A news Web site has been hit with a massive “trackback spam” attack, which saw 27,000 adult Web links posted to its site in a single day.
The Newsbreak Web site, based in the Phillipines, had to close the trackback feature of its site after the attack and manually delete the links. It is not known why the company was targeted, though the deluge is unlikely to have been anything other than deliberate.
While at the http://www.chicagoautoshow.com/ Chicago Auto Show, I had the opportunity to speak with Pontiac’s General Manager John Larson, who asked me what he had to do to get me into the new
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Today Red Hat announced that has joined the Vendor Interop Alliance, the group that Microsoft chartered with other top software companies, but which has not involved Red Hat to date.
Interestingly, as Matthew Aslett notes, Red Hat’s participation seems to be limited to its JBoss middleware, which already had partnered with Microsoft to improve interoperability. So what, if anything, does this agreement get Microsoft? Or Red Hat?
