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Hacker leaks passwords for more than 500,000 servers, routers, and IoT devices
The list was shared by the operator of a DDoS booter service.
Proof-of-concept code published for Citrix bug as attacks intensify
Two Citrix bug (CVE-2019-19781) exploits have been published on GitHub yesterday, making future attacks trivial for most hackers.
FPGA cards can be abused for faster and more reliable Rowhammer attacks
Researchers expand Rowhammer attacks to FPGA-CPU hybrid platforms.
5 ways technology progressed us in 10 years: The story so far
The role of technology infrastructure in our lives and work isn’t so obvious until you remember what a phone call, a home movie, and a drive across the country were like way, way back in 2010.
Rambler will drop NGINX criminal case
Company says any legal matters will be handled in a civil court, but the case looks dead after a former Rambler CEO shot down Rambler's main argument over the weekend.
Web Cache Deception attacks still impact websites with 'substantial user populations'
Two years after first being disclosed, web cache deception attacks impact 25 of today's most popular websites.
Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office
Russian search engine Rambler.ru claims full ownership of NGINX code.
How Microsoft's Azure organization makes the Windows sausage
Microsoft Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander discusses how he's looking at his world now that it includes Windows engineering.
20 VPS providers to shut down on Monday, giving customers two days to save their data
No explanation given for the sudden shutdown. Customers suspect an exit scam.
New vulnerability lets attackers sniff or hijack VPN connections
OpenVPN, WireGuard, and IKEv2/IPSec VPNs are vulnerable to attacks.
Ransomware attack hits major US data center provider
CyrusOne data centers infected by REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware.
HPE tells users to patch SSDs to prevent failure after 32,768 hours of operation
HPE SAS SSD users need to install a critical firmware patch or they'll lose their SSDs, including their data.
Dell Q3 mixed as server, networking sales slide
Dell's PC unit fared well on the commercial side and storage sales were up in the third quarter, but servers and networking were trouble spots.
A hacking group is hijacking Docker systems with exposed API endpoints
It's almost 2020 and some sysadmins are still leaving Docker admin ports exposed on the internet.
Exploit code published for two dangerous Apache Solr remote code execution flaws
Proof-of-concept code published for yet unpatched Apache Solr zero-day.
AI, blockchain, servers, smartphones and more: Research round-up
We summarise the charts that tell the tech story of the past month.
Windows Server vNext Technical Preview: Screenshots
The next version of Windows Server is at an early stage of development, but some of the new functionality for orchestrating virtualised compute, storage and networking resources on commodity hardware is available for early adopters to test. Here's how it's shaping up.
In pictures: Take a look inside Telefonica's Madrid datacenter
The Spanish telco's largest facility is based outside the Spanish capital. ZDNet was invited along to see inside.
Microservers: In pictures
Tower, rack and blade servers are familiar enough, but what do microservers look like? We examine examples from HP, SeaMicro and Dell.
The tech behind the Bathurst 1000
Each year, the V8 Supercars series converges on Mount Panorama for the endurance race known as the Bathurst 1000. ZDNet took a look at the tech behind the data used by the Symantec Nissan team to strategise the race.
Inside IBM's 300mm chip fab: Photos
IBM's 300mm chip fab in upstate New York turns out high-performance chips around the clock. ZDNet was invited to take a look inside, and learn about what the future holds for chip making.
Cool runnings: IBM's recipe for a happy datacentre, in pictures
How do you make your datacentre run better, and save money? At IBM's research labs and facilities in upstate New York, three ideas are uppermost on people's minds: energy efficiency, monitoring, and utilisation.
Dell PowerEdge R520 review
It's not the most powerful or scalable 2U server in Dell's PowerEdge range, but the R520 is still a quick, capable and affordable dual-socket platform that can be configured to handle a variety of both datacentre and distributed office workloads.
Windows Server 2012: RTM screenshots
Server Manager, the admin console for Microsoft's latest server OS, has a modern-style GUI, and is a one-stop shop for managing devices, tools and services.
Dell PowerEdge T620 review
The tower equivalent of the rack-mounted R720, Dell's PowerEdge T620 sports the same processor, RAM and management options plus even more flexible storage. It's a powerful and versatile platform that can cope with everything from standard file and print duties through distributed branch office applications to private cloud deployment.
Windows Server 2012 Essentials: Screenshots
Microsoft has done a lot to simplify the server experience in Windows Server 2012 Essentials, which mixes both business and consumer features.
Screenshots: Windows Server 2012 RC
As Windows Server 2012 nears the finishing line, here's an update on the look and feel of the Release Candidate.
CeBIT 2012 opens: photos
Business-technology exhibition CeBIT 2012 kicked off today, bringing together a who's who of technology players. Many exhibitors appeared to be playing it safe, with booth babes absent from view. Instead, a few took BYO to heart, and brought their own trucks, caravans and bikes.
Dell PowerEdge T320
Dell has done a lot more than simply upgrade the PowerEdge T320 to the new Xeon E5-2400 processor. Memory and storage also get a huge boost, and there's optional iDRAC 7 management and an embedded hypervisor option, making this a real SME power platform.
Fujitsu Primergy RX300 S7
A big step up from the previous S6 model, the seventh iteration of the RX300 majors on performance and capacity, and can be used to run a wide range of datacentre applications.
