Databricks lays production data pipelines

Aiming to provide data engineers with new and better tools for creating production data pipelines, Databricks yesterday released Databricks for Data Engineering, a new version of its Apache Spark-based cloud platform optimized specifically for data engineering workloads. Databricks, founded by the creators of Apache Spark, already provides a version of the cloud platform geared toward…

Shadow Brokers dump contained Solaris hacking tools

After the Shadow Brokers group opened up its archive of exploits allegedly stolen from the United States National Security Agency, security experts found a nasty surprise waiting for Solaris administrators. The Register reported that the dumped Shadow Broker files reference two programs, Extremeparr and Ebbisland, that would let attackers obtain root access remotely over the network…