Hackers find a home in Amazon's EC2 cloud Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. Microsoft's most important product releases for 2009 One surprise release stunned the industry. 'Cool stuff' 2009 holiday gift guide The best HDTVs, laptops, smartphones and some surprise goodies to give this year. Microsoft getting better at Patch Tuesday updates, experts say All told, Microsoft released 74 patches in 2009 and while some months were worse than others (such as October), security experts say the software giant seems to be refining and improving the process of explaining and pushing out patches. Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and others form cloud computing group A group of companies is starting up an Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council in hopes of removing barriers to enterprise use of hosted cloud computing. Cisco still open to IBM partnership Cisco Systems tried to partner with major server vendors several years ago before coming out with its own blade servers earlier this year, and it's still open to a partnership with IBM, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday. 'Magic Quadrant' whiner just won't quit Only a grim sense of duty prompts me to note this latest development in a lawsuit that gives frivolous a bad name. Red Hat open sources desktop application protocol Red Hat has open sourced a virtual desktop protocol it acquired last year, called the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment (SPICE), in the hope of fostering its wider adoption. Apple appeals $21.7 million judgment in patent dispute over caching technology Not too long after winning a significant legal battle against Psystar, Apple recently found itself on the losing end of a $21.7 million judgment stemming from a patent dispute with OPTI relating to predictive caching technology. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Amazon EC2 and Symantec: What Does it Mean? and Way too Easy: Dynamips Under Linux; On Microsoft Subnet: How To Run Windows 7 Virtualized on Mac OS X; On Google Subnet: Make money on Android? Mobile Ad Cents Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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