There is a very good and detailed article on Wikipedia about what Cloud computing means: Cloud computing, also known as on-demand computing, is a kind of Internet-based computing that provides shared processing resources and data to computers and other devices on-demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of […]
Your LinkedIn profile can tell someone a lot about you. But, what are your strongest skills? How could you describe yourself in a few words? Here is how: create a cloud of words from your profile enhancing the words that appear most. Here are more of […]
When Consumers Go To The Cloud, Businesses Should Watch Out Companies should take a look at what cloud services their employees are using following last week’s authentication bug at Dropbox Dropbox encrypts data on the servers, but not to individual accounts, notes Sorin Mustaca, a product manager with security firm Avira. Anyone with admin access […]
Who Watches the Watchmen, Part 3: Flying Headlong Into a Cloud By Richard Adhikari, TechNewsWorld “Once you’re in the cloud, information doesn’t belong only to you but also to the provider of the cloud service,” Sorin Mustaca, a data security expert at Avira, told TechNewsWorld. The risks involved in moving to the cloud include […]
Amazon Cloud Drive is like a hard drive in the cloud available only through the web browser. You can store your music, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon’s secure servers. It also accepts malware 🙂 Uploading the eicar.com test file produced no warning. Pity… More details and a free account can be obtained here: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/
I was curious about how the DE-Cleaner of Symantec works, so I downloaded the software and give it a closer look. I did not dissemble it or anything similar… I simply performed a little black box testing. So, I started it without any internet connection. The result was: no scanning was possible. DE-Cleaner requires an […]
Have a look at the article that Dirk Knopp wrote in the Avira Techblog. This article was referenced here : http://www.h-online.com/security/Opera-says-Opera-Unite-web-server-is-not-a-security-problem–/news/113719 His concern is that a lot of malware can be now served directly from user’s computer. And he is right. Even more, if there is a flaw in the Opera and somebody can alter […]
