Your Docker skills haven't suddenly become useless. Here's what's really going on. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Intel, partners make new strides in Loihi neuromorphic computing development

Lenovo and Mercedes-Benz have also signed up as new members in the INRC neuromorphic community project. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Surveillance Bill to hand AFP and ACIC a trio of new computer warrants

Refusal to assist authorities could land people with 10 years in jail. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Open-source: Almost one in five bugs are planted for malicious purposes

Backdoors and 'bugdoors' might be hard to spot but they put open-source security at risk. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Data of 243M Brazilians exposed online via website source code

The password to access a highly sensitive Ministry of Health database was stored inside a government site's source code. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Should Red Hat be afraid of SUSE's Rancher acquisition?

SUSE wants Red Hat and the rest of the Kubernetes world to know, that it means to be a container orchestration power. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

AWS: Containers, serverless, and cloud-native computing oh my

In a flood of announcements, AWS is going all the way -- with Lambda, micro-services, and containers -- in its vision of the public cloud. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Linux Foundation's entry-level IT administrator certification is open

The Linux Foundation's first certification for entry-level system classes is ready to help you get started on your modern-day IT job hunt. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Monte Carlo launches Data Observability Platform, aims to solve for bad data

Monte Carlo uses machine learning to do for data what application performance management did for software uptime. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

AWS engineer puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple Mac M1 – thrashes Surface Pro X

A virtualized Windows 10 on Arm runs faster on Apple's M1 hardware than on Microsoft's own Arm-based Surface Pro X. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

RISC-V is starting to produce technological breakthroughs

RISC-V, the open standard for chip instructions, is leading to some impressive technical innovation, one of its creators says. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Paying money to make Google Chrome faster and use less RAM

Yes, I'm actually at the point of paying money to make Google Chrome more tolerable in terms of RAM usage and performance. And so far, it's working out well. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise to Move Hq from San Jose to Houston Texas

Hewlett’s forecast for profit for the year ahead also topped expectations. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

FCC chairman Ajit Pai out, net neutrality back in

Opinion: As expected, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, who destroyed net neutrality, is leaving office. He leaves behind a legacy of higher internet prices and broken net neutrality. Things can only get better for the internet from here. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Oracle secures Australian whole-of-government deal

The arrangement is part of a growing list of similar deals the Digital Transformation Agency has inked with other major tech providers, such as Amazon Web services and IBM. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Personal data of 16M Brazilian Covid-19 patients exposed online

Among those affected by the leak are Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, seven ministers, and 17 provincial governors. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Amazon: We're hiring software engineers who know programming language Rust

Open-source programming language Rust is a critical component of our long-term strategy, says AWS. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

2FA bypass discovered in web hosting software cPanel

More than 70 million sites are managed via cPanel software, according to the company. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Linus Torvalds would like to use an M1 Mac for Linux

Yes, Torvalds said he'd love to have one of the new M1-powered Apple laptops, but it won't run Linux and, in an exclusive interview he explains why getting Linux to run well on it isn't worth the trouble. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

The ins and outs of Starlink: Internet from the sky

A recent Reddit ask-me-anything revealed more about the increasingly popular Starlink near-Earth orbit internet provider service. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago