Microsoft extends Visual Studio Express 2012 to desktop apps
After hearing objections from developers, Microsoft will offer a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 package for desktop application development after all.
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Flame's Windows Update hack required world-class cryptanalysis, researchers say
The Flame cyber-espionage malware makes use of a previously unknown cryptographic attack variant that required world-class cryptanalysis to develop, experts from the Dutch national research center for mathematics and computer science (CWI) said on Thursday. The cryptographic attack, known as an MD5 chosen prefix collision, was used by Flame's creators to generate a rogue Microsoft digital code-signing certificate that allowed them to distribute the malware to Windows computers as an update from Microsoft.
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Oracle to issue 14 patches for Java SE
Oracle is planning to ship 14 patches related to Java SE on Tuesday, including a number with the highest level of severity under the CVSS (common vulnerability scoring system) framework, according to a pre-release announcement on the company's website. "Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply Critical Patch Update fixes as soon as possible," Oracle said.
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Microsoft to repair IE flaw discovered at hacking contest
Next week's Patch Tuesday will feature a fix for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that came to light at the celebrated Pwn2Own hacking competition held earlier this year at CanSecWest. It's one of the most important of the seven patches Microsoft will issue -- two others are also labeled critical -- and it is probably the best known, given that it was publicly demonstrated at the contest in March.
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iPad price cut sparks free fall in tablet prices
Apple's announcement in March, upon releasing the new iPad (a.k.a. iPad 3), that it was lowering iPad 2 pricing to $399 has forced other tablet computer makers to slash pricing on their devices as well.
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Amazon moves to make it easier to cut cost of cloud-based batch jobs
Amazon Web Services has integrated configuration templates and auto-scaling features with its Spot Instances offering in an effort to make it easier for users to cut costs of running batch jobs in its cloud, the company said on Thursday.
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Server sales continue to decline, says IDC
Revenue from server sales declined by about 12 percent year-on-year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa during the first quarter of 2012, as vendors continue to suffer from a slowdown in server spending, according to market research company IDC. This was the second consecutive quarter of annual revenue declines, and the first double-digit decrease since the third quarter of 2009. Difficult market conditions compounded the current slowdown in server spending, IDC said.
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California's budget crisis sparks controversial BYOD plan to save money
The state of California's staggering budget problems -- now an estimated $16 billion shortfall -- have put Chris Cruz, deputy director and chief information officer at the state's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), in a tough situation. Because of the state's ongoing fiscal crisis, he, like other agency managers, last year was told to cut use of state-issued cellphones by 50 percent as a cost-saving measure.
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Microsoft developing Hyper-V support for OpenStack
Microsoft is attempting to reintegrate support for Hyper-V back into OpenStack, months after the open source cloud-building project dropped support for the hypervisor in its latest release.
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Mobile devices bring cloud storage -- and security risks -- to work
Dropbox made headlines this week when Gawker.com was the first to report that an unnamed hacker broke into Mitt Romney's hotmail account with the same password used for a Dropbox account also associated with the GOP presidential candidate. That followed on the heels of a decision last month by IBM to rollout a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy that bans the use of Dropbox.
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How Charles Dickens helped crack your LinkedIn password
Kevin Young, a computer security expert who studies passwords, is nearly at a loss for words. Literally. Young and his colleagues are working to decode some 2.6 million scrambled LinkedIn passwords, part of a total of 6.1 million released earlier this week on a Russian password cracking forum. Young studies how people pick passwords and how resistant they are to cracking.
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Stupid security mistakes: Things you missed while doing the hard stuff
If you're worried about high-tech hackers using advanced and sinister techniques to break through your fancy firewalls -- well, that's not outside the realm of possibility. By all means, spend money on firewalls! But you might also want to keep in mind some distinctly low-tech security problems that are not particularly sophisticated -- in fact, some might call them distinctly dumb -- that nevertheless mean bad things for the companies or people who suffer them.
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Oracle to Spring developers: Convert to Java EE
Oracle is promoting conversions from the popular Spring Framework for Java development to Java EE (Enterprise Edition). But the founder of Spring counters that these technologies can work together and cites a financial incentive for Oracle's campaign.
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