Tag archive: server

Hackers responsible for the massive security breach of Sony's PlayStation Network that left as much as 100 million users at risk of identity theft used an Amazon-run server to launch the attack, according to “a person with knowledge of the matter,” reports Bloomberg. Rather than hijack Amazon's server, the hackers allegedly used an alias to sign up for an account through Amazon's EC2 service, and waged their cyber… Read More

After almost months of investigations, Ohio State University revealed that it is notifying about 760,000 students, professors, and other employees that their names and Social Security numbers may have been stolen. The university will spend $4 million to pay for the investigation and credit-protection services for those who have been affected by the attack, which is one of the largest to hit a university. In late October, the university… Read More

If the second week of the month is coming up, then Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday must be close, and for August the company is planning at least nine security fixes, it’s revealed. Five of the patches are deemed critical, three of them affecting Windows Vista, Windows XP and Server 2008 users. Windows 2000 and Server 2003 are vulnerable to four of the flaws, while the last of the critical vulnerabilities affects Office XP, 2003 and… Read More

Computer maker Acer is getting into the home server business, announcing its new easyStore Home Server is now available in the United States, targeting multi-PC households and small businesses looking to centralize backups along with media and document access. Built around an Intel Atom processor and Windows Home Server, the Aspire easyStore AH340-UA230N Home Server is designed to make it easy for home and businesses with multiple PCs to… Read More

Yes, it’s that time of the month again. Tomorrow is Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft has announced it will be releasing just four fixes for February, two of them ‘critical’ and two ‘important.’ The first critical fix addresses flaws in Internet Explorer 7 in both XP and Vista, the although Server 2003 and Server 2008 systems are just considered moderate risks. However, the server systems do get a… Read More

According to its Critical Patch Pre-Release Announcement, Oracle will be issuing one of its large, periodic patches today to address security vulnerabilities in its products – in this case a total of 41 fixes. They address several versions of Oracle Database, Secure Backup, Application Server, WebLogic Server and Portal, and more. Oracle is recommending that customers apply the fixes as soon as possible.

Hewlett-Packard hasn't been pushing its home servers lately, but the company is looking to get back on the radar with its new HP MediaSmart Server ex485/ex487, which can act as a central repository for a household's worth of photos, music, and movies and serve as a centralized backup store. And, what's more, the new versions can be used to back up Macs running Mac OS X Leopard's integrated Time Machine backup… Read More

When the European Union launched its digital library, Europeana, last month, it never expected the demand that ensued. On its 20 November launch it received a staggering 10 million hits an hour, causing the server to crash, and forcing the EU to suspend the service. Now, however, Europeana, which archives over two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films, according to the BBC, is back online… Read More

Following up on the company's February promise to offer developers the information they need to interoperate with WIndows Vista and key server technologies, Microsoft has posted more than 14,000 pages of preliminary technical documentation on the Open Protocol Specifications area of its MSDN site. The new material brings the total amount of published protocol documentation to over 44,000 pages that any developer can access for free.… Read More

In a move no doubt calculated to appease antitrust officials in Europe and the rest of the world, Microsoft has announced four key new interoperability principles it intends to implement across Windows Vista, it's .NET framework, and mainstream server technologies. The new interoperability concepts are intended to increase the openness of Microsoft's products and provide opportunities for developers—in fact, the company is… Read More

A long-time favorite mobile solution with enterprises and large organizations, Canada's Research in Motion has announced BlackBerry Professional Software, a new package of wireless offerings targeting smaller businesses and supporting up to 30 wireless users. “Productivity and flexibility are obviously important for small and medium-sized businesses,” said RIM president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, in a statement. “We… Read More

Having access to a  server offers network users all sorts of options and possibilities – with the  minor caveat that building and maintaining one is really an exercise for only the geekiest to undertake. Eliminating this problem was the driving force behind Windows Home Server, which was announced back at CES 2007 then developed quietly behind closed doors, until now. After much anticipation and no public beta, it’s… Read More

During his keynote at this year's WinHEC conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced that Gateway, LaCie, and Medion will be joining Hewlett-Packard as OEMs offering systems based on Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Home Server. Microsoft announced Windows Home Server back in January, and the software marks the company's first foray into a server operating system specifically designed to the home and… Read More

As part of the company's CES announcements, Microsoft has taken the wraps off Windows Home Server, a new software platform designed to let home computer users centralize their digital media, access it from anywhere in the home or remotely via the Internet, and backup and restore files and data on their Windows PCs—even “rewind” troublesome PCs to a point in the past where they were working properly. “As… Read More

TVersity announced today that they've rolled support for Sony's Playstation Portable (PSP) into their TVersity Media Server, their all-encompassing, format-translating media server for slinging music, images, photos, and more across devices, transports, and platforms. TVersity Media Server is an UPNP AV compliant media server which tries to make Internet-based media available anywhere, anytime, on any device you happen to have… Read More