With all the buzz currently in the industry about ‘cloud’ technology it’s worth keeping up to speed with industry certifications and, especially, ones which provide the core understanding for cloud based solutions.

Microsoft and its partner developers are gearing up for the release of the latest in their incarnation of web browser, Internet Explorer. This release, in the 15th year since IE 1, will be the 9th instalment of the much used (51% market share) browser.

Hot on the heels of our recent post about SSL certificates, I have read with interest another security story about the dangers of phishing. In case you have not come across it before, phishing is defined as “the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details [...]

Most web developers know that they should sanitize their web input. However recent figures from the UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010 indicate that 40 per cent of all website attacks are due to SQL injections. SQL injection attacks allow perpetrators to leak data, usually by making a web application perform a query it wasn’t [...]

I’ve been really excited about the potential of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6/CentOS6) and the beta has not let me down. Most of the more prominent features are laid out at the Redhat website but one of the things it neglects to mention is how much more access control it comes with.

Research firm TheInfoPro has revealed that hardware giant Dell is going from strength to strength after server spending dropped globally during the economic crisis. The report, released earlier this week, surveyed 252 decision makers from Fortune 1000 companies and considered the financial results of top hardware suppliers. Reporting a 61 per cent increase in server [...]

As H&M and Zara ready their online stores for a September release, they may be disappointed to hear that just 1 in 10 consumers go directly to a brand’s website when shopping online. After interviewing 2,000 online consumers, ecommerce trading solutions provider eCommera found that nearly half of consumers (42 per cent) prefer to buy [...]

As mentioned in the previous post on this months security bulletin releases, there are confirmed to be 14 security bulletins, addressing 34 vulnerabilities. Eight of those bulletins have a Critical severity rating, and four of those are considered to be high-priority deployments. Refer to this page for details on all updates released this month

At UKFast we are often asked about our business continuity plans. However, on many occasions this has to be pointed straight back at the questioner. We start by identifying every critical inward and outward facing business process and list it in order of criticality.  All the information assets involved in each process are identified and [...]

A couple of weeks ago the Linux Kernel 2.6.35 was officially released. For me, this release hasn’t been as exciting as say, 2.6.30 but one thing that whet my appetite was the support for distributed incoming network load. But what’s the fuss all about? Here I demonstrate how spreading incoming network I/O over multiple CPUs [...]