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New ‘StoatWaffle’ malware auto‑executes attacks on developers

The newly observed malware abuses VS Code’s “runOn:folderOpen” feature to execute automatically from trusted projects, enabling near-frictionless compromise.

By Shweta Sharma

Mar 24, 20263 mins

DeveloperMalwareSecurity

Yahoo investigating if insiders knew of hack

Yahoo said in a filing it was possible that its acquisition by Verizon could be terminated or renegotiated

By John Ribeiro

Nov 10, 2016 3 mins

Cybercrime Hacking Technology Industry

President Trump: An uncertain future for tech industry, digital rights

The new president's tech policy agenda is thin, and what little there is makes IT nervous

By Grant Gross

Nov 10, 2016 5 mins

Careers Encryption Technology Industry

TypeScript 2.1 pulls even more modern JavaScript features

The new version, now at the release candidate stage, features inference and sync improvements

By Paul Krill

Nov 10, 2016 2 mins

Development Tools JavaScript Software Development

4 open source initiatives that need your help

Open source projects and initiatives thrive on contributions and user support. Here are four that are in dire need right now

By Serdar Yegulalp

Nov 9, 2016 3 mins

Engineer Open Source Software Development

Microsoft is working on tools to help people use cloud-based FPGAs

However, there are big challenges with programming hardware

By Blair Frank

Nov 9, 2016 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Angular 3 is hot on the heels of Angular 2

Angular 3 will have better tooling and will generate less code; Google also is promising a new major version twice a year

By Paul Krill

Nov 9, 2016 2 mins

Development Tools JavaScript Software Development

Adobe fixes flaws in Flash Player and Adobe Connect

The Flash Player patches address nine critical vulnerabilities

By Lucian Constantin

Nov 8, 2016 2 mins

Application Security Patch Management Software Security

After protest, Lenovo brings Linux compatibility to Yoga 900 and 900S

Lenovo has issued a BIOS update so users can load Linux on Yoga 900, 900S and Ideapad 710 laptops

By Agam Shah

Nov 8, 2016 3 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Android patches fix Drammer RAM attack, but not Dirty Cow exploit

The security patches address 12 critical vulnerabilities in various Android components and drivers

By Lucian Constantin

Nov 8, 2016 3 mins

Patch Management Software Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Grassley criticizes university over its IT offshoring

A political backlash is growing over UCSF's plan to shift IT jobs overseas

By Patrick Thibodeau

Nov 8, 2016 2 mins

Careers IT Jobs Technology Industry

SAP aims to simplify innovation with update to HANA in-memory database

SAP HANA 2 adds new functions, features, and languages for application developers

By Peter Sayer

Nov 8, 2016 3 mins

Analytics Databases Technology Industry

JavaScript insiders predict its future features

ECMAScript insiders say the new features present complicated problems but are optimistic about their inclusion in future versions of JavaScript

By Paul Krill

Nov 8, 2016 3 mins

JavaScript Open Source Web Development

Carriers are going virtual to give enterprises more freedom

A new global service from Orange includes a virtualized firewall and plug-and-play routers for branch sites

By Stephen Lawson

Nov 7, 2016 2 mins

Security Technology Industry

Java, C remain entrenched as most popular languages

The stalwarts have held the top two spots in Tiobe's popularity index since 2001, even as other languages get all the hype

By Paul Krill

Nov 7, 2016 3 mins

Java Software Development

Kubernetes comes to Azure Container Service at last

Microsoft's cloud container service now comes with support for Kubernetes, and in time will become part of Azure's infrastructure set to be open-sourced

By Serdar Yegulalp

Nov 7, 2016 3 mins

Hybrid Cloud Open Source Technology Industry

U.K. bank suspends online payments after fraud hits 20,000 accounts

Almost one in three of Tesco Bank's checking accounts saw suspicious transactions

By Peter Sayer

Nov 7, 2016 3 mins

Security Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Docker, machine learning are top tech trends for 2017

ThoughtWorks' semiannual Technology Radar also says augmented reality, microservices, and more autonomous team structures will surge in the coming year

By Paul Krill

Nov 7, 2016 3 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

Microsoft EMET gets end-of-life reprieve

Originally slated to expire on Jan. 27, 2017, Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Toolkit will remain under support until July 31, 2018

By Fahmida Rashid

Nov 7, 2016 3 mins

Patch Management Software Security Small and Medium Business

Docker, machine learning are top tech trends for 2017

ThoughtWorks' semiannual Technology Radar also says augmented reality, microservices, and more autonomous team structures will surge in the coming year

By Paul Krill

Nov 7, 2016 3 mins

Agile Development Analytics Careers

China passes controversial, intrusive cybersecurity law

The new law that tightens China’s control over the internet could impact foreign companies

By John Ribeiro

Nov 7, 2016 3 mins

Privacy Security Technology Industry

Update your Belkin WeMo devices before they become botnet zombies

Researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in Belkin's WeMo Switch and possibly other devices

By Lucian Constantin

Nov 4, 2016 5 mins

Consumer Electronics Security Technology Industry

Admins, update your databases to avoid the MySQL bug

Two critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities in MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server for MySQL can help take control of the whole server, which is very bad for shared environments

By Fahmida Rashid

Nov 4, 2016 5 mins

Databases Open Source Patch Management Software

The site aims to avoid replication of custom software development among government agencies

