Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes “Joseph Stromberg reports at the Smithsonian that if there’s one group has an obvious and immediate financial stake in climate change, it’s the insurance industry and in recent years, insurance industry researchers who attempt to determine the annual odds of catastrophic weather-related disasters say they’re seeing something new. ‘Our business…

Unnamed sources tell All Things Digital that, despite his initial claims to the contrary, Ford CEO Alan Mulally has warmed up to the idea of succeeding Steve Ballmer and is now a frontrunner candidate…….

Heavy downloads of Apple’s iOS 7 update caused huge spikes in traffic for many service providers, according to a Web security firm…….

The web is experiencing a ‘Java renaissance.’ But did Java really go anywhere?……

First time accepted submitter loftarasa writes “A group of scientists led by Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and MIT Professor of Physics Vladan Vuletic have developed a form of matter by binding massless photons together in a special kind of medium to create ‘photonic molecules’, effectively bringing us a bit closer to a world…

This Metasploit module exploits vulnerabilities found in Astium astium-confweb-2.1-25399 RPM and lower. A SQL Injection vulnerability is used to achieve authentication bypass and gain admin access. From an admin session arbitrary PHP code upload is possible. It is used to add the final PHP payload to “/usr/local/astium/web/php/config.php” and execute the “sudo /sbin/service astcfgd reload” command…

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-1292-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A use-after-free flaw was found in the madvise() system call implementation in the Linux kernel. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or, potentially, escalate their privileges. A…

EMC VPLEX contains a vulnerability that stores the LDAP/AD bind password in plain text in the VPLEX management server configuration file. This can potentially be exploited by a malicious user who has access to the configuration file to obtain the sensitive password and gain privileged access to protected resources. Affected versions include EMC VPLEX Local/Metro/Geo…

Like Amazon, but it costs money……

Platforms to unite in ONE APP STORE TO RULE THEM ALL……