Cloud Computing

Bitbucket’s downtime is a cautionary cloud tale

Study: 54% of companies ban Facebook, Twitter at work

Some allow limited use of social networks on the job but most now bar them outright

Google confirms Gmail phishing attack

Downplays scam, says 'small number' of accounts compromised

Gmail, Yahoo Mail join Hotmail; passwords exposed

BBC reports Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and others targeted by 'industry-wide' attack

Mozilla augments Firefox’s plug-in check

Makes good on promise to detect vulnerable plug-ins from Adobe, Apple, Microsoft

DDoS attack against Bitbucket darkens Amazon cloud

At least 16 hours elapsed before Amazon acknowledged nature of attack, says Bitbucket

Adobe puts LiveCycle in the cloud

The software also gets portal-like capabilities in its first major update in over a year

Hackers plan to clobber the cloud, spy on Blackberries

The Hack in the Box security conference will highlight threats on popular networking sites such as Facebook

Symantec to launch object-based file storage service in next year

Company also unveils FileStore tool for building private enterprise cloud services

Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google’s

U.S. military says its cloud computing platform is more secure, reliable than commercial offerings