Scheduling means different things depending on the audience. To many in the business world, scheduling is synonymous with workflow management. Workflow management is the coordinated execution of a ...

Having worked on Hadoop since day one in 2006, Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy is clear about the significance of the latest version of the open-source big-data technology. "Hadoop 2 is a big step.

Attackers looking to increase the denial-service-power of their botnet have set their sights on servers with vulnerable Hadoop installations, compromising them via publicly available exploits.

A threat actor is targeting a common misconfiguration in Hadoop YARN and Apache Flink to try and drop Monero cyrptominers in environments running the two big data technologies. What makes the campaign ...

A Mirai variant has been discovered targeting unpatched Linux servers, shifting the use of the malicious payload beyond the internet of things (IoT), according to new research from NETSCOUT ASERT.

For nearly a month, a new botnet has been slowly growing in the shadows, feasting on unsecured Apache Hadoop servers, and planting bots on vulnerable servers to be used for future DDoS attacks. First ...