Topic: patching

SD Times Blog: Updating POSIX poses a problem

When Mischa Spiegelmock takes interest in something about the history of software, it’s best to just get out of his way. This was the case, yesterday, when he published a little blog he’d written about POSIX. The results of his experiment basically proves that the old ways of building democratized, community-driven software are completely ridiculous … continue reading

SD Times Blog: The Amazonian apocalypse, part 2 (updated)

It was only a few short months ago that a vulnerability in the Xen Hypervisor resulted in problems for Amazon’s EC2. We called it the Amazonian apocalypse then, and the time has come for its sequel. Last time, as you may recall, servers were chunked into sections and given windows during which they needed to … continue reading

Patch those bleeding hearts

Heartbleed was a bad bug, but there’s no need to over-react to it either … continue reading

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