Windows Home Server beta unveiled
by Lance Whitney A free beta version of the latest edition of Microsoft’s Windows Home Server–code-named Vail–is available for download. Unveiled online Monday, Microsoft promises four major changes in Vail: the ability to stream music and video outside your home network via the Internet, easier back-up and restoration of files on multiple PCs, simpler, more [...]
Who’s the Boss in Cloud Land?
By Richard Adhikari Cloud computing — certainly a hot topic at the RSA conference held earlier this month in San Francisco — is in some ways being eclipsed by security and accountability concerns. Who owns the data? Who is answerable if the cloud fails? Who is responsible if a virtual machine holding data from a [...]
Oracle rushes out patch for gaping server hole
Posted by Ryan Naraine Oracle has released an out-of-band patch to fix a gaping security hole in the Oracle WebLogic Node Manager and warned that an attacker could launch remote attacks over a network without the need for a username and password. The patch follows the public release of exploit code as part of the [...]