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PyPI warns developers after LiteLLM malware found stealing cloud and CI/CD credentials

The compromised packages, linked to the Trivy breach, executed a three‑stage payload targeting AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes configs, SSH keys, and automation pipelines before being removed.

By Shweta Sharma

Mar 25, 20264 mins

Development ToolsSecuritySoftware Development

Meteor JavaScript framework hits Windows

Windows support had been the most-requested feature for the framework, which now also works with MongoDB 3.0

By Paul Krill

Mar 31, 2015 2 mins

JavaScript Software Development

HP links Vertica and IDOL seeking better unstructured data analysis

The company built a connector server for the products, which it acquired separately in 2011

By Joab Jackson

Mar 30, 2015 2 mins

Analytics Databases

Google equips Go with an experimental cross-platform UI

Bare-bones GXUI cross-platform UI library is garnering interest on GitHub, given Go's lack of native GUI support

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 30, 2015 3 mins

Golang Software Development Technology Industry

Bit by bit, Intel looks to quadruple SSD storage

Intel is looking to cram four bits per cell in an effort to cram more storage into SSDs

By Agam Shah

Mar 30, 2015 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Why do web developers choose OS X instead of Linux?

In today's open source roundup: What will it take to get web developers to choose Linux instead of OS X? Plus: DistroWatch reviews Tails 1.3, and the Linux Mint developers want to make the Cinnamon desktop load faster

By Jim Lynch

Mar 30, 2015 9 mins

Open Source Software Development

Mobile service providers and consumers would get access to a fat frequency band used mostly by government today

By Stephen Lawson

Mar 30, 2015 3 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

GitHub still recovering from massive DDoS attacks

The attacks, which started Thursday, were particularly aimed at two GitHub-hosted projects fighting Chinese censorship

By Jeremy Kirk

Mar 30, 2015 3 mins

Cybercrime Security

Could Docker replace package management?

Linux's package management headaches could be solved by way of containers, but experts warn it's only half a solution

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 30, 2015 3 mins

Software Development

Google Dart upgrade hones in on asynchronous programming

The Dart language gets a number of improvements right as Google lowers its ambitions for Dart VM

By Paul Krill

Mar 30, 2015 2 mins

JavaScript

Google Dart upgrade hones in on asynchronous programming

The Dart language gets a number of improvements right as Google lowers its ambitions for Dart VM

By Paul Krill

Mar 30, 2015 2 mins

Development Tools Java Web Development

Slack hacked, compromising users’ profile data

After suffering a hack last month, the company has added two-factor authentication

By Zach Miners

Mar 27, 2015 2 mins

Data and Information Security Hacking Security

A House committee approves a second bill, despite concerns about consumer privacy

By Grant Gross

Mar 27, 2015 3 mins

Security Technology Industry

Google Cloud Launcher deploys VM-based apps in a snap

Google offers a new service for launching packaged apps in VMs to Cloud Platform, by way of a partnership with Bitnami

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 27, 2015 2 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry

BlackBerry shocks with Q4 profit but CEO Chen can’t stop sales slide

BlackBerry's revenue dropped by 32 percent year-on-year

By Mikael Ricknäs

Mar 27, 2015 2 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

UN to appoint watchdog to focus on privacy in digital age

Council says the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online — including the right to privacy

By John Ribeiro

Mar 27, 2015 3 mins

Privacy Technology Industry

Microsoft wants to make PowerPoint more Web-friendly, buys LiveLoop

The software giant continues to buy companies to strengthen its Office apps and services

By Mikael Ricknäs

Mar 27, 2015 2 mins

Microsoft Office Software Development Technology Industry

Facebook: We don’t hate the Web

But for the time being Facebook is sticking to native development for mobile apps and open-sourcing its React Native technology

By Paul Krill

Mar 27, 2015 2 mins

JavaScript

Washington is coming for your personal data

Little-noticed change to judicial rules gives the FBI greater powers to conduct remote searches, and the 'zombie bill' CISA is on the fast track to a Senate vote

By Caroline Craig

Mar 27, 2015 6 mins

Data and Information Security Privacy Technology Industry

CISA will mean more surveillance, not fewer cyber attacks

The proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would make us less secure

By David Linthicum

Mar 27, 2015 2 mins

Cyberattacks Privacy Security

Salesforce venture plants new stake in the cloud via SaaS ERP

FinancialForce's next big move may be to find a way to offer SaaS ERP services to the high-end customers that have historically been hard sells

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 26, 2015 3 mins

SaaS Software Development

GNOME 3.16 released

In today's open source roundup: Check out what's new in GNOME 3.16. Plus: Will Windows 10 Secure Boot kill Linux? And the HTC One M9 will be available tonight at midnight

By Jim Lynch

Mar 26, 2015 6 mins

Open Source Software Development Technology Industry

White House making it easier to get an L-1 visa

Federal action raises concerns among critics of temporary work programs like L-1 and H-1B

By Patrick Thibodeau

Mar 26, 2015 4 mins

Careers Technology Industry

More than half of all IE users face patch axe in 10 months

The majority of IE users face a support retirement deadline that Microsoft unexpectedly announced last August

By Gregg Keizer

Mar 26, 2015 3 mins

Patch Management Software Software Development Technology Industry

Facebook’s iOS UI development framework goes open source

ComponentKit framework, now offered for general use, reduces the complexity of writing code

