Create your own free news widgets.

SYS-CON Events announced today that Eric Baldeschwieler, VP Hadoop Software Development at Yahoo!, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 - 4, 2009. His session is entitled "Hadoop @ Yahoo - Internet Scale Data Processing." Yahoo! is running the largest Hadoop clusters in the world - 25K+ servers, analyzing billions of Web pages, multiple petabytes of storage and billions of records per day.read more

BONITA, Calif., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- What is the next thing for Social Networking? Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and their competitors let you find friends, build brands, and form groups. But a newer site lets you do those things, plus monopolize a chunk

The most trusted websites, such as search engines, mainstream news sites and some blogs, are increasingly at risk of hosting malicious links that pass malicious code to their visitors, according to the latest data collected by researchers with IBM's X-Force security team.

On today's segment of 'Pack Pride Radio,' hosts Dave Nathan and James Henderson discuss NC State's situation at quarterback and tailback as the season opener is just days away.

There has been a 508 percent increase in the number of new malicious Web links discovered in the first half of 2009, according to IBM's X-Force 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report. The report found an increase in the presence of malicious content on trusted sites, including search engines, blogs, bulletin boards, personal websites, online magazines and mainstream news sites. Kris Lamb X-Force Director The level of web exploits, especially in PDF files are at an all time high indicating the increased sophistication of attackers. PDF vulnerabilities seen in the first of 2009 surpassed all those detected in 2008. "The trends highlighted by the report seem to indicate that the Internet has finally taken on the characteristics of the Wild West where no one is to be trusted," said X-Force Director Kris Lamb. "There is no such thing as safe browsing today and it is no longer the case that only the red light district sites are responsible for malware. We've reached a tipping po

Google is sharing some interesting statistics on malware, such as the number of entries on the Google Safe Browsing Malware List that have occurred over the last twelve months, and search results containing a URL labeled as harmful. "We're glad to share this sort of data because we believe that collaboration and information sharing are crucial in driving anti-malware efforts forward," says Niels Provos of Google's Security Team. Number of Entries on the Google Safe Browsing Malware List "As we mentioned in our Top-10 Malware Sites blog post, we have seen a large increase in the number of compromised sites since April," says Provos. "The number of entries on our malware list has more than doubled in one year, and we have seen periods in which 40,000 web sites were compromised per week. However, compared to infections associated with Gumblar and Martuz — two relatively large and well-known pieces of malicious code, many compromised web sites now

Since Facebook’s design team posted some before-and-after screenshots of today’s design tweaks, there has been some speculation about the existence of an “Outside World” News Feed filter that has a labs-style icon. Could Facebook be testing a FriendFeed-style feed aggregator so that users could consume any web content inside the Facebook stream? Facebook says that is [...]

Bit.ly is the leading link shortening service, being the default one on Twitter's website. This week on bit.ly's blog, they pointed out some recent integrations from around the web, where their API is in use. Google Reader is using bit.ly in their new "send-to" feature, which lets users share posts on Twitter with bit.ly URLs. Typepad added a feature that generates bit.ly links on Twitter for new blog posts, CBS started using "cbs.bit.ly" for news and video content, and a Mozilla developer created a "retweet" button using bit.ly. YFrog, a service, which is growing in popularity, and lets users share images and video on Twitter, is going to be the next one to join forces with bit.ly to "streamline link and media sharing" on social media sites, as a spokesperson for YFrog puts it. Within the next few weeks, bit.ly will roll out a media upload feature, powered by YFrog/Imageshack, that let's users easily upload and share photos from the bit.ly h

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 26, 2009 - Provider of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Windows and Linux, R1Soft, has introduced the Mini-Elite Hosting License, offering cost savings for web hosting providers to utilize CDP technology to grow businesses. David Wartell, vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies, Inc. noted, ''Mini-Elite represents the first time we've ever opened the door to providing capacity for such a large number of backups for a low monthly fee. For new customers, we're creating an opportunity to take advantage of our high-performance data protection technologies without making a large initial investment or committing to a certain number of servers. It's a virtually unlimited revenue-generating opportunity for web hosts.'' Available only through the end of September, the Mini-Elite Hosting License provides a flat-rate subscription access to CDP backup technology, enabling Web hosts to sell backup s

Learn what web hosting features are important when choosing a web hosting provider.