Cybersecurity Tips
To assist small businesses with cybersecurity, FCC provides tips that's available for download. It includes basic advice such as how to make sure Wi-Fi routers
are secure, encrypt data on computers, install anti-virus software and train employees not to click on links in email from
people they don't know.
Google Sanitizes Chrome 15 for Memory Flaws
Google is now out with Chrome 15, fixing a large number of flaws found
by third party researchers who are being paid bug bounties for their
efforts. Ever since the bounty program started, Google is fixing over 27 flaws and have paid $26,511 in bug bounties to security researchers.
Ten flaws fixed in the Chrome 15 updates were discovered with an open source project called, AddressSanitizer. The AddressSanitizer is a memory error detector for C/C++ and is able to help identify out-of-bounds access issues as well as use-after-free memory conditions. Looking beyond security fixes, Google has also made some incremental feature improvements with Chrome 15. There is a new Tab page layout that shows a user's most visited sites. Additionally, Google has updated the look for the Chrome app store.
Ten flaws fixed in the Chrome 15 updates were discovered with an open source project called, AddressSanitizer. The AddressSanitizer is a memory error detector for C/C++ and is able to help identify out-of-bounds access issues as well as use-after-free memory conditions. Looking beyond security fixes, Google has also made some incremental feature improvements with Chrome 15. There is a new Tab page layout that shows a user's most visited sites. Additionally, Google has updated the look for the Chrome app store.
Rapport By Trusteer
Many major online banks now offer their customer to install additional security software called Rapport by Trusteer. It’s an extra layer of security that sits between your computer and the online banking sites that protects against phising and keylogger.
Here is the list of banks that offer Rapport for their customers for free.
Despite this, for most users Rapport will be a good addition to their security arsenals, but beware the pitfalls. It can slow down Internet surfing. To avoid this, disable Rapport for all but the per-designated bank or eCommerce sites you use.
Here is the list of banks that offer Rapport for their customers for free.
Despite this, for most users Rapport will be a good addition to their security arsenals, but beware the pitfalls. It can slow down Internet surfing. To avoid this, disable Rapport for all but the per-designated bank or eCommerce sites you use.
Yahoo! Data Center Chief Left For Apple
The Godfather of the 'computing coop', Scott Noteboom, fills yet unknown role at Apple. Noteboom was at the head of an infrastructure team at Yahoo! responsible
for breakthrough innovations in data center design. The most recent and
notable one was creation of the Computing Coop – a design that cut both
energy consumption of the company's large-scale data centers, as well
as cost and time it takes to build them.
Microsoft CRM Next Release
The cloud version or CRM Online is going to be first to get a number of
new updates, sometime in the coming weeks. Microsoft will make those
same updates, plus some additional features, available via an
on-premises version of its CRM release.
According to this Microsoft roadmap slide, unified provisioning, billing and administration, as well as identity federation and in-region disaster recovery support are all coming to the online version only. The first three of those capabilities are all related to the integration of CRM Online with Office 365.
According to this Microsoft roadmap slide, unified provisioning, billing and administration, as well as identity federation and in-region disaster recovery support are all coming to the online version only. The first three of those capabilities are all related to the integration of CRM Online with Office 365.
New Data Center Facility in Seattle
Equinix will add a new data center presence in Seattle, WA. The new data center will add significant capacity for Equinix,
which has two data centers in Seattle, including one at the Westin
Bulding. It also reflects Seattle’s growth as a data center market, and
an important gateway to the Asia-Pacific market.
The new Equinix site will add approximately 51,000 square feet of
data center space and capacity for more than 1,000 cabinet equivalents,
and support 4.1 megawatts of IT capacity. Equinix expects to invest
approximately $60 million to build the new IBX data center, which is
estimated to open in first quarter of 2013.
