http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/20/us-sony-hacker-idUSTRE74J3Z820110520
Sony Corp has been hacked again, exposing more security issues for the company less than a month after intruders stole personal information from more than 100 million online user accounts.
A hacked page on a Sony website in Thailand directed users to a fake site posing as an Italian credit card company. The site was designed to steal information from customers, Internet security firm F-Secure disclosed on Friday.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Software glitch caused Exchange Online to trip up
http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/software-glitch-caused-exchange-online-trip-772
A software bug caused email queues of some Exchange Online customers in the Americas to clog up on Thursday, leading to delivery delays that lasted in some cases almost seven hours.
The problem, which began at close to noon U.S. Eastern Time and wasn't fully resolved until past 6:30 p.m., initially caused 30 percent of Exchange Online hub servers in the Americas to experience backed-up mail queues.
Most of those affected servers returned to normal queue levels after about an hour, but one server required more extensive repair work, according to a Microsoft explanation posted to a company discussion forum on Friday.
A software bug caused email queues of some Exchange Online customers in the Americas to clog up on Thursday, leading to delivery delays that lasted in some cases almost seven hours.
The problem, which began at close to noon U.S. Eastern Time and wasn't fully resolved until past 6:30 p.m., initially caused 30 percent of Exchange Online hub servers in the Americas to experience backed-up mail queues.
Most of those affected servers returned to normal queue levels after about an hour, but one server required more extensive repair work, according to a Microsoft explanation posted to a company discussion forum on Friday.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Dropbox Drops the Ball on Data Security
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/228018/dropbox_drops_the_ball_on_data_security.html
Dropbox, a provider of cloud-based data storage services, is in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission over claims that it lied and intentionally deceived customers into believing that their data is more private and secure than it really is. Whether Dropbox was deliberately misleading, or just failed to clearly communicate policy changes, the complaint filed with the FTC illustrates concerns over online data security.
Dropbox, a provider of cloud-based data storage services, is in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission over claims that it lied and intentionally deceived customers into believing that their data is more private and secure than it really is. Whether Dropbox was deliberately misleading, or just failed to clearly communicate policy changes, the complaint filed with the FTC illustrates concerns over online data security.
PlayStation Network Hackers Used Amazon's Cloud Services To Launch Their Attack, Report Says
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/playstation-network-hackers-used-amazons-cloud-services-launch-their-attack-report-says
Hackers used Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing service to wage an attack on Sony’s PlayStation network last month, according to a report by Bloomberg News. If it’s true, it’s the first acknowledgement that a cloud service — billed as a cheap, dynamic solution for safely storing data and ramping up processing power — has been used as a platform for a cyber attack.
Bloomberg cites “a person with knowledge of the matter,” who said a hacker used a fake name to set up a bogus Amazon EC2 account. Amazon’s servers were not hacked; rather, someone purchased computing power and used it to attack Sony’s network, compromising the personal information of 100 million users.
Hackers used Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing service to wage an attack on Sony’s PlayStation network last month, according to a report by Bloomberg News. If it’s true, it’s the first acknowledgement that a cloud service — billed as a cheap, dynamic solution for safely storing data and ramping up processing power — has been used as a platform for a cyber attack.
Bloomberg cites “a person with knowledge of the matter,” who said a hacker used a fake name to set up a bogus Amazon EC2 account. Amazon’s servers were not hacked; rather, someone purchased computing power and used it to attack Sony’s network, compromising the personal information of 100 million users.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Google revives Blogger after outage: 20 Hours
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20062657-245.html
Google got Blogger back online late this morning following a maintenance-related glitch that kept blogs dark for more than 20 hours.
"We're nearly back to normal -- you can publish again, and in the coming hours posts and comments that were temporarily removed should be restored," Eddie Kessler, tech lead/manager at Blogger, wrote in a post on the Blogger Buzz site around 10:30 a.m. PT.
