MSFT Drops OS Ball, Again
Why is Microsoft Corporations' (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Satya Nardella touting underwater servers instead of focusing on the plight of current Windows Server and Desktop users dealing with the apparent incompetence of Microsoft staff and contractors running Windows Update systems? (With the latest screwup in Windows Update-land - the bad code pushed out to users in the October 2018 Update that deleted user files, and other necesary system files - is as of today NOT not fixed which caused the company to pull the October Update - and it's now November...) Is it the money from the cloud profit center (otherwise known as Azure) that's 'clouding' his vision? You be the judge!
Carnegie Mellon's SEI 'Best Practices for Security in Cloud Computing'
With the Federal Government's information technology's modernization push to move to the cloud, security expertise is crucial for succesful deployments. Watch Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute's CMU CERT Division Researchers Don Faatz and Tim Morrow discuss this move in their short clip 'Best Practices for Security in Cloud Computing'.
Meanwhile, In News of the Coming Software Apocalypse...
via Paul Kunert, writing at El Reg, comes this story of persistent login issues with Microsoft Corporation's (Nasdaq: MSFT) 'Cloud' based Office Not-So-Productive productivity product, monikered O365 - Oh, but you knew that, since you've been unable to fire up good ol' Word for days... Perhaps a non - Cloud based solution to run your business might be in order, eh?
Greg Ross' 'A Modest Proposal'
via Greg Ross, writing at his superb blog Futility Closet, comes this anecdote detailing an interesting proposal offered in 1978 to solve a vexing problem wrangled with adroit virtuosity by Claude Shannon, PhD. Cetainly Today's Must Read.
DerbyCon 2018, Michael Gough's 'Detecting WMI Exploitation' →
My Thoughts, Exactly
via the superb research efforts by Wenyao Xu, PhD , Feng Lin PhD and Zhanpeng Jin PhD - all Professors of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, comes a story of both exacting scientific method and incredible rigor, in which, the future of passwords may very well be revealed. Read it and weep for our advesaries.