Woes mount for Microsoft's March Black Tuesday patches

Dumped by Pivotal, Groovy moves to Apache Tableau adds new enticements to its free data visualization tool

TechBrief March 12, 2015 Woes mount for Microsoft Netlogon patch KB 3002657, SHA-2 signing patch KB 3033929 This month's Black Tuesday was packed with patches, and the situation's become more complex overnight. Many problems with KB 3002657 are now surfacing -- difficulties that aren't confined to the issues with EMC Isilon clusters I reported yesterday. There's also Security Advisory 3033929, with an associated SHA-2 signing patch that affects all Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 customers, as well as a report that KB 3033395 isn't installing on Server 2003 R2 with Exchange 2007. Also read: Problems reported with Microsoft patch KB 3002657, warning issued on KB 3046049 READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Dumped by Pivotal, Groovy moves to Apache 2. Tableau adds new enticements to its free data visualization tool 3. Google's new Chromebook Pixel features excellent battery life, USB Type-C ports 4. Security testing compliance down from last year White Paper: Solutionary The MSSP Advantage Read this Whitepaper that reveals an IDG study that shows how leading edge organizations are turning increasingly to managed security service providers (MSSPs) to keep both hackers and malware at bay. LEARN MORE Dumped by Pivotal, Groovy moves to Apache With Pivotal about to pull funding for Groovy, the dynamic language project is moving over to the Apache Software Foundation. Groovy has been formally submitted to Apache and is on a path to becoming a top-level project, Apache said. Pivotal has prioritized around its Cloud Foundry PaaS platform, project lead Guillaume Laforge said in an email, and this has left Groovy and the accompanying Grails Web development framework on the outside looking in. Also read: Groovy: The road map for the popular JVM language And: Pivotal goes all-in with open source in Big Data Suite READ MORE Tableau adds new enticements to its free data visualization tool The Web-based version of Tableau's analytics system allows data visualizations to be published, reused, and embedded in Web pages as if they were YouTube videos. But the full product comes at a sizable cost: $1,000 per user and up. The newest version of Tableau's free Web-based offering, Tableau Public, expands its appeal with new tools and data sets -- and defends against competing products with smaller price tags. Also read: 8 big trends in big data analytics READ MORE : BMC Software Five Key Elements of Complete IT Compliance In the past, the needs of the business have often overruled the requirements of compliance, but in light of recent security breaches and compliance failures, this attitude is no longer an option. Organizations must modernize their approach to compliance and close the SecOps gap with a strategy designed for today’s complex, dynamic IT environments. LEARN MORE Google's new Chromebook Pixel features excellent battery life, USB Type-C ports Google's original Chromebook Pixel strode boldly toward a brighter, more Web-centric world -- and left most of us behind, unfortunately. Google's new Pixel still tries to lead the way, but with apps and services to help justify its updated, premium hardware. Check out the review: 6 business-class Chromebooks test their mettleREAD MORE Security testing compliance down from last year Compliance rates between audits increased substantially across all PCI DSS requirements except for security testing, according to a report released by Verizon.The average increase was 18 percentage points, the report said, with 20 percent of companies validated as compliant in their interim reports, up from just 11 percent in 2013 and 7.5 percent in 2012. Also read: Where PCI compliance fails: Security testing, network monitoringREAD MORE White Paper: BMC Software Intelligent Compliance: Trust in the Data Center With the average cost of a data breach reaching $3.5 million, the pressure is intense to maintain the security and compliance of your data center. Discover how your organization may be at risk and how you can protect your data center from costly and highly visible breaches. Read the whitepaper today to put the trust back into your data center. LEARN MORE