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AWS is still the web’s biggest malware host
AWS has something of a malware problem, with the number of infected websites hosted on its cloud more than doubling in the last six months. NTT’s subsidiary Solutionary revealed the findings in its latest Security Engineering Research Team (SERT) report on Tuesday. It said that among the top ten ISPs and hosting companies, the proportion ...
Google Earth’s aerial imagery is now on sale to business users
We’ve all wasted time virtually cruising around the planet when we’re bored, thanks to Google Earth. Now, Google is making some of its high-resolution images available for businesses to use for the first time. Imagery from the United States is now available to buy through Google Maps for Business. According to the Mountainview company, customers ...
Citrix announces preview of next-gen XenServer
Citrix has just released a technical preview of “Creedence”, code-name for the next version of XenServer, that might just be able to give the company a leg up in the virtualization stakes. The release could be just in the nick of time for Citirx, coming just a day after Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for ...
Rackspace rolls out managed cloud services
Rackspace has finally decided to give its customers a helping hand, with the launch of a “managed” service for those who want to benefit from its cloudy expertise. According to Rackspace’s blog post on the announcement, it’s “targeting businesses and developers who want to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of running ...
VMware, Microsoft still rule the server virtualization roost
Gartner’s magic quadrant for the virtualization market shows that VMware is once again way out in front, while the likes of Citrix and Red Hat have been left trailing in its wake as “niche players”. This year there’s only two companies sitting in the leader’s quadrant – that’s VMware of course, and Microsoft. In the ...
Microsoft says bad passwords are a good idea
Microsoft has turned best password safety practices on their head with a new study which argues that, contrary to popular wisdom, sometimes you do need to use bad passwords, and you should reuse these on multiple websites. Reusing passwords has become haram in the eyes of most web security experts. That’s because the logical assumption ...
How Microsoft’s Cortana used Big Data to predict the FIFA World Cup
Celebrity Big Data scientist Nate Silver can step aside. And so can Paul the Octopus (anyone remember him?) for that matter. There’s a new god of football predictions in town, and it goes by the name of Cortana. Microsoft’s answer to Siri successfully predicted the outcome of all 15 games of the elimination stage of ...
Evolving IT security: Digital Risk Officers to emerge by 2017
The rapid pace of technological evolution represents a massive challenge for companies whose operations are based on a digital business model. In order to manage risk and shore up security, we’re going to see a new trend of CEOs introducing Digital Risk Officers (DROs) to take on such challenges. Gartner highlights this trend in its ...
IBM adds Elastic Storage to its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure
IBM is revamping the way it does cloud storage. Having already committed some $1.2 billion to establish data centers for rent in every country where it needs them, Big Blue is now offering a new hardware/software/storage capability for cloud and hybrid users that it says can lead to 90 percent savings. Key to all of ...
Password managers hacked: Researchers find ‘critical’ vulnerabilities
If you’re using a popular password manager your credentials might not be entirely safe, following the discovery of several vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to gain access. University of California Berkeley researchers have discovered a number of quickly-patched vulnerabilities in LastPass, My1Login, NeedMyPassword, PasswordBox and RoboForm. They described their work as a “wake-up call” for ...