Cloud computing not secure

Security experts have cautioned that, while cloud computing services are on the rise, the security around them is not yet mature enough to trust, says ZDNet UK.

Identity-and-access control is one of the biggest factors in ensuring online services are secure, said Adrian Seccombe, chief security officer with pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly.

However, he was not convinced SaaS-related online ID and access offerings have been in existence long enough for large customers to be able to trust them.

Microsoft has released its final eight patches of 2008, which address 28 vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw in the new search component in Vista and Windows Server 2008, writes Network World.

Six of the eight were listed as "critical" and the final two were rated "important". The final total of patches for the year was 77.

One of the important patches, MS08-076, targets a set of vulnerabilities that, when taken together, can add up to a critical flaw, according to information Microsoft provided to anti-malware vendors. Microsoft, however, does not base its ratings on combinations, just on the individual flaws.

Sun Microsystems is looking to update its rack-mounted and blade server lines with AMD's quad-core Opteron processor, formerly called Shanghai, reports eWeek.

Sun, along with Dell, HP, IBM, Fujitsu and several other vendors, has already lined up behind AMD to offer new systems that use the latest Opteron processor.

In addition to the Sun Blade X6440 and X6240 blade servers, Sun has several rack-mounted systems that support between two and eight AMD Opteron processors.