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GHOST Vulnerability Poses Threat to Most Linux Systems
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Cloud security and compliance company Qualys discovered a high severity vulnerability in the Linux GNU C Library (or "glibc") that could allow attackers to remotely execute code and gain control of Linux systems.
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Dropbox Buys Creative Collaboration Startup Pixelapse
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Cloud storage provider Dropbox has bought Pixelapse, a startup that provides version control and collaboration workflow for design projects that it calls "the definitive version control and collaboration platform for creatives". Read More...
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Super Bowl Ad Featuring Adorable Puppy Puts Go Daddy in the Doghouse
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Animal lovers are not having any of Go Daddy's Super Bowl commercial that features an adorable Golden Retriever puppy named Buddy, but the company assures it supports the humane adoption of animals. ...
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WikiLeaks Wants Answers After Google Handed Over Staff Emails to US DOJ
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Lawyers for defendants in the WikiLeaks espionage case sent an open letter to Google on Monday demanding answers after Google informed three WikiLeaks staff on Friday that their information had been handed to the US Department of Justice to comply...
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CloudBees Snags $23.5M in Series D Funding to Meet Growing Demand for Jenkins
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
CloudBees announced a $23.5 million financing round on Tuesday. The company plans to use the funding to continue the growth it has experienced "from demand for its continuous delivery solutions based on Jenkins CI, the leading open source...
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Lenovo Launches Partner Program for Cloud and Managed Service Providers
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Lenovo has launched a new partner program on Tuesday for cloud and managed service providers. The program is the result of the transition of the IBM System x server business to Lenovo. ...
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South African .ZA Domains to Cost 30 Percent More Starting in March: Report
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
The price of registering and renewing .za domains will jump on by approximately 30 percent on Mar. 1, 2015. ZA Central Registry (ZACR), which administers the .co.za, .net.za, .org.za and .web.za and other TLDs has informed domain registrars of the...
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Microsoft's Internal Nebula Cloud Uses New Cloud Platform System
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Microsoft is using its new Cloud Platform System (or "CPS") as the engine of its own internal private Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud known as Nebula, according to a blog post late last week by Microsoft's Russ Wilson. Read More...
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Weekend Issue with Twitter Link Shorteners Connected to .CO Domain: Report
Monday, January 26, 2015
Over the weekend an issue with the .CO domain extension caused problems for Twitter's URL shorteners t.co and vine.co.
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CloudLinux Releases Software for Web Hosts to Set Limits on Accounts Running MySQL
Monday, January 26, 2015
Shared hosting operating system developer CloudLinux released its DB Governor software for web hosts on Monday. The software, which the company has been developing for three years, allows hosts to set limits for individual accounts running MySQL....