More views on cloud computing security

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In separate phone conversations we covered most of the two companies' offerings and today we'll take a look at how they feel about cloud computing and authentication. Read full story Related News: Nasty banking Trojan makes mules of victims A sophisticated Trojan horse program designed to empty bank accounts has a new trick up its sleeve: It lies to investigators about where the money is going. FBI says trio of terrorism e-mails are bunk The FBI today warned that three separate e-mails making the rounds that promise access to FBI terrorism reports are nothing more than malicious software looking to steal your personal information.   The three scam-mails are:  Review: HP blade takes a stab at Cisco HP has an alternative to the many security appliances that combine firewall, intrusion detection and VPN functions: Just put a single blade in the vendor's ProCurve switch and be done with it. HP security blade scores impressive performance results for UDP traffic Want to get the highest possible performance out of your security device? Make sure it only handles connectionless UDP traffic – the stuff that, according to studies from CAIDA and other sources – makes up less than 5 percent of traffic on Internet backbones. Gmail, Yahoo Mail join Hotmail; passwords exposed Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were also hit by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that snagged at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail. Bitbucket's downtime is a cautionary cloud tale Bitbucket's weekend troubles with Amazon's cloud services are instructive, but don't necessarily indicate a problem with cloud security. After attacks, Adobe patches now come faster Hackers like Adobe Systems, and now the company knows it all too well. 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Visit this site today!   October 07, 2009 MOST-READ STORIES Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's For sale: Cisco data center rival Brocade Apple may take Woolworths to court over similar logo 10 seriously ridiculous hacks Cisco releases IOS 15.0 Review: HP blade takes a stab at Cisco 15 genius algorithms that aren't boring 500 words too taxing? Does the 'T' in MIT stand for Tweet? Sprint likes multiple mobile operating systems Nortel could offload Metro Ethernet unit to Ciena Identity Management E Guide Identity management cannot be ignored – it is the key to preventing data breaches. This Network World Executive Guide provides in-depth information on today's most pressing security issues. Read More Compare products, get advice, and check out tests and reviews from the experts at Network World. Over 70 categories. Visit now   This email was sent to security.world@gmail.com Complimentary Subscriptions Available for newsletter subscribers. 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