Thursday, October 8th, 2009 VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.Sun today released VirtualBox 3.0.8, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.0 which improves stability and performance.Download:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/DownloadsChangeLog:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
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Monday, September 28th, 2009 In computer security, a lot of effort is spent on the authentication problem. Whether it's passwords, secure tokens, secret questions, image mnemonics, or something else, engineers are continually coming up with more complicated—and hopefully more secure—ways for you to prove you are who you say you are over the Internet.This ...
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009 During a recent talk with LogMeIn CEO Michael Simon, I learned about the company's new LogMeIn Central dashboard for IT managers, designed to help them keep tabs on thousands of computers at a time.I also heard about the new version of virtual network service Hamachi, which makes it a competitor ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009 Protecting the management account for cloud services can be one of the most critical security points of a cloud-based solution. Arguably, the account is more important than instance and operating system security for cloud workloads. Amazon web services (AWS) has recently introduced a new feature, Amazon web services multi-factor authentication ...
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 Criminals running an ATM card-skimming scam made a big mistake this week: They tried to hit the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas.As the conference was kicking off a few days ago, attendees noticed that at ATM placed in the Riviera Hotel, which plays host to the annual event, didn't ...
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