George Stathakopoulos, general manager of the Trustworthy Computing group, leaves after 19 years
The Microsoft executive who managed the company's Trustworthy Computing security program has left for a new role at Amazon.
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Businesses looking at using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for pay-as-you-go servers can now add Symantec security, backup and storage protection.
Using side-channel attacks they find ways to steal data from cloud applications
Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw computing power, but the products may introduce new security problems that have yet to be fully explored, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A careless login led to the discovery of some strange ccount management practices at one of the Internet's largest retailers.
Via the RISKS mailing list comes an interesting tale of poor online account management at a major online retailer. According to Graham Bennett, accounts with Amazon display an odd behaviour that doesn't seem to have attracted much attention in the past.
