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EMC shuts down online cloud storage service

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Computerworld - EMC plans to shut down its Atmos Online cloud storage service immediately, according to a posting on its website.

EMC said its hosted storage service will be phased out immediately, and it is offering no guarantee that any current users storing data on it will be able to retrieve it in the future.

“As a result, we strongly encourage that you migrate any critical data or production workloads currently served via Atmos Online to one of our partners offering Atmos based services,” EMC instructed users on its site.

EMC started Atmos Online a little more than a year ago, but the service never took off, according to industry analysts.

An EMC spokesman said as the number of service providers adopting EMC Atmos technology continues to expand, the company decided not to announce the general availability of the Atmos Online storage service

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Full Disclosure? 10,000 PCs infected and counting

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Screenshot of Windows Help Center in Windows XPMicrosoft reported yesterday that the flaw disclosed by Tavis Ormandy in the Windows Help Center has been used to infect more than 10,000 PCs in less than one month.

While these attacks are very serious, it strikes me as some classic PR on Microsoft’s part to release a statistic like this while trying to blame Google for Tavis’s “irresponsible disclosure.” Has Microsoft commented on the hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs infected with the ZBot Trojan? How about malicious PDFs? It seems that Microsoft is putting on the full court press to make a point about how they want vulnerability disclosures to be handled.

I am not taking sides here, but what would seem to best serve the community is an open, honest discussion among the parties involved where we can all learn from this incident. It is difficult to strike a blanace between protecting users against unpatched… Read the rest

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Smartphone Security Grows Up With Businesses On The Lookout

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It wasn’t long ago that John Hering was a college student posing commando style on a rooftop with a BlueTooth sniper rifle on his shoulder. The device, more a USB dongle than an Uzi, theatrically proved a point made more elegantly in Hering’s security research: that mobile phones aren’t immune from the security maladies of their PC brethren.

Six years later, Hering is the chief executive of a mobile security company called Lookout. He and his research colleagues packed their boxes and moved to San Francisco in order to launch the company late last year (See:
Mobile security, like Hering, was once focused mostly on research and histrionics.

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Microsoft’s IE posts record usage share gains

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Computerworld - Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer Web browser turned things around last month, boosting its usage share by a record amount, a Web analytics firm said today.

By the end of June, IE accounted for 60.3% of all browsers used globally, according to data released by Net Applications. The increase of sixth-tenths of a percentage point was a record in Net Applications’ data, exceeding the three-tenths of a percentage-point jump in May 2009 by a wide margin.

Vince Vizzaccaro, a Net Applications executive vice president, attributed at least some of IE’s gains to Microsoft‘s “Confidence” marketing campaign, which rolled out in early June and featured TV and Web ads extolling security enhancements in IE8.

“It’s a fairly large campaign, something I don’t remember Microsoft really doing before,” Vizzaccaro said. “And I think it’s a good campaign.”

He also speculated that IE’s increase was

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Survey finds storage systems underutilized as companies add more capacity

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Computerworld - A survey of 1,165 IT managers found that the average company doesn’t utilize 28% of storage capacity but nonetheless plans to increase storage capacity by 34% over the next year.

The survey, performed by International Data Group’s B2B publications business, found that the storage capacity at the companies of respondents will grow by an average of 58% over the next one to three years and by 93% over the next 3 to 5 years.

The survey separated respondents into two groups: Those managing IT in enterprises with more than 1,000 employees; and those at small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) with fewer than 1,000 employees.

The enterprise survey found that 58% of respondents work at a company with a storage budget of over $100,000, while the SMB IT managers indicated they spend less than $100,000 annually on storage needs.

The survey found that overall,

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