by Joseph Forbes | Mar 26, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the trying-a-different-flavor dept. This should make VMware nervous. PayPal and eBay are yanking VMware software from some 80,000 servers and replacing it with OpenStack. Initially, PayPal is replacing VMware on about 10,000 computer servers. Those servers will...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 26, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, LAW, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the boy-this-slope-sure-feels-slippery dept. “The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic headed into and out of defense contractors to include far more of the country’s private, civilian-run infrastructure. As...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 25, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, MONEY, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the and-they’ll-pass-the-spendings-on-to-you dept. PayPal, Google Wallet and other online payment systems face higher transaction fees from MasterCard in retaliation for their refusal to share data on what people are spending. Visa is likely to follow suit....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 25, 2013 | HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the round-rock-rumble dept. Seven weeks ago, Dell announced a definitive agreement to be taken private by a group led by founder and CEO Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, assisted by a $2 billion loan from Microsoft and debt financing...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 25, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY, Technicals
Ramnit is one of the most prevalent threat families still active in the wild today. Two years ago, we talked about the infection method it uses in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) blog Little red Ramnit: My what big eyes you have, Grandma! by Scott...
