Monthly Archives: December 2014

Hackers Gain Access to ICANN Network Through Compromised Employee Credentials

Hackers used a spear phishing attack to target Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) employees in late November. On Tuesday the organization announced that the compromised credentials were used to access other systems. This news comes just after the US government revealed on Tuesday how it authorizes changesā€¦ Continue reading

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Recent Microsoft Azure Outage Came Down to Human Error: Report

Microsoft offered more details this week about the cause of the Microsoft Azure outage in November that caused downtime for thousands of sites, including Microsoft’s own msn.com and Windows Store. Continue reading

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MongoDB Acquires WiredTiger and its Open Source Storage Engine

MongoDB has acquired WiredTiger, a company with database storage engine technology. WiredTiger will be integrated into MongoDB for performance, scalability, and hardware efficiency gains in the upcoming MongoDB 2.8. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Continue reading

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Libscore Launches to Help Developers Track Popularity of Open Source Code

Julian Shapiro, the developer of NameLayer, has launched his latest project, Libscore, which determines which JavaScript libraries are installed on the top one million sites, giving open source developers a way to track and measure the impact and popularity of their open source code. Continue reading

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Technology Community Backs Microsoft in Dublin Email Warrant Case

Over 80 technology and media companies including fierce competitor Apple, rallied to support Microsoft by signing supporting “friend of the court” briefs on Monday. Microsoft is fighting in a federal appeals court to prevent the US government from seizing customer emails hosted outside of the United States. “Collectively these briefsā€¦ Continue reading

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