Month: October 2013

Inrix doubles street coverage with XD Traffic

Inrix’s new service, XD Traffic, not only increases the amount of roads covered, but also gives users a higher resolution of traffic data, with increments down to 800 feet…….


Self-Published Zombie Titles Have Doubled Since 2012

An anonymous reader writes “For the second year in a row, the number of self-published ebooks with the word zombie in their title has doubled. The annual check is performed on Halloween in Amazon’s Kindle Store, and this year discovers 8,052 ebooks (with titles like ‘Jesus Camp Zombie Bloodbath’ and ‘Never Slow Dance with a…


ImpressPages CMS 3.6 Arbitrary File Deletion

ImpressPages CMS version 3.6 suffers from a remote arbitrary file deletion vulnerability…….


Varnish Cache Denial Of Service

If Varnish receives a certain illegal request, and the subroutine ‘vcl_error{}’ restarts the request, the varnishd worker process will crash with an assert. The varnishd management process will restart the worker process, but there will be a brief interruption of service and the cache will be emptied, causing more traffic to go to the backend….


Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov

wjcofkc writes “The United States Government has officially called in the calvary over the problems with Healthcare.gov. Tech titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google have been tapped to join the effort to fix the website that went live a month ago, only to quickly roll over and die. While a tech surge of engineers to…


What do you think the mystery Google barge is?

Tell CNET what you think the odd-looking structure atop the barge might be? A Google Glass store? A floating data center? Or something more nefarious?……


CSC straddles clouds with ServiceMesh gobble

Prepares to paste policy layers over cloudy infrastructure……


ImpressPages CMS 3.6 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection

ImpressPages CMS version 3.6 suffers from multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities that can be leveraged to commit cross site scripting attacks…….


Amazon unleashes JavaScript SDK so devs can conjure cloud gods

Servers? Pah! Just pray Amazon into the browser!……


AEC says missing votes will not turn up

The Australian Electoral Commission says it has looked everywhere for Senate ballot papers missing from Western Australia and doubts they will ever be found…….