I was a database administrator and developer for Adabas/Natural on IBM mainframes; Datatrieve Rdb on VAX/VMS; and the xBase database management system (DBMS) language family when I was much younger. It was some of the most painful work I’d ever … Continue reading →

Kevin Mitnick’s career began as a criminal hacker but ended too soon as the best-known white-hat hacker. I didn’t know Mitnick, the renowned hacker and cybersecurity expert, well. But I did know him well enough to know he was brilliant. … Continue reading →

Meta, better known to most of us as Facebook, has released a commercial version of Llama-v2, its open-source large language model (LLM) that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate text, images, and code. The first version of the Large Language…Read … Continue reading →

When Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s (RHEL) source code would no longer be easily available, it rocked the world of RHEL clones such as AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, and Rocky Linux. The fight was on! Oracle trash-talked Red … Continue reading →

Is there room for another hyper-cloud company? Market-leading content delivery network (CDN) power Akamai, after its purchase of Linode, a developer-friendly, Linux-based, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, believes so. Now, with the $900…Read More

Despite the public fascination with elaborate hacking methods in movie after movie, most security breaches don’t require Mission Impossible elite hacker teams. No good old social engineering and credential theft are the real threats. Password misuse…Read More