News about security breaches affecting major companies is now becoming commonplace. Just two days ago, hackers posted sensitive information about users of Ashley Madison. Now Toronto-based telecom vendor Level 3 Communications has revealed a new
Published on: August 21st, 2015
Wolston Lobo
@WolstonL
Security experts are flagging a new bug in Bash, a type of popular Linux software, saying it could be more dangerous to users than Heartbleed. Bash, which is used to control the command
Published on: September 25th, 2014
Candice So
@candice_so
IBM is signalling a move away from Unix support and towards a full embrace of Linux, announcing today at LinuxCon in New Orleans that it plans to funnel $1 billion USD on the
Say the word "privacy," and most of us think of online privacy--along with the never-ending battle against spyware, tracking, and other opponents of the cause. What many people don't realize, however, is that
Published on: March 9th, 2012
Katherine Noyes
@itbusinessca
As free and open source software continues to become more powerful and more prevalent, there's less and less need to choose anything else. It's not at all surprising, for example, to see the
Published on: March 8th, 2012
Katherine Noyes
@itbusinessca
Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the Cprogramming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.Ritchie (known by the username "dmr") was part of a dynamic
Published on: October 13th, 2011
Bob Brown
@itbusinessca
With the arrival of Ubuntu 10.10, the list of reasons to try Linux for your business just got a little longer. The free and open source operating system is now more user-friendly than
Published on: October 15th, 2010
Katherine Noyes
@itbusinessca
Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a
Here's the final instalment of our comprehensive feature on new capabilities you can add to your Windows PC to make your experience on it both exciting and profitable. And while you're about it
Published on: September 2nd, 2008
Robert Strohmeyer
@itbusinessca
Love it or hate it, Microsoft Windows is the world's most dominant operating system. But when you look at some of the hot features found in competitors such as Linux and Mac OS
Published on: August 19th, 2008
Robert Strohmeyer
@itbusinessca
