April 18th, 2011
by Lance Whitney
Microsoft has opened the tap on its cloud-based Office 365 and is now offering the service as a public beta for anyone to try out.
Available in 38 countries and in 17 languages, the new beta follows several months of limited testing among a couple thousand businesses that were able to kick the tires on the service. After the public beta, Office 365 will officially launch later this year.
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April 18th, 2011
by Darren Pauli
Mozilla is reviewing a final draft of its baseline policies to address problems in the way that Internet certificates are issued.
The browser maker wants certificate authorities (CAs) that issue certificates to adopt a standard that’s been dubbed “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (PDF), published by the Certificate and Browser Forum and still in a final draft.
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April 18th, 2011
by Lance Whitney
External attacks from cybercriminals will soon pose a greater risk to the corporate world than insider threats, according to the results of a Cyber-Ark survey (PDF) released yesterday.
Polling more than 1,400 IT staffers and top-level executives around the world, Cyber-Ark Software’s fifth annual “Trust, Security and Passwords” report tried to get a sense of the security dangers that concern the corporate world for now and in the near future. The survey found that 57 percent of the executives believe that over the next one to three years, cybercriminals will present more of a security risk than will any insider threats.
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April 14th, 2011
by Elinor Mills
Adobe will release a fix for a new critical bug in Flash Player on Friday for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, while Google Chrome users will be protected by Thursday through the browser’s auto-update feature, Adobe said today.
“As part of our collaboration with Google, Google receives updated builds of Flash Player for integration and testing. Once testing is completed for Google Chrome, the release is pushed via the Chrome auto-update mechanism,” Adobe said in a statement.
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April 14th, 2011
by Elinor Mills
By seizing servers and domain names and getting permission to remotely turn off malware on compromised PCs, U.S. officials have disabled a botnet that steals data from infected computers.
The legal actions are part of the “most complete and comprehensive enforcement action ever taken by U.S. authorities to disable an international botnet,” according to a statement from the Department of Justice. A botnet is a group of computers that have been compromised and are being remotely controlled by attackers, typically to send spam or attack other computers.
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