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Late last year, when I interviewed Google Apps senior security manager Eran Feigenbaum and his marketing partner, Adam Swidler, they talked up Google's place in cloud computing and how it was in a prime position to make a difference with cloud security.

The dramatic change in the rate of adoption and the amount of discussion taking place regarding cloud computing demands that this technology, or rather a set of related technologies, continue to evolve utilizing a security-sensitive design.

The Cisco hacking scene has been pretty quiet for the past three years, but at this week's Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, there's going to be a little noise.

Researchers at Core Security Technologies are to demonstrate an attack that could allow hackers to extract private information from databases -- without requiring any bugs in the database management software.

Black Hat kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a big shift in focus from Internet viruses to application security.

Last year the CERT Coordination Center, a repository of information technology vulnerability reporting run by Carnegie Mellon University, posted 3,784 vulnerabilities. Admittedly, it was a slight dip from the 4,129 reported in 2002, but nonetheless it points to a growing trend in software fallibility. In fact, prior to 2000, when 1,090 vulnerabilities were reported, the total never hit 500.