Day: September 25, 2013

The Most WTF-y Programming Languages

itwbennett writes “A couple of years ago, developer Sammy Larbi undertook a project to identify which languages had the most instances of the string ‘WTF’ in their GitHub code repositories. At the time, Objective C topped the list. ITworld’s Phil Johnson has updated Larbi’s research using GitHub data from the last 21 months, but instead…


HP unleashes OneView admin tool on lazy, uncooperative servers

One platform to manage them all, one platform to define them……


Larry Ellison-backed Oracle Team USA takes America’s Cup

In one of most epic comebacks in the history of sports, Oracle Team USA wins the exciting final race in the 34th America’s Cup to hold onto its defender title. Meanwhile, over at Oracle OpenWorld………


Cisco Security Advisory 20130925-rsvp

Cisco Security Advisory – A vulnerability in the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger an interface queue wedge on the affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper parsing of UDP RSVP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability…


Debian Security Advisory 2764-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2764-1 – Daniel P. Berrange discovered that incorrect memory handling in the remoteDispatchDomainMemoryStats() function could lead to denial of service…….


Google supports hashtag search, leaves out Twitter and Facebook

The search giant is now letting people query for hashtags, but there’s a big catch…….


Cisco Security Advisory 20130925-ike

Cisco Security Advisory – A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a memory leak that could lead to a device reload. The vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of malformed IKE packets by the affected software….


Google looks to help startups start up, unveils hub network

Google already has startup hubs in London and Tel Aviv, which nurture young tech firms. But a new network will cover seven lesser-known pockets of startup activity, from Chicago to Nashville to Minneapolis…….


Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-19

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-19 – A vulnerability in TPP might allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Versions less than 1.3.1-r2 are affected…….


Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-18

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-18 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libvirt, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service. Versions less than 1.0.5.1-r3 are affected…….