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Facebook rethinks its 'hackathons' with an eye toward mobile
Facebook is retooling its famous "hackathon" all-night coding workshops to give engineers more time to conceive new products, hopefully with a focus on mobile.
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DDOS attacks have increased in number and size this year
The volume, duration and frequency of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks used to flood websites and other systems with junk traffic have significantly increased during the first three months of this year, according to a report released Wednesday by Florida-based DDOS mitigation provider Prolexic.
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Objective-C's dip in popularity tied to decline in iPad and iPhone
The language used for Apple iOS app development drops a notch in Tiobe index
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AT&T hacker ?Weev? sentenced to 41 months for iPad leak
Alleged hacker Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer has been given an unforgiving prison sentence of 41 months for his part in the hugely embarrassing 2010 compromise of 114,000 iPad-using AT&T customers.
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JavaScript's popularity rankings vary widely
Indexes of programming languages say one thing, but GitHub's rankings tells a different story about JavaScript's popularity
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Oracle updates NetBeans for HTML5
With the release of version 7.3 of NetBeans, Oracle has updated the IDE (integrated developer environment) so Java developers can more easily build rich HTML5-based user interfaces for their mobile and Web applications.
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Android helps Java retake lead in language popularity race
Recent security problems aside, Java moves past C in Tiobe's language popularity index thanks to its ties to Android development
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Java exploit used in Red October cyberespionage attacks
The hundreds of government, military and research organisations targeted in a large-scale cyberespionage operation dubbed Red October were not only attacked using malicious Excel and Word documents as previously believed, but also by using Web-based Java exploits.
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Microsoft C# named programming language of 2012
Microsoft's C# has been crowned the number one programming language of the year by the PopularitY of Programming Language (PYPL) index.
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Malware is targeting Java HTTP servers
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have uncovered a piece of backdoor-type malware that infects Java-based HTTP servers and allows attackers to execute malicious commands on the underlying systems.
