In the news: Code execution flaws in PHP; ESET finds malware that targets political activists; bluetooth vulnerability makes spying easy; and open source webmin had backdoor for more than a year;
The new DNS over HTTPS standard from the Internet Engineering Task Force is meant to eliminate some of the known vulnerabilities of the Domain Name System.
The open source Apache Cassandra database claims to be fail-safe, economical, highly scalable, and easy to manage. A few exercises show whether it lives up to its advertising.
Red Hat launched the brand new OpenShift 4 with a number of changes that might suggest upgrading or even getting your feet wet if you've stayed out of the pool so far.
Security segmentation into zones has long been the norm in data centers. Microsoft Azure Network Security Groups offers this kind of granular defense-in-depth security, including multilevel configuration of access rules.
