Way back in 2011, PlayStation Network services and websites went dark due to "an external intrusion." Anonymous claimed responsibility, names, passwords and possible payment information was lost in a... read more
Featured Slideshow
cloud
Ex-Googlers Building Cloud Software That's Almost Impossible to Take Down
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-07-22 01:05
Cockroaches are some of the most resilient creatures on earth. They can live for 45 minutes without air and over a month without food. Cutting their heads off won’t even kill them—at least not immediately. Their bodies can live on for several days without their heads.
Microsoft COO tells partners to get with the cloud program now
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-07-15 01:02
Microsoft channel partners need to urgently redefine and evolve their businesses so that they can resell the company's cloud computing products, according to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner.
Just as Microsoft has embarked on a sometimes painful reinvention, its partners need to follow suit, because the alternative is to miss a massive opportunity in cloud computing, a vehement Turner said Monday at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference.
CoreOS: Linux for the cloud and the datacenter
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-07-02 02:50
If you manage a cloud or a datacenter, chances are you run CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), or Ubuntu. These are all great server Linux distributions, but none of them were designed to be deployed over hundreds or thousands of servers at once. Now there is such a distribution: CoreOS.
Microsoft Bulks Up Azure Web Sites Encryption
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-06-11 03:21
In the wake of last year's National Security Agency spying revelations and after the discovery of the high-profile "Heartbleed" vulnerability, security has become a top priority for cloud services providers.
Microsoft, for its part, is hardening its Azure Web Sites service with support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), announced Erez Benari, an Azure Web Sites program manager. Azure Web Sites is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that enables customers to quickly spin up and scale Websites and applications.
Researchers urge hackers to exploit Hyper-V's huge attack surface
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2014-06-06 07:59
At the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam, ERNW security researchers Enno Rey, Felix Wilhelm, and Matthias Luft presented Compromise-as-a-Service: Our PleAZURE (pdf).