According to the Tampa Bay Business Journal, a DBA allegedly stole 2.3 million customer records: 2.2 million bank account records and 99,000 credit card records. This hits a little close to home because it's Certegy Check Services, Inc which is a subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Systems (FNIS). I worked for Certegy for several years and left just last March.

Blog: Auctioneer owns minority stake in Craigslist but that won't stop it from competing with Web's No.1 classified Web site.

The Slackware Linux team this week released stable v12.0 of its Linux distribution. Slackware Linux v12.0 boasts a 2.6.21.5 kernel, a KDE 4.5.6 default desktop environment, the latest modular X11 Window System, and numerous other advanced features.

More details are now available on the hacking of the Microsoft UK Web site, with experts saying that the attackers got in through a SQL injection exploiting a vulnerability in the Web server software.

The records of nearly 2.3 million consumers have been exposed after an employee of a Fidelity National Information Services subsidiary stole the information and then proceeded to sell it to a data broker.

Dojo 0.9 has been released in beta. This is a brand new Dojo, and a very exciting time for the project: SPEED: Stripped of all ‘excessive’, redundant, and backwards-compatible code, the new Dojo core is a speed-demon. It consists of a streamlined, compact Base (aka: dojo.js) which provides a plethora of reliable features for you [...]

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Mohammad Akif introduces the concepts behind .NET 3.0 that architects need to understand. Mohammad walks through the basics of Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Workflow Foundation and Windows Card Spaces.

Iain McDonald, a guy with the humble title of Director of Project Management for Windows Server, has had a long and deep impact on Microsoft's Windows organization. The 15-year Microsoft veteran has served on a variety of teams, from Product Support Services, to Exchange Server, to Windows Server. He was a leader on Windows 2000, ran the "War Room" for Windows XP and has been a key leader on every recent Windows release. On May 15, the day that Microsoft officially announced the "Windows Server 2008" product name, McDonald blogged about the end of the Whistler/Longhorn/Blackcomb era of Windows codenames: "I do have to say that the Longhorn name going away is a little sad to me – it’s the...

Blog: A Mexican financial Web site says that, with an estimated net worth of more than $67 billion, tycoon Carlos Slim has overtaken the Microsoft chairman as the world's richest man.