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The programs with the most security vulnerabilities in 2014 were not the ones you think Summary: Google Chrome, Oracle Solaris and Gentoo Linux all beat Microsoft's Internet Explorer in having the most vulnerabilities last year, according to Secunia, while IBM software took 40 percent of the Top 20 places. Secunia recorded 15,435 software vulnerabilities in 3,870 applications during 2014, according to its annual  Vulnerability Review 2015 , released this week. This represented an 18 percent increase in vulnerabilities and a 22 percent increase in programs compared with 2013. But if you asked people to name the programs with the most vulnerabilites, they probably wouldn't get them right... unless they'd read an earlier Secunia report. Google Chrome headed the list with 504 vulnerabilities, followed by Oracle Solaris (483), Gentoo Linux (350) and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (289). Apple's Mac OS X placed 13th with 147 vulnerabilities, with Microsoft...

Samsung Business launched to tap into IoT, enterprise market Summary: The company's new, dedicated brand will bring together Internet of Things devices and enterprise users. Samsung has launched Samsung Business, an umbrella brand which will further the development of an enterprise-based Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. On Monday, the South Korean electronics giant announced the  creation of Samsung Business , a dedicated brand which unifies the firm's end-to-end business portfolio. In a keynote at CeBIT 2015 in Hannover, Germany, President and Chief Marketing Officer of Samsung Electronics Won-Pyo Hong said the new brand will bring together services including Samsung's KNOX security platform and Samsung SMART Signage solutions, as part of the company's plans to delve further into the corporate market and offer enterprise-ready technological solutions to clients. Samsung Business  has launched with six "experimental" zones, ranging across...

HP launches hyperscale Cloudline servers, aims for white box market Summary: HP launched a family of servers with minimalist designs as a result of its partnership with Foxconn. Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday launched a new set of servers designed for hyperscale cloud providers, who prefer white box gear. The server family, called Cloudline, is the result of a joint venture with Hon Hai's Foxconn. CEO Meg Whitman alluded to the Foxconn partnership during HP's first quarter earnings conference call. Whitman said that HP is looking to partner and play in the market for servers from original design manufacturers. So-called ODM servers are moving up the market share charts. Previously:  Do server vendors have an answer for the white box trend? HP announced Cloudline at the Open Compute Summit. What HP is trying to do is thread the needle between offering ODM servers and surrounding them with support and scale. Cloudline is also an acknowledgement that enterprises may u...

No reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0 Summary: With the new Linux 4.0 kernel, you'll need to reboot Linux less often than ever. With  Linux 4.0 , you may never need to reboot your operating system again. Using Linux means never having to reboot.  -- SUSE One reason to love Linux on your servers or in your data-center is that you so seldom needed to reboot it. True, critical patches require a reboot, but you could go months without rebooting. Now, with the latest changes to the Linux kernel you may be able to go years between reboots. This is actually a feature that was available in Linux in 2009 thanks to a program called  Ksplice . This program compares the original and patched kernels and then uses a customized kernel module to patch the new code into the running kernel. Each Ksplice-enabled kernel comes with a special set of flags for each function that will be patched. The  Ksplice process  then watches for a moment when the code for the fun...