Yes, it’s Halloween of 2014, and we’re here to revisit the technologies that are so frightening, they’ll make you evacuate from multiple “interfaces”. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Month: October 2014
Yet Another Cloud OS? By @TrevParsons | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
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YARN stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator. According to Hortonworks , it is “the architectural center of Hadoop”. Source: Tech
Serious Linux/Unix FTP Flaw Allows Command Execution
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A lot of old bugs have been biting us on the butt lately, and here’s another to add to the list. This week it was discovered a fairly nasty FTP Flaw Allows Command Execution when using the old but still fairly widely used. Source: Tech
Mandriva: 2014:212: wget
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Updated wget package fixes security vulnerability: Wget was susceptible to a symlink attack which could create arbitrary files, directories or symbolic links and set their permissions when retrieving a directory recursively through FTP . Source: Tech
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Is Released
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Enterprise users who rely on SUSE Linux now have access to a new and updated version of the platform: SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, announced Monday. SUSE says the key benefits this update offers to customers are increased uptime, improved operational efficiency and accelerated innovation. Source: Tech
GENIVI Alliance Receives Supplier Innovation Award From BMW Group
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Oct. 28, 2014: The GENIVI Alliance, an automotive and consumer electronics industry association driving the development and adoption of open source In-vehicle Infotainment software has received the Supplier Innovation Award in the category of Innovation Partnership from the BMW Group. Presented during its third BMW Supplier Innovation Awards event in Amsterdam, the award recognizes BMW’s…
Shellshock Attacks Mail Servers
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The latest vector for exploits of the Shellshock bug in the Bash shell is SMTP, where the mail headers themselves trigger the exploit. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
EnterpriseDB Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems
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London, UK – October 27, 2014 – EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading worldwide provider of enterprise-class Postgres products and database compatibility solutions, today announced it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the Gartner report, Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems*. EnterpriseDB interprets the placement of EDB in the Leaders Quadrant is part of…
Taiga, a New Open Source Project Management Tool with Focus on Usability
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Whether you are a developer, project manager, or a stakeholder of any level—you’d like to have a clear view of where the project is headed. Are the deadlines being continuously achieved? How is the load on developers? How much of the project is complete? What is next for you in the project? And so on.…
The 'Internet of Things' and Band-Aids? | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
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Last week I told you about my family’s experience with an under the skin glucose sensor that tracks blood sugar levels. While this Internet of Things trend often takes the form of a thermostat, light bulb or coffee machine, the medical field has been using sensors for a while and it is about to get…