IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

pariax writes "So you wanna build your own massively distributed password cracking infrastructure?

An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers at Purewire have leveraged vulnerabilities in malware infrastructure to track the criminals behind it.

Krneki writes "I've been developing monitoring solutions for the last five years. I have used Cacti, Nagios, WhatsUP, PRTG, OpManager, MOM, Perl-scripts solutions, ...

Salesforce.com is trying to entice developers working inside the enterprise to its platform-as-a-service product by offering them a free first taste of Force.com.

ancientribe writes "The dirty little secret about patching routers is that many enterprises don't bother — for fear of the fallout any changes to their Cisco router software could have on the re

twistah writes "It seems that a recent 'reply-all storm' at the State Department caused the entire e-mail infrastructure to crash.

Yahoo, I've learned, is planning to launch a new program that essentially turns its email offering into a platform on which to run applications -- much in the same way Facebook does.

George Reese writes "It seems a lot of people are mistaking the very valuable benefit that cloud computing enables — dynamically scaling your infrastructure — with the potentially dangerou

Google spent just $452 million on equipment for its data centers, networks and other infrastructure in the third quarter, the lowest level since the first quarter of 2006, when Google spent $345 milli

Startups, unable to bear the brunt of online criminal activity, could start looking to cloud computing -- the providers of which have the capacity and infrastructure to survive an attack -- for salvat

jamie found a post laying to rest one potential criticism of Google's App Engine, that of the danger of lock-in to the platform.

Adobe has decided to jump on the free consumer service bandwagon with the release of its new Photoshop Express online photo organizer and photo editor.

Just like Dell used its supply chain to keep ahead of the competition, Google is using its infrastructure to constantly increase its web presence.