The quintessential open-source network mapper, Nmap, was updated to version 7 yesterday. This version includes mature IPv6 support and expanded capabilities for its scripting engine. The biggest draw for security-wary developers and admins alike, however, may be the top-shelf SSL/TLS scanning. With SSL and TLS vulnerable to so many different attacks discovered over the past … continue reading
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has partnered with the FIDO Alliance in order to strengthen authentication across the Web. FIDO aims to address the lack of interoperability among authentication technologies. “Standardizing strong authentication in the Web Platform will help us to improve user and application security by moving beyond passwords,” said Wendy Seltzer, technology … continue reading
Microsoft has announced Visual Studio Code is now open sourced. VS Code is a new tool that aims to provide the simplicity of a code editor with necessary tools developers need for their core edit, build and debug cycle, according to the project’s GitHub page. It features editing and debugging support, an extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools. The project … continue reading
Docker continues to release additions to its software and infrastructure. On Nov. 16, the company announced new security enhancements that safeguard and protect Dockerized distributed applications—without impacting the developer’s workflow. Unveiled during the company’s keynote address at DockerCon EU, the security enhancements—built on top of the Docker Content Trust Framework—are around hardware signing of container … continue reading
Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows 10 build for mobile. Build 10586 has been released to Windows Insiders in the fast ring, and promises to fix a number of bugs from the previous build. In the previous build, Build 10581, there was a bug that partially corrupted a user’s file system after a factory … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the fourth technical preview of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016. The latest preview aims to strengthen Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to speed up hybrid datacenter solutions in a cloud-first world. “New apps and new features for apps drive business value, and that application-centric mindset means that you need to think differently … continue reading
The open-source programming language Julia is getting a boost from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The foundation has announced a U.S.$600,000 grant to help bring the programming language out of beta and to version 1.0. Julia is designed to eliminate the need for researchers to use multiple programming languages to perform computational analyses and … continue reading
Software teams for decades have hoped to build platforms in which they can construct software like Legos. Block upon block, infrastructure piece upon infrastructure piece, it is said, the future will enable us to piece together programs from smaller primitives and link them together as easily as clicking blocks into place. This, of course, is … continue reading
As a way to save enterprises time and money, InRule Technology has made an alternative available for writing business rules in code. InRule Technology is the provider of the InRule business rules management system (BRMS). Today it announced the availability of InRule for JavaScript, which according to a press release is a BRMS that can … continue reading
Test IO, formerly known as Testcloud, is coming to the United States. Test IO is a crowdsourced testing platform that has more than 20,000 testers checking apps and websites looking for bugs from every angle, according to the company. “Today’s economy is driven by mobile apps and software, and developers at startups all the way … continue reading
Google wants Android developers to build apps for Google Play. To help them, the company has announced the second edition of “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play,” a guide that helps developers improve the quality of their app, increase their audience engagement and retention, and earn more revenue. The updated guide provides new … continue reading
Perfecto Mobile, the market leading provider of high-quality digital and mobile experiences for enterprises, announces new integrations for mobile testing with Microsoft Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online. Perfecto’s tight integrations connect its cloud-based test lab, Continuous Quality Lab, to Microsoft’s developer tools to enable automated mobile web and app testing via the cloud. Enterprises can … continue reading
