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How to protect your Unix, Linux and Mac servers Summary:  The Unix/Linux Bash security hole can be deadly to your servers. Here's what you need to worry about, how to see if you can be attacked, and what to do if your shields are down. The only thing you have to fear with Shellshock, the Unix/Linux Bash security hole, is fear itself. Yes, Shellshock can serve as a highway for worms and malware to hit your Unix, Linux, and Mac servers, but you can defend against it. If you don't patch and defend yourself against Shellshock today, you may have lost control of your servers by tomorrow. However, Shellshock is not as bad as  HeartBleed . Not yet, anyway. While it's true that the  Bash shell  is the default command interpreter on most Unix and Linux systems and all Macs — the majority of Web servers — for an attacker to get to your system, there has to be a way for him or her to actually get to the shell remotely. So, if you're running a PC without  s

Can anyone stop Xiaomi while it ups the ante in India? Summary:  With rock-bottom prices for phones that have superior specs in their class to begin with, Xiaomi is redefining what value for money means in India. The Redmi 1S and the Redmi Note (Image: Xiaomi) Having fought one particularly ferocious border war in 1962, and tangled over numerous other border incidents in just this decade alone, Indian-Chinese relationships are never less than testy at any given time. Given that China is Pakistan's ally, while India is host to the Dalai Lama, head of the Tibetan government in exile, which set up shop in the Indian mountain town of Dharamshala in the state of Himachal Pradesh in the 1950s, there is no love lost between these neighbours. Plus, China is forever trying to expand and exert its influence in India's backyard in areas like Burma and Sri Lanka, which drives India bananas. While both nations will dictate much of what the world buys and sells, thanks to th

Microsoft pulls OneDrive for Business update Summary:  There is no timeline for re-release and no explanation of the problem. This was a non-security update. Microsoft also updated CHAT features in Outlook.com along with this update. Microsoft has  pulled a non-security update  for OneDrive for Business that it released on Tuesday. A notice in  the update's KB article  says "We are investigating an issue that is affecting the September 2014 update for Microsoft OneDrive for Business. Therefore, we have removed the update from availability for now. We apologize for any inconvenience that this might cause." There is no indication of the nature of the issue, nor any suggestion that users should uninstall the update. The consumer version of OneDrive is unaffected. The update itself included "stability and performance improvements" for the OneDrive for Business client program for Windows. The KB article describes an error message for a bug the update fixes

Intel releases first Core M processors for business-class convertible PCs Summary:  It's taken longer than expected, but Intel has finally officially released the first CPUs using its Broadwell architecture. The new processors enable the holy grail of mobile computing: full PC power in a completely fanless package. After more than a year of frustrating delays, Intel has finally unveiled its first CPUs using the new Broadwell architecture. Broadwell, which succeeds the current Haswell family, uses a 14-nanometer manufacturing process that has given Intel’s engineers fits. The new CPU family was originally slated to debut in 2013, but was pushed back repeatedly after manufacturing problems. Those issues, which affected production yields, have finally been ironed out, and the new products are finally ready to ship. Today’s product announcements are just the first in what will eventually be a wave of CPUs using the Broadwell architecture. The Core M processors will b