"Bull" news, interviews, and features

News about Bull

• Antivirus test labs call out Chinese security company as cheat

  Chinese antivirus firm Qihoo 360 Technology today was censured by three major testing organizations for cheating on the evaluations.

• Event fosters software and STEM entrepreneurs for education

  About 100 educators, parents and technology pros converged last weekend at Crossroads Academy in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, for an event called Startup Weekend Education--KC.

• Microsoft slates critical Windows, IE fixes for next week

  Microsoft will release nine security updates next week, with fixes slated for Internet Explorer, Windows, SharePoint Server and Web app developer tools.

• Kenneth van Wyk: Why do we keep relearning the same security lessons again and again?

  Two recent vulnerabilities are examples of problems that could have been avoided if we had just applied the lessons already learned in similar contexts.

• Atos succeeds in bid to buy Bull, will boost security and cloud offerings

  The offer made in May has been approved by Bull shareholders

• Microsoft debuts personalized patch dashboard for IT pros

  Web-based myBulletins organizes security updates; gets a 'C' grade from one professional

Features about Bull

• The top 10 supercomputers in the world, 20 years ago

  The Top500 list from June 1995 shows just how far the possibilities of silicon have come in the past 20 years. Performance figures are listed ...

• Surprise patch KB 3005628 bodes ill for Microsoft's patching strategy

  Out-of-band patch, which fixes errors 0x800F0906 and 0x800F081F in .Net Framework 3.5, is a troubling disruption in Microsoft's patching strategy