August 15th, 2011 by lhaas                              

A Cloud that Can’t Leak

Imagine getting a friend’s advice on a personal problem and being safe in the knowledge that it would be impossible for your friend to divulge the question, or even his own reply.

Researchers at Microsoft have taken a step toward making something similar possible for cloud computing, so that data sent to an [...]

July 28th, 2011 by lhaas                              

IBM speeds storage with flash: 10B files in 43 minutes

With an eye toward helping tomorrow’s data-deluged organizations, IBM researchers have created a super-fast storage system capable of scanning in 10 billion files in 43 minutes.

This system handily bested their previous system, demonstrated at Supercomputing 2007, which scanned 1 billion files in three hours.

Key to the increased performance was the [...]

March 29th, 2011 by lhaas                              

Days of individual security over – CEO

People solely relying on patching and upgrades are leading themselves into a false sense of security and individual protection is no longer sufficient in the age of multi-vector attacks, according to the president of the Australian Internet Industry Association.

Most people rely on operating system and software updates – including security patches – [...]

January 21st, 2011 by lhaas                               1 comment

Amazon EC2 enables brute-force attacks on the cheap | Data security - InfoWorld

The cloud is proving itself a double-edged sword: It grants individuals and organizations with limited resources quick, inexpensive access to a wealth of computing power. That’s all well and good for a research organization crunching data to cure a debilitating disease or a developer who has authored the next big mobile app. But [...]

October 26th, 2010 by lhaas                              

Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office?

A post on Slashdot reads:

“I work in a small office with just two computers. Both machines run long-term-service releases of Ubuntu, with Gnome, and Evolution for scheduling, contact management and electronic mail. We plan to stick with Linux long-term. For telephone service, we’re using smartphones. In order to keep everything straight, we [...]

September 30th, 2010 by lhaas                              

For Small Businesses, Social Networking Poses New Security Risks - DarkReading

Social networking is a major vector for malicious software.

For about six hours on Tuesday, a small snippet of JavaScript code ran rampant among Twitter users. The code used a particular class of flaw to execute simple commands, including changing the color of the interface and posting itself to the users’ followers. Victims [...]

August 25th, 2009 by lhaas                              

Winkler: The Real Problems With Cloud Computing

Interesting… Should we be concerned with Cloud Hacking?

Winkler: The Real Problems With Cloud Computing.

July 21st, 2009 by lhaas                              

Why Twitter Hack is NOT a Cloud Security Wake-up Call

Why Twitter Hack is NOT a Cloud Security Wake-up Call.