Docker: The first true devops tool?
Docker has attracted a lot of attention lately, with major vendors contributing to the containerization technology. The company is venturing into acquisitions, services like StackDock.com and Drone.io...
View ArticleFour reasons to stick with Java, and four reasons to dump it
Java remains a critical technology that attracts intense interest and passion, as testified by the droves of developers gathered in San Francisco this week for JavaOne, the industry’s major event...
View ArticleDukeScript: A safer way to 'write once, run anywhere'
DukeScript: 'Write once, run anywhere' without the Java Plug-inCreated by NetBeans co-founder Jaroslav Tulach, DukeScript is a cross-platform mobile, web, and desktop rendering technology that seeks...
View ArticleOver 30 vulnerabilities found in Google App Engine
Serious vulnerabilities exist in Google App Engine (GAE), a cloud service for developing and hosting Web applications, a team of security researchers has found. The vulnerabilities could allow an...
View ArticleCritical vulnerability in Git clients puts developers at risk
A critical vulnerability in client software used to interact with Git, a distributed revision control system for managing source code repositories, allows attackers to execute rogue commands on...
View ArticleJava focuses on modularity, real-time apps in 2015
It's full speed ahead for modular and real-time Java efforts early in the new year.Interviewed at a Silicon Valley Java User Group meeting late last week, Ben Evans, a member of the Java Community...
View ArticleCritical Java updates fix 19 vulnerabilities, disable SSL 3.0
Oracle released new security updates for Java to fix 19 vulnerabilities and disable default support for SSL 3.0, an outdated version of the secure communications protocol that is vulnerable to...
View ArticleThe state of open source security
If there’s a poster child for the challenges facing open source security, it may be Werner Koch, the German developer who wrote and for the last 18 years has toiled to maintain Gnu Privacy Guard...
View ArticleOracle to end publicly available security fixes for Java 7 this month
Public updates for Java 7 -- including bug and security fixes -- will end this month, a situation that one security advocate says could impact millions of applications."As outlined in the Oracle JDK...
View ArticleJava at 20: The programming juggernaut rolls on
What began as an experiment in consumer electronics in the early 1990s celebrates its 20th anniversary as a staple of enterprise computing this week. Java has become a dominant platform, able to run...
View ArticleJava at 20: Its successes, failures, and future
Although Java was developed at Sun Microsystems, Oracle has served as the platform's steward since acquiring Sun in early 2010. During that time, Oracle has released Java 7 and Java 8, with version 9...
View ArticleOracle fixes zero-day Java flaw and over 190 other vulnerabilities
Go ahead and update Java -- or disable it if you don't remember the last time you actually used it on the Web: Oracle's latest patch, released Tuesday, fixes 25 vulnerabilities in the aging platform,...
View Article9 ways developers can rebuild trust on the Internet
The Internet is a pit of epistemological chaos. As Peter Steiner posited -- and millions of chuckles peer-reviewed -- in his famous New Yorker cartoon, there's no way to know if you're swapping...
View ArticleMicroservices: Simple servers, complex security
The benefits of microservices architecture -- smaller development teams, faster release cycles, fewer dependencies, less risk -- are becoming widely known, thanks to companies like Amazon, Google, and...
View ArticleOracle fixes critical flaws in Database Server, MySQL, Java
Oracle fixed 154 vulnerabilities in its latest Critical Patch Update release, eight of which were in Oracle Database Server, 30 in MySQL, and 25 in Java SE. Oracle said 84 of the vulnerabilities fixed...
View ArticleDevelopers weigh JSON, security proposals for Java EE 8
Java EE (Enterprise Edition) 8 is not due until 2017, but given the multitude of proposals Oracle is considering for inclusion, the company will need all that time to sort out the revision. For now,...
View ArticleThe 6 hottest new jobs in IT
When CompTIA conducted an intensive examination of the IT employment market last year, it uncovered demand for jobs whose titles would have been meaningless only a year or two ago: augmented reality...
View ArticleTwo-year-old Java flaw re-emerges due to broken patch
A patch for a critical Java flaw released by Oracle in 2013 is ineffective and can be easily bypassed, security researchers warn. This makes the vulnerability exploitable again, paving the way for...
View ArticleNode.js alert: Google engineer finds flaw in NPM scripts
Never assume a file downloaded from the Internet is safe. That warning also applies to NPM, the default package manager for Node.js. A vulnerability in package install scripts would let an attacker...
View ArticleQ&A: JavaScript creator Brendan Eich puts Brave face on the Web.
Best known as the creator of JavaScript and a co-founder of Mozilla, Brendan Eich these days has moved on to a new project. He is CEO of Brave Software, which wants to “build a better Web” that puts...
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