FreeBSD 11.0 has a new release date of October 5, 2016. Due to some security fixes that had to be included. A rebuild of the FreeBSD 11.0 image was required. FreeBSD 11 was set to be released today but that won’t be happening. Instead it will probably be next Wednesday. An explanation of the delay […]
The security blog KrebsOnSecurity.com is back online after Google is taking over the role of providing protection to the site from DDoS attacks. Google is protecting the site under the service called Project Shield. Project Shield states it’s purpose is to protect news sites and other free expression sites from attacks. The service is offered […]
A leading security blog has been taken offline temporary because of a record DDoS attack on the site. KrebsOnSecurity.com is temporary not available due to a large DDoS attack that is believed to be caused by one or more organizations that offer DDoS attack services for hire. KrebsOnSecurity recently reported on an organization that offer […]
Yahoo! was hacked sometime in 2014. If you have or ever had a Yahoo! user account. You should immediately change the password. Yahoo! thinks at least 500 million accounts were breached. Information that was obtained by the hackers include: names, telephone numbers, email addresses, dates of births, hashed passwords, and possibly some security questions and […]
Secure-24, a managed application web hosting provider has announced that so far for the first half of 2016. The company experienced a 86% year-over-year in bookings so far. Secure-24 experienced growth in providing solutions for customers that used: SAP HANA, Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, Microsoft, and Hyperion software. Full press release: Secure-24 Reports 84 […]
FreeBSD 11.0 final – the new release date is now September 28, 2016. Originally it was suppose to be on September 9, 2016 but that didn’t happen. The day came and went and there was still no FreeBSD 11.0RC3. FreeBSD 11.0RC3 build is set to begin this week. After RC3 is released and other bugs […]
Digital Ocean has announced that the New York VPS provider has added high memory “droplets” to its product offering. High memory intensive droplets will enable developers and other customers to run large databases and other memory intensive applications. Pricing for high memory droplets starts at $120 dollars per month and includes: 16 GB of memory, […]
GoDaddy has announced the company has acquired ManageWP. ManageWP provides a dashboard service to let administrators of WordPress sites, manage all their different WordPress sites from one common dashboard. This acquisition by GoDaddy will help and provide GoDaddy customers with a new tool to manage their WordPress sites hosted at GoDaddy. The ManageWP service enables […]
After the announcement of Apollo Global Management acquiring Rackspace for $32 per share, at least five different law firm believes the deal may be undervaluing Rackspace and is exploring possible claims against the Board of Directors of Rackspace. The different law firms cite either the offer of $32 per share is too low, question whether […]
After weeks of rumors and speculation that Rackspace was talking to private equity firms about going private. The deal has been finally confirmed that entities controlled by Apollo Global Management will buy Rackspace for $4.3 billion dollars or $32 dollars per share. Apollo Global Management has at least $186 billion dollars in assets under management […]