By John Ribeiro

Nov 4, 2016 2 mins

Open Source Software Development Technology Industry

Scala upgrade brings closer alignment with Java 8

Scala 2.12 has an overhauled compiler to better use the VM features of Java 8

By Paul Krill

Nov 4, 2016 2 mins

Development Tools Java Software Development

RHEL 7.3 touches up container tools, touches on IoT

No earth-shaking changes in this year's point revision to Red Hat Enterprise Linux; instead, expect incremental updates around containers, security, IoT

By Serdar Yegulalp

Nov 4, 2016 2 mins

Open Source Software Development Technology Industry

Google Fiber claims a small victory amid a larger defeat

FCC refutes AT&T’s argument that pro-Google Fiber rules are invalid, but does little to shake the incumbent’s hold on the broadband market

By Caroline Craig

Nov 4, 2016 4 mins

AT&T Technology Industry

Scala upgrade brings closer alignment with Java 8

Scala 2.12 has an overhauled compiler to better use the VM features of Java 8

By Paul Krill

Nov 4, 2016 2 mins

Java Software Development

CoreOS Operators let you run apps at scale with Kubernetes

Even apps that aren't particularly suited to scaling can be brought into Kubernetes' world, but some assembly is required

By Serdar Yegulalp

Nov 3, 2016 3 mins

Open Source Software Development Technology Industry

XSS flaw on Wix leaves the door open to worms

A researcher found a cross-site scripting flaw in Wix templates that a worm could have used to infect all Wix-hosted sites, but couldn't find a way to report the vulnerability

By Fahmida Rashid

Nov 3, 2016 6 mins

Security Software Development

A second Privacy Shield legal challenge increases threat to EU-US data flows

A French digital rights group is seeking to annul the European Commission decision implementing Privacy Shield

By Peter Sayer

Nov 3, 2016 2 mins

Data and Information Security Privacy Technology Industry

Infosys’ U.S. workforce is mostly South Asian and no accident, plaintiffs allege

Plaintiffs are seeking class-action status for a lawsuit that alleges Infosys discriminates

By Patrick Thibodeau

Nov 3, 2016 4 mins

Careers IT Jobs Technology Industry

IBM engineer says AR will trump VR for data visualization

It turns out blocking out the world isn't great for work

By Blair Frank

Nov 3, 2016 3 mins

Business Intelligence Data Visualization Technology Industry

Cisco positions Spark at the heart of enterprise work

The company now has an app store for SaaS products integrated into Spark

By Stephen Lawson

Nov 3, 2016 2 mins

SaaS Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Ex-Facebook, Dropbox engineers offer debugging as a service

The Honeycomb SaaS platform lets engineers ask ad hoc questions in real time to cut outages and find bugs and performance issues

By Paul Krill

Nov 3, 2016 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Apache Mesos users focus on big data, containers

A survey of users of the orchestration framework shows that they primarily deploy containers and big data apps, especially Spark

By Serdar Yegulalp

Nov 2, 2016 3 mins

Devops Open Source Technology Industry

Microsoft goes after Slack with new Teams service

Teams focuses on a threaded conversation approach, rather than the separate channels approach in Slack

By Blair Frank

Nov 2, 2016 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

LinkedIn aims to take the guesswork out of salary negotiations

New Salary tool gives users access to aggregate compensation data

By Blair Frank

Nov 2, 2016 3 mins

Careers Salaries Technology Industry

Microsoft shakes up server designs with Project Olympus

Microsoft's next wave of contributions to the Open Compute Project invites speedier collaboration and revision of OCP hardware

By Serdar Yegulalp

Nov 2, 2016 3 mins

Hybrid Cloud Technology Industry

CEO’s message a jolt to IT workers facing layoffs

More than 500 IT employees at insurer Health Care Service Corp. expected to train replacements as work shifts to India-based IT services contractor

By Patrick Thibodeau

Nov 2, 2016 4 mins

Careers IT Jobs Technology Industry

Mobile is now mission-critical for e-business

Hundreds of mobile developers will be hired in-house in every Fortune 100 company, Forrester says

By Matt Hamblen

Nov 2, 2016 3 mins

Mobile Development Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Microsoft stops sales of Windows 7 Professional to OEMs

After extending deadline by two years, Microsoft puts a fork in the world's most popular operating system

By Gregg Keizer

Nov 2, 2016 2 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Race issues emerge as a challenge for tech companies like Uber, Facebook

Lawmakers say companies like Facebook will be more sensitive if they hire more Blacks and Hispanics

By John Ribeiro

Nov 2, 2016 4 mins

Careers Technology Industry

Cisco pits modular storage servers against public clouds

The modular S-Series servers let enterprises mix and match storage and computing for flexibility

By Stephen Lawson

Nov 2, 2016 4 mins

Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Redis module speeds Spark-powered machine learning

The newly released Redis-ML component for the popular in-memory data store accelerates machine learning functions with Apache Spark

By Serdar Yegulalp

Nov 2, 2016 3 mins

Business Intelligence Data Science Databases

Document-style language aims for citizen developers

The Eve language focuses on documents and records rather than code, letting developers create based on how people think instead of on how code is compiled

By Paul Krill

Nov 2, 2016 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development