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Optimizing a budget for automation contains quite a few variables and question marks.  How much will a qualified contractor cost? What are the ongoing costs for an integration? Should we develop an API integration ourselves, or rely on an existing third-party service?  All of these questions lead to one bigger question for small business owners: […]

Digital transformation is changing the way IT investments are made.  Small businesses are adopting new digital technologies to improve traditional processes or replace antiquated technology within their business. And as time goes on, technologies like servers are getting cheaper for small businesses to acquire.  How are the responsibilities and investments related to IT changing for […]

Vivaldi 1.0 offers intriguing features related to tab management and display. Users can “stack” tabs as a grouping so that they can then be displayed as tiles on a page. The new browser also introduces the concept of the Web Panel, a bookmarked Web page that can be seen in a panel, or a small […]

On April 5, Adobe issued the APSA16-01 security advisory, warning of the new critical zero-day flaw—identified as CVE-2016-1019—in Adobe Flash Player that impacts Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Chrome OS users. In its advisory, Adobe warned that “successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected […]

The first WordPress update of 2016 is out and like many other incremental updates, it is being triggered by a security vulnerability. The single security issue being patched in WordPress 4.4.1 is a cross site scripting vulnerability that could have potentially enabled a site compromised. From a general usability and bug perspective there are 52 […]

Back in 2008, security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a poisoning flaw in DNS that could have enabled attackers to infect DNS servers and trick them into pointing to a possibly incorrect IP address. While the underlying DNS server technologies have been patched for the Kaminsky flaw, DNSSEC is regarded as the longer-term solution to improving […]

Firefox 36 provides security fixes and improvements, and is the first version of Firefox to fully support the new HTTP/2 protocol. HTTP/2 is the successor to HTTP 1.1, the protocol on which the Web has run since 1999. On Feb. 18, Mark Nottingham, chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group, declared that HTTP/2 is done—meaning […]

InTrust is designed to help enterprises meet compliance requirements for log data and identify potential security incidents. While InTrust has features that are often thought of in the market as belonging to a SIEM (security information and event management) product, Dell is positioning InTrust in a different way. The SIEM marketplace is highly competitive with […]

Security experts contacted by eWEEK regard the Sony Pictures breach as an interesting event, though it is one that unfortunately is not unique. Todd Harris, director at Core Security, said the attack is an interesting blend of hacktivism, social engineering, intellectual property theft and classic data breach. “While the hack itself doesn’t surprise me, the […]

In a video interview, Paul Cormier, EVP and President at Red Hat, details how the CentOS relationship has worked out over the course of 2014. “I think it has worked out well for everyone,” Cormier said. “The CentOS guys have had access to many more resources, and for us it’s a way to give the […]

With Docker support for Elastic Beanstalk, a developer can now directly deploy a Docker container to Amazon. Docker provides a different model of virtualization than the traditional hypervisor model, which requires an application to include a complete operating system. With Docker, an application rides in a container that can sit on top of an existing […]

The Power8 silicon is being offered in a number of configurations, including a 3.02 GHz chip with 12 or 24 cores, a 3.52 GHz 24-core processor and a 4.15 GHz processor with 8 or 16 cores. In terms of server configurations, IBM is announcing five new Power8 servers, two of which are Linux-only systems. The […]