By Paul Krill

Mar 26, 2015 1 min

Mobile Development Open Source Technology Industry

Google: Dart will not replace in-browser JavaScript

Though created as a replacement for JavaScript in the browser, Google's Dart will now be compiled rather than run in its own VM

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 26, 2015 2 mins

Cloud Computing JavaScript

Microsoft brings Node.js debugging to Visual Studio

Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio supports deploying Node.js applications in Microsoft Azure

By Paul Krill

Mar 26, 2015 2 mins

JavaScript Software Development

Facebook pushes Messenger as future of business communication

Facebook sees Business on Messenger replacing the telephone as people's go-to for communicating with enterprises

By Paul Krill

Mar 25, 2015 2 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Oracle customizes project management for lines of business

Government, financial services, and construction are all getting custom project management software packages from Oracle

By Joab Jackson

Mar 25, 2015 2 mins

Cloud Computing SaaS

What’s behind NoSQL maker FoundationDB’s disappearing act?

NoSQL database creator ceases offering downloads and removes its GitHub repositories after reportedly being bought by Apple

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 25, 2015 2 mins

Databases Open Source Technology Industry

Apple database acquisition could help improve performance of its services

FoundationDB's NoSQL technology lets the company grow its services and still keep users happy

By Mikael Ricknäs

Mar 25, 2015 2 mins

Databases Technology Industry

LibreOffice’s next big version is in the cloud

A key LibreOffice developer is preparing to turn the productivity site into a competitor for Google Apps and Microsoft Office Online

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 25, 2015 4 mins

Open Source Software Development

Zero day, Web browser vulnerabilities spike in 2014

The good news: More than 83 percent of vulnerabilities had patches ready when the flaws became public

By Jeremy Kirk

Mar 25, 2015 3 mins

Hacking Patch Management Software Technology Industry

EMTEC Type-C flash drives to begin shipping

The new USB Type-C thumb drives are backward compatible with USB 2.0

By Lucas Mearian

Mar 25, 2015 2 mins

Android flaw puts personal data at risk for millions

Flaw could make nearly half of Android devices vulnerable to an attack that modifies or replaces apps with malware that collects data

By Jeremy Kirk

Mar 25, 2015 2 mins

Malware Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Dell support tool put PCs at risk of malware infection

Weak authentication in Dell's System Detect utility could have enabled drive-by malware attacks

By Lucian Constantin

Mar 25, 2015 4 mins

Access Control Dell Malware

Dump JavaScript for faster Web loading? Let the debate begin

An ‘HTML6' proposal to speed Web page loads gets a skeptical reaction from an Angular.js co-author

By Paul Krill

Mar 25, 2015 2 mins

JavaScript Technology Industry

HP boxes up the cloud for the enterprise

The HP Helion Rack provides a prepackaged cloud ready to run

By Joab Jackson

Mar 24, 2015 3 mins

Cloud Computing Private Cloud

Three ways to run Windows software in Linux

In today's open source roundup: How to run Windows software in your favorite Linux distribution. Plus: Four tools to securely delete data in Linux, and MIPS-powered Chromebooks might be on the way

By Jim Lynch

Mar 24, 2015 7 mins

Open Source Software Development

Joyent’s Docker host runs containers on bare metal without VMs

Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure is the latest example of a third party solving Docker's problems

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 24, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Flash-based vulnerability lingers on many websites three years later

A large number of developers have failed to patch their Flash apps against a vulnerability that can be exploited to target Web users

By Lucian Constantin

Mar 24, 2015 3 mins

Access Control Patch Management Software Security

Security startup records a year’s worth of network data

Lightweight sensors from ProtectWise record network data so security professionals can go back and analyze it

By Jeremy Kirk

Mar 24, 2015 4 mins

Network Security Security Technology Industry

Microsoft Azure App Service woos business developers

By merging new and existing Azure offerings, App Service creates a single space for developing business apps with multiple facets: Web, mobile, and API

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 24, 2015 4 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

FCC faces first lawsuits against proposed Net neutrality order

Broadband industry trade group USTelecom and Internet provider Alamo Broadband have filed the suits

By John Ribeiro

Mar 24, 2015 3 mins

Technology Industry

Google catches bad digital certificates from Egyptian company

An Egyptian company issued unauthorized digital certificates for Google's services, a major no-no

By Jeremy Kirk

Mar 24, 2015 3 mins

Encryption Security Technology Industry

Why analytics is eating the world

New tools promise to empower an increasingly diverse set of business users, but there are potential pitfalls

By Katherine Noyes

Mar 24, 2015 4 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Data Management

Marketers can’t keep up on updating their mobile apps

Forrester report finds that app enhancements are a challenge for developers due to complicating factors like OS upgrades and special features

By Paul Krill

Mar 24, 2015 3 mins

Mobile Development Technology Industry

Beyond Hadoop: The streaming future of big data

Big data technologies like Spark are all the rage, but are they the future? The answer is complicated

By Matt Asay

Mar 23, 2015 5 mins

Analytics Data Management

Facebook engineering tool mimics dodgy network connectivity

Facebook's ATC (Augmented Traffic Control) can simulate network traffic on 2G, Edge, 3G, or LTE networks

By Joab Jackson

Mar 23, 2015 2 mins

Development Tools

The Fedora Project is looking for a volunteer Diversity Advisor

In today's open source roundup: The Fedora Project seeks a Diversity Advisor. Plus: DistroWatch reviews Bodhi Linux 3.0, and reviews of HTC's One M9 phone

By Jim Lynch

Mar 23, 2015 11 mins

Open Source Software Development Technology Industry