Document offers gloomy view of cloud

---

• Document offers gloomy view of cloud
• DHS studying global response to Conficker botnet
• AT&T wins first major deal at EPA
• Escalating attacks prompted emergency IE update, says Microsoft
• Endpoint security gets complicated
• MPs: Climategate software codes should have been available
• Adobe, Foxit examine new no-bug-needed PDF hack
• Bringing Internet privacy into the 21st century

Document offers gloomy view of cloud Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently published a document about cloud computing titled "Reaching for the Cloud(s): Privacy Issues related to Cloud Computing." I didn't like this document at all.

DHS studying global response to Conficker botnet Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT One year after the Conficker botnet was front-page news around the world, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is preparing a report looking at the worldwide effort to keep it in check.

AT&T wins first major deal at EPA Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT AT&T won a seven-year, $29 million contract to support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's nationwide network -- the carrier's first major deal with this federal agency, which has more than 17,000 employees in Washington, D.C., 10 regional offices and 27 laboratories.

Escalating attacks prompted emergency IE update, says Microsoft Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT Microsoft said that it patched the critical vulnerability in IE this week because the number of attacks jumped after news broke that the exploit had gone public.

Endpoint security gets complicated Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT Users say protecting network endpoints is becoming more difficult as the type of endpoint devices -- desktops, laptops, smartphones -- grows, making security a complex moving target.

MPs: Climategate software codes should have been available Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT The Professor at the centre of the leaked climate emails scandal has been criticised, alongside other scientists, by MPs who found he had been too secretive over complex research algorithms.

Adobe, Foxit examine new no-bug-needed PDF hack Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT Adobe and Foxit Software are investigating attacks based on a new tactic that embeds attack code in rigged PDF documents, the two companies said today.

Bringing Internet privacy into the 21st century Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT Finally, there's something Google and Microsoft can agree on: Our electronic privacy protections are in serious need of an overhaul. They, along with Intel, AOL, AT&T, the ACLU, and a dozen other household names, have formed the Digital Due Process coalition, aimed at urging Congress to modernize the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) -- the only thing keeping Johnny Law from pawing through your digital life.

You are subscribed to email updates from "Cisco" via ehsan in Google Reader To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610