A script kiddie with the username maxymax tried to include a backdoor in WordPress by modifying a file within the twentyeleven theme on the WordPress Github repository. The file was heavily modified to include references to "Saudi Sh31l v1.0". They then initiated a pull request, asking that their changes be accepted into the core code. … [Read more...]
Illinois Gigabit Challenge applicants published
Google and Kansas City are living pretty large right now with their gigabit Internet offerings recently announced. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced the Illinois Gigabit Challenge in his State of the State announcement this year to provide $4 million to the best proposal to build out a gigabit fiber network by the end of 2013. The applicants of the Illinois Gigabit … [Read more...]
Google will live stream Google Fiber announcement 11AM Central Time
The Google Fiber site has been updated to a Save the Date announcement for at least the past week. Tomorrow the announcement will be known and hopefully we will see some more details on Google's project to deliver high-speed broadband access to Kansas City, Kansas. For those that may not remember, Kansas City was finally chosen after a long deliberation period by Google with … [Read more...]
What’s coming from Google Summer of Code 2012?
Google Summer of Code has been around since 2005. In the program, Google partners with open source software projects and technology-based groups to fund students interested in working on real world software development for three months. Students gain good experience and advising from mentors while the tech groups get specific projects developed while increasing the developer … [Read more...]
Update your applications in the spirit of International Technology Upgrade Week
Skype, Adobe, TomTom, Norton and other companies have gotten on board with International Technology Upgrade Week. The main mantra of the event seems to be that software maintenance isn't that big of a deal when you consider you regularly do home maintenance, car maintenance, yard maintenance, and even beard maintenance. Many of those can cost a pretty penny and take up a good … [Read more...]