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Criminal server uncovered

Patricia Pieterse
By Patricia Pieterse, iWeek assistant editor
Johannesburg, 08 May 2008

Criminal server uncovered

Researchers last month stumbled across a server run by cyber-criminals that contained 1.4GB of stolen business and personal data from 40 businesses around the world, says Darkreading.

Finjan Software researchers found compromised data from patients and bank customers as well as business e-mail messages and stolen Outlook accounts and messages on the Malaysia-based server, which has since been shut down.

The server had been running for just three weeks before it was found by Finjan and the data was stolen from victims in the US, Germany, France, India, England, Spain, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey.

SpringSource releases Java server

SpringSource, maker of the Spring Framework for Java development, is releasing a new application server that it claims will "liberate" Java users from "antiquated legacy Java technologies," reports Computerworld.

Dubbed the SpringSource Application Platform, the server combines Spring technologies and the Apache Tomcat server with the increasingly popular OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative) framework for Java development.

OSGi "enables a more dynamic, less constricted Java" because it enables applications to load modules of Java classes on demand, RedMonk analyst James Governor wrote in a recent blog post. "There is no need to load the entire Java stack to run an application, just the runtime services it actually requires," he said.

Virtualisation saves the planet

VMware claims its virtualisation solutions are saving customers tons in costs and CO2 emissions, says Fox Business.

For every server virtualised, customers can save about 7 000 kilowatt hours (kWh), or four tons of CO2 emissions, every year.

VMware has virtualised more than 6 million server workloads since 1998, resulting in an estimated energy savings of nearly 39 billion kWh, or roughly $4.4 billion.

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