by Joseph Forbes | Apr 25, 2013 | Cloud Apps, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Web Hosting
from the protect-ya-neck dept. On Friday Linode announced a precautionary password reset due to an attack despite claiming that they were not compromised. The attacker has claimed otherwise, claiming to have obtained card numbers and password hashes. Password hashes,...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 23, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, TECHNOLOGY
from the nicht-ohne-meine-ketten dept. In a recent blog post, Netflix details their plans to transition from Silverlight to HTML5, but with one caveat: HTML5 needs to include a built-in DRM scheme. With the W3C’s proposed Encrypted Media Extensions, this may...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 17, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
from the latest-and-greatest dept. Red Hat still doesn’t have a fully supported commercial version of OpenStack in the market yet (coming this summer) as it lags behind Ubuntu and SUSE. But Red Hat is doing something no other distro vendor has done, they are...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, SECURITY, Web Hosting
Researchers at Sucuri have found that version 4.0 of the WordPress Social Media Widget, also referred to as social-media-widget, has been injecting spam advertisements into sites. It is recommended that anyone using the widget, which has over 900,000 users, remove or...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
from the stop-or-i’ll-say-stop-again dept. Social Media Widget, a free plug-in for the WordPress blogging platform with more than a million downloads, was restored to WordPress’s official plugin directory on Thursday, days after it was found injecting...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The Kindle Fire HD is a cracking little tablet, but it’s very much Amazon’s way or the highway (the highway in this case being the Google Nexus 7) — you’re stuck with Amazon’s customized interface, Amazon’s choice of apps, and...