How infrastructure remade our world since 2010
Scott Fulton tells Karen Roby that people ask new and more complex questions of Siri, Alexa, and Google every day. How accurate and useful their responses are speaks to the massive fundamental changes behind the devices we use. Scott Fulton, who covered epic changes in 1990 and 2000, shines a spotlight backward on the under-appreciated platforms that made these changes possible, and the people who created them. Read more: https://zd.net/2Sg4yVJ
This new memory chip could be a game changer for machine learning
For many years, it's been hard to commercialize "MRAM" memory chips because of their unpredictability. But a startup, Spin Memory, is betting that the randomness operating in MRAM might make it an ideal chip for machine learning.
Security dream? DNS-over-HTTPS does not prevent ISPs from tracking users' web traffic
Several experts, companies, and national entities have voiced very convincing concerns about DoH and its features.
Chip startup Spin Memory wants to change the key ingredients of all chips
ZDNet's Tiernan Ray explains that a special mind of data memory called MRAM, for magnetic random access memory, has taken years to commercialize. Startup spin memory thinks the key to making it work is to take advantage of the inherent randomness in MRAM. Viewed from that perspective, the chip could actually accelerate AI applications, giving it special appeal. Read more: https://zd.net/2Vmar3i
MuleSoft strategy sets up an example for the whole industry to follow
How MuleSoft patched a critical security flaw and avoided a disaster.
Chinese hackers are scanning the internet for Fortinet and Pulse Secure VPN servers
Security researchers spot Chinese state-sponsored hackers going after high-end enterprise VPN servers.
Cloudflare drops extremist online message board 8chan after El Paso mass shooting
8chan has harbored a community of hate and three mass-shooters have now hosted manifestos on the platform.
Tor Project to fix old bug used against dark web (.onion) websites.
Tor vulnerability has been exploited for years and has been used for censorship, sabotage, and extortion of Onion sites.
Dell Technologies lays out its hybrid cloud plan with a heavy dose of VMware
Dell Technologies' crown jewel in its portfolio is VMware and the technology giant is now making it the glue that holds its portfolio of companies together.
What you need to know about serverless computing
ZDNet's Scott Fulton tells TechRepublic's Karen Roby all about the ins and outs of serverless computing. Read more: https://zd.net/2Dh8c9q
Ultra secure email: Gmail adds MTA-STS and TLS Reporting standards
Google rolled out MTA-STS and TLS Reporting support for Gmail servers on April 10, 2019.
Micron to scoop up Intel portion of IM Flash for $1.5 billion
Intel to exit joint venture with Micron at a time of its choosing in the next six to twelve months.
LG Chem to invest 1.2 trillion won in China battery factory
LG Chem will invest 1.2 trillion won -- around $1.07 billion -- to expand its battery factories in Nanjing to meet rising demand for electric vehicles and home appliances in China.
Dell announces a refreshed XPS 13 laptop
Dell has improved its webcam in the XPS 13, which it claims was the one complaint it received about the previous model, with the device priced at $900 and powered by a quad-core 8th gen Intel processor.
ST Telemedia to build first Thailand data centre with joint venture partner
Singapore's ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has unveiled plans to build a 75,000 square metre data centre in central Bangkok through a joint venture partnership with Thai industrial platform provider, TICON.
Boston Quattro 1396-T review: Twenty-four into three can go
A compact and affordable microserver that squeezes 24 server nodes into 3U of rack space, the Quattro 1396-T delivers huge gains in terms of space and energy efficiency but lacks scalability at the individual server level.
LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8120-4i review: Performance boost for servers with direct attached storage
With two high-performance memory modules onboard, this implementation of LSI's popular MegaRAID HBA uses flash to cache frequently accessed data, boosting storage performance without the upheaval or cost of switching from magnetic disk to SSD.
Dell PowerEdge VRTX review: A versatile server, storage and networking package
Take a blade server, add shared storage, PCI expansion and networking and you have the Dell PowerEdge VRTX. It's a surprisingly scalable yet affordable all-in-one system aimed at small businesses, but attracting interest well beyond its intended market.
Dell PowerEdge R520 review
It's not the most powerful or scalable 2U server in Dell's PowerEdge range, but the R520 is still a quick, capable and affordable dual-socket platform that can be configured to handle a variety of both datacentre and distributed office workloads.
Windows Server 2012: RTM review
Microsoft is looking ahead to a future of private and public clouds, where information is everything, and users can access it however they want. Is Microsoft's latest server OS up to the job?
Dell PowerEdge T620 review
The tower equivalent of the rack-mounted R720, Dell's PowerEdge T620 sports the same processor, RAM and management options plus even more flexible storage. It's a powerful and versatile platform that can cope with everything from standard file and print duties through distributed branch office applications to private cloud deployment.
Windows Server 2012 Essentials: Beta preview
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials was disappointing, but there's a lot to like in its successor, which provides a small file-and-print server with integrated systems management and backup tools that's ideal for a small business or a home office.
Dell PowerEdge T320
Dell has done a lot more than simply upgrade the PowerEdge T320 to the new Xeon E5-2400 processor. Memory and storage also get a huge boost, and there's optional iDRAC 7 management and an embedded hypervisor option, making this a real SME power platform.
Fujitsu Primergy RX300 S7
A big step up from the previous S6 model, the seventh iteration of the RX300 majors on performance and capacity, and can be used to run a wide range of datacentre applications.
Dell PowerEdge R720
With its Xeon E5-2600 processors, extra memory, extra storage and enhanced management options, the PowerEdge R720 is a real powerhouse that hits the sweet spot when it comes to the 2P2U server market.
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