Posted on November 2, 2013, by Goran Čandrlić | 6 minute read
The theft of source code for Adobe Acrobat, Cold Fusion and similar products happened earlier in the month. This came as possibly the biggest compromise of a software vendor’s security since the RSA Security stolen token meltdown. "Well, it’s worse than we thought," reports GigaOM. "It turns out that it affected not “just” Acrobat, Acrobat Reader and Cold Fusion users, but Photoshop users as well. The number of people impacted is well over the 3 million customers that Adobe originally noted." Investigation has now confirmed that attackers obtained access to Adobe IDs and what were at the time valid, encrypted passwords for approximately 38 million active users. The past week, AnonNews.org posted a huge file called “users.tar.gz” that appears to include more than 150 million username and hashed password pairs taken from Adobe. "We have reset the passwords for all Adobe IDs with valid, encrypted passwords that we believe were involved in the incident—regardless of whether those users are active or not," says Heather Edell, spokesperson for Adobe.
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A new infographic provided by the team at SkyHigh Networks offers a number of interesting facts related to cloud usage throughout the year. SkyHigh analyzes users, risks and policies of the cloud.
Along with the infographic, they bring a report with data from over 3M+ enterprise users, and that makes it a valuable resource for the latest statistics and graphical data on cloud usage trends and risks across categories like File Sharing, Social Media, CRM, Development, Tracking, and more.
Find the full infographic here or download the report here.
"Application migration will be the biggest part of the effort, and business will continue to be the main driver," Linthicum explains his thesis. He also brings some data from Gartner report, and although it is ambitious prediction, he says it just might come through. "I'm not so sure about the hybrid part of the prediction," he claims, though. "Enterprises will use a variety of cloud models, including private and hybrid, resulting in a multicloud reality rather than a hybrid one." Also, he sees the growth more as a result of future application development and application migration than infrastructure conversation and expansion.
Read the full article at Infoworld.
TechCrunch brings highlights from their last week's event Disrupt Europe in Berlin, Germany, October 28th-29th. The idea was to reveal an all new slate of outstanding startups, influential speakers, and guests. Startup Battlefield is at the very core of TechCrunch Disrupt. "Fifteen startups launched on the Disrupt Europe stage. From enterprise data companies to consumer electronics, the mix ably represented the best of Europe’s exploding startup scene," they report. The winner of TechCrunch Disrupt Europe 2013 is Lock8. Lock8 has created a smart bike lock system that’s embedded with sensors to detect attempts to hack or bash it off, and even changes in temperature that might indicate freezing it or trying to get in with a blowtorch.
To get a better idea of best new startups from around the world, take a look at the highlights report (it includes videos and chats from TechCrunch).
CSC, a global leader of next-generation information technology services and solutions, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ServiceMesh, an enterprise cloud management company. This strategic acquisition will enable CSC to migrate their clients' applications into cloud computing environments. “The future of next-generation IT infrastructure will involve a set of multiple clouds utilized simultaneously by enterprises,” explains Mike Lawrie, CEO at CSC. ServiceMesh provides ServiceMesh Agility Platform, an enterprise cloud management platform, to automate the deployment and management of enterprise applications and platforms across private, public and hybrid cloud environments. “We will empower an ecosystem of enterprise software providers by lowering the friction for companies to execute a multi-vendor hybrid cloud strategy while maintaining central governance, policy and administration,” claims Dan Houston, CEO at ServiceMesh. Existing customers of ServiceMesh will be able to leverage CSC’s global network of industry consultants, application developers, software engineers, cybersecurity experts and infrastructure professionals, according to the press release. ServiceMesh will have access to CSC’s global sales, marketing, delivery and solution development teams.
