Way to go, NSA: America’s lead in cloud computing is in jeopardy because of you. Foreign competitors think they can grow market share in cloud computing because of concerns raised by the National Security Agency’s PRISM program and other government collection of electronic data from third parties. U.S. cloud computing companies could lose $22 billion […]
Zimbabweans knocked offline and see data wiped because of slew of cyber attacks last week during the elections, TechWeekEurope learns. Cyber Repression: In the weeks leading up to and following Zimbabwe’s election of last Thursday, Zimbabweans were hit by significant Internet-based attacks. In some, they could have just been the victims of collateral damage. In […]
[sg_popup id=”9″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] A recent edition of the UK The Economist had an interesting article called “The Server Market; Shifting Sands”. What the article highlighted was the fragile and fluid nature of the global server market. What stands out in the article is the decline in server revenue for the two leading server manufacturers HP […]
TO MOST people, a computer is a device with a screen and a keyboard, sitting on their desk or on their lap. More and more of them have tablets and they may recognise their mobile phones as powerful computers too—for that is what they have become. But a lot of the world’s computing power is […]
Turkish security researcher claims to have found flaw in system, which has been offline since Thursday as company ‘rebuilds and strengthens’ security around databases Apple says its Developer portal has been hacked and that some information about its 275,000 registered third-party developers who use it may have been stolen. The portal at developer.apple.com had been […]
Albert Einstein, a man not known for his lack of learning, once said that we should never learn what we can look up in a book. While it’s often efficient to have all the commands and options we need at our fingertips, sometimes the effort of cramming all that arcana into our brains isn’t worth […]
About Graeme Caldwell — Graeme works as an inbound marketer for InterWorx, a revolutionary web hosting control panel for hosts who need scalability and reliability. Follow InterWorx on Twitter at @interworx, Like them on Facebook and check out their blog, http://www.interworx.com/community. If we accept that all businesses, when creating an infrastructure to support their online […]
About Graeme Caldwell — Graeme works as an inbound marketer for InterWorx, a revolutionary web hosting control panel for hosts who need scalability and reliability. Follow InterWorx on Twitter at @interworx, Like them on Facebook and check out their blog, http://www.interworx.com/community. An extremely hard to find backdoor that exposes web users to malware infection has […]
Our CTO here at GigeNET, Ameen Pishdadi, was recently interviewed by Net-Security.org. In this interview he discusses the various types of DDoS attacks, tells us who is at risk, tackles information gathering during attacks, lays out the lessons that he’s learned when he mitigated large DDoS attacks, and more. Read the full article on the […]
Cheap ways to a fully redundant cluster Over the past 18 months, cloud computing has become an increasingly important component of the individual business; large and startup alike. More and more companies are turning to the cloud for their hosting, storage, and application needs. As companies switch their infrastructure over, the high-availability of these services […]