Researchers have discovered a new malware attack campaign that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink, two technologies for processing big data sets and data streams. The attackers ...

The quest to replace Hadoop’s aging MapReduce is a bit like waiting for buses in Britain. You watch a really long time, then a bunch come along at once. We already have Tez and Spark in the mix, but ...

A new report released today by researchers at cloud-native security company Aqua Security Software Ltd. warns of a new attack targeting Apache Hadoop and Flink applications. The attack is described as ...

A threat actor is targeting organizations running Apache Hadoop and Apache Druid big data technologies with a new version of the Lucifer botnet, a known malware tool that combines cryptojacking and ...

Code submitted this week for inclusion in the Hadoop stack will help speed the spread of the distributed big-data platform, according to Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy. The submission of the ...

Imagine it’s 3 a.m. and your pager goes off. A downstream service is failing, and after an hour of debugging you trace the issue to a tiny, undocumented schema change made by an upstream team. The fix ...

Streaming is one of the top trends we've been keeping up with. The latest episode in that saga was adding ACID capabilities to Apache Flink, as covered by ZDNet's Tony Baer last week. This ...

The data streaming company Confluent Inc. today introduced the latest version of flagship platform Confluent Cloud, with the headlines features aimed at simplifying and securing deployments of the ...