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Adobe got hacked and about 150 million people’s account details have been leaked. You should be aware that the passwords are encrypted with a single key using a symmetric and reversible algorithm.   This means when anyone figures out the key to decrypt the passwords, they'll be able to decrypt every single password on the list, no matter how strong or random your password was.   So far no one has been able to reverse-engineer the Adobe decryption key, but it's probably a matter of time.   This could all have been avoided if Adobe had used a cryptographic hash function.

Red Hat has integrated OpenStack with the new version of Red Hat CloudForms ( 3.0 ), which helps manage public, private, and hybrid clouds. It also announced several new efforts in support of the company's open hybrid cloud vision, including beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, advancements to drive OpenShift by Red Hat on OpenStack, and a preview of OpenStack-M.

GCC developers from multiple companies are beginning to reach agreement that it's time for Java to be turned off by default in GCC. The Java compiler support in GCC is in the form of GCJ, but it doesn't see much active development these days with more of the Java work happening in OpenJDK. Developers are looking to disable Java from the default GCC build process but to potentially replace it with the Go or ADA languages.  With the open-source Java toolchain development having shifted from GCJ to OpenJDK years ago, Jeff Law of Red Hat characters the current state of Java in GCC as "moved from active development into a deep maintenance mode." GCJ seldom sees new development work and its usage isn't great either, but as of right now it's still built by default when compiling GCC.  Jeff Law volleyed a mailing list thread on Friday entitled  Replace Java with Go in default languages . So far GCC developers from various companies seem to be in agreement on dropping ...

Google this week rolled out a new Google+ security feature for organizations intended to help them keep certain conversations private from the larger Web. Much like Microsoft's Yammer, Google+ restricted communities will only allow access to approved employees. "Whether it's designs of your beta product or notes from your team off-site, anything you post will remain restricted to the organization," Google+ product manager Michael Cai wrote in a blog post. Community administrators can decide whether the site will remain open to everyone at the company, or kept private by invitation only. Google+ also allows for people outside of your domain — clients, agencies, business partners — to join the conversation.

Twitter  is a young company generating large losses as it competes in a highly uncertain sector of the economy. And that is exactly why investors clamored for a piece of its initial public offering, which closed on Wednesday evening. Twitter’s shares were priced at $26, giving the company an overall value of $18.1 billion, including stock that the company is likely to issue to employees. That makes Twitter worth more than many storied American corporations, like Alcoa and Harley-Davidson. At that valuation, each of Twitter’s 230 million users around the world is worth $78. Going by such numbers, the public offering has been a tremendous success for the company, which raised $1.8 billion from the offering, a hefty war chest. All this is impressive for a company that has racked up more than $300 million of losses in the last three years — and may not show real profits until 2015. But investors are betting that Twitter is virtually destined to become wildly p...