Google got Blogger back online late this morning following a maintenance-related glitch that kept blogs dark for more than 20 hours.
"We're nearly back to normal -- you can publish again, and in the coming hours posts and comments that were temporarily removed should be restored," Eddie Kessler, tech lead/manager at Blogger, wrote in a post on the Blogger Buzz site around 10:30 a.m. PT.
Sony’s Playstation Network Is Back.
http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/20110514/sonys-playstation-network-is-back-up-will-anyone-be-back
Sony just announced that over the next several hours it will be flipping the lights back on in its Playstation Network that has been since hackers attacked it nearly a month ago.
Sony just announced that over the next several hours it will be flipping the lights back on in its Playstation Network that has been since hackers attacked it nearly a month ago.
Microsoft BPOS Exchange Restored
http://blogs.technet.com/b/msonline/archive/2011/05/13/update-on-bpos-standard-email-issues.aspx
"On Tuesday at 9:30am PDT, the BPOS-S Exchange service experienced an issue with one of the hub components due to malformed email traffic on the service. Exchange has the built-in capability to handle such traffic, but encountered an obscure case where that capability did not work correctly. The result was a growing backlog of email. By 12:00am PDT, the malformed traffic was isolated and the mail queues cleared. The delays encountered by customers varied, on the order of 6-9 hours. Short term mitigation was implemented and a fix was under development."
"At 9:10am PDT today, service monitoring again detected malformed email traffic on the service. The problem was resolved at 10:03am, but users experienced up to 45 minute email delays during this time. A second, but related issue was detected via monitoring at 11:35am PDT, resulting in email stuck in some end users' outboxes. The issue was remediated at 12:04pm PDT. During this time, more than 1.5 million messages had queued on the service awaiting delivery. The backlog was 90% clear by 4:12 PM, but because of this large backlog of email, customers may have experienced delays of as long as 3 hours. We are implementing a comprehensive fix to both problems."
"On Tuesday at 9:30am PDT, the BPOS-S Exchange service experienced an issue with one of the hub components due to malformed email traffic on the service. Exchange has the built-in capability to handle such traffic, but encountered an obscure case where that capability did not work correctly. The result was a growing backlog of email. By 12:00am PDT, the malformed traffic was isolated and the mail queues cleared. The delays encountered by customers varied, on the order of 6-9 hours. Short term mitigation was implemented and a fix was under development."
"At 9:10am PDT today, service monitoring again detected malformed email traffic on the service. The problem was resolved at 10:03am, but users experienced up to 45 minute email delays during this time. A second, but related issue was detected via monitoring at 11:35am PDT, resulting in email stuck in some end users' outboxes. The issue was remediated at 12:04pm PDT. During this time, more than 1.5 million messages had queued on the service awaiting delivery. The backlog was 90% clear by 4:12 PM, but because of this large backlog of email, customers may have experienced delays of as long as 3 hours. We are implementing a comprehensive fix to both problems."
Monday, May 2, 2011
Rackspace to shutdown Slicehost
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/05/03/rackspace-to-shut-down-slicehost/
In a letter to its customers, Rackspace VP of Product Mark Interrante has announced that Slicehost, the IT hosting company Rackspace acquired in 2008, will be shut down within 12 months.
Interrante gives the complexities of managing “two brands, two control panels and two sets of Support, Engineering and Operations teams” as the underlying driver behind the move. Managing one product will give the company a greater chance of succesfully coordinating the shift from IPv4 to IPv6 as well as the development of OpenStack Technology.
In a letter to its customers, Rackspace VP of Product Mark Interrante has announced that Slicehost, the IT hosting company Rackspace acquired in 2008, will be shut down within 12 months.
Interrante gives the complexities of managing “two brands, two control panels and two sets of Support, Engineering and Operations teams” as the underlying driver behind the move. Managing one product will give the company a greater chance of succesfully coordinating the shift from IPv4 to IPv6 as well as the development of OpenStack Technology.
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