Fahmida Y. Rashid

Gawker’s family of Websites will integrate third-party account verification systems into its commenting system to defend against future database attacks, Gawker Media CTO Tom Plunkett wrote in an e-mail memo to the staff. In the memo, which was also posted on Jim Romenesko’s Poynter blog, Plunkett wrote that, “We should not be in the business […]

Attackers are already exploiting a bug in the Exim mailer to remotely execute code on compromised Linux machines, according to a pair of Linux security advisories. Posted on US-Cert as Vulnerability Note VU #682457, the bug exists in Exim mail server software prior to version 4.70. Affected systems include Debian Linux, Novell’s SUSE Linux, and […]

Many enterprises, including the largest, are actively exploring cloud computing, according to the results of a study released by CA Technologies on Dec. 16. More than 80 percent of surveyed enterprises and 92 percent of the largest enterprises, have at least one cloud service, the report found. Additionally, more than half, or 52 percent, of […]

Rackspace will acquire Cloudkick, developer of a cloud-server management portal, to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio, Rackspace confirmed on Dec. 16. With cloud computing, organizations can quickly and efficiently launch new servers, but in the automated cloud environment organizations can end up using server resources inefficiently and can “even lose track of some,” said Lew […]

Eyeing huge growth opportunities in the European software-as-a-service market, Citrix Online will acquire German SAAS provider Netviewer, said parent company Citrix Systems on Dec. 17. The transaction is expected to close in early 2011. Citrix will purchase all the shares of the privately held company, but financial terms were not disclosed. Netviewer currently has 220 […]

OpSource’s new Managed Services for the Cloud is offering a helping hand to organizations interested in moving to the cloud but are unsure about dealing with the technical aspects of cloud management. OpSource’s Managed Services for the Cloud is a suite of application and system management services available to customers on the OpSource cloud infrastructure. […]

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced a new Travelstar 2.5-inch drive that it claimed was the thinnest hard drive in the industry on Dec. 15. The new Hitachi Travelstar Z5k500 drive family hits the “sweet spot” for the mobile 2.5-inch market, Hitachi said. With a thickness of a mere 7mm, the Travelstar Z5K500 drive has a […]

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies unveiled a line of 3TB internal and external hard disk storage drives for business and home applications. The external drive has enough storage for both Mac and PC users to store or backup their digital photos, music libraries, and movie collections, Hitachi said. “Our 3TB offerings are a perfect addition to […]

Toshiba’s storage division announced a family of enterprise-class solid state drives with low power requirements on Dec. 14. Toshiba’s new MK x001GRZB series 2.5 inch SSD drives use the company’s 32nm enterprise grade single-level cell NAND flash memory and a 6 Gb/sec serial attached SCSI interface. “Toshiba stands alone in the market as the only […]

Seagate Technologies on Dec. 14 officially launched the Barracuda Green, a high-performance eco-friendly 3.5-inch desktop drive. Formerly known as Barracuda LP (low power), the new drive is designed and built to the “highest” environmental standards, said Seagate. The new drives use fewer halogen components to reduce the negative impact on the environment. More than 70 […]

Software-as-a-service worldwide revenues for enterprise applications will reach $10.7 billion in 2011, said Gartner on Dec. 14. The market generated worldwide revenues of $7.9 billion in 2009, and is forecast to reach $9.2 billion for 2010, according to the analyst firm. While growth was strong for 2010, with a 15.7 percent jump over 2009 revenues, […]

Core Security Technologies introduced Core Insight Enterprise, an automated penetration test suite with risk assessment capabilities. Like its flagship product Core Impact Pro, Core Insight Enterprise, released Dec. 13, allows organizations to launch multiple automated penetration tests to discover vulnerabilities in “critical campaigns” and “critical assets,” Mark Hatton, CEO of Core Security, told eWEEK. Like […]