One Response to “ Building on the Cloud ”

Salesforce.com has helped build a group of certified Force.com developers on oDesk, making our marketplace one of the best resources for buyers looking to use Salesforce.com CRM solutions on the Force.com platform. And we’re hearing from the providers offering Force.com skills that being part of this latest certified group on oDesk is paying off as “cloud computing” reaches new heights.

Rakesh Aggarwal is a salesforce.com-certified developer in India who says demand for Force.com implementations has brought him a steady stream of customers since a buyer brought him onto oDesk last summer.

“I was already developing applications on salesforce.com when one of my clients insisted on working through oDesk,” he says. “After my first successful job through oDesk—now I insist that my clients work through oDesk!”

In its first three weeks, the salesforce.com/Force.com group on oDesk has grown to about 60 programmers. Jobs were already on the rise—a year ago, about 10 jobs involving Salesforce CRM were being posted each month on oDesk. Today it’s between 40 and 50. Rakesh says the technology has a lot of appeal. “I knew this was the future of technology because it’s the fastest, most trusted and most complete platform for building and delivering applications in the cloud.”

The cloud idea is simple—offering the full software platform as a service, so that the applications and data reside on the Internet (conceptualized as a cloud of servers), where a business can access them. This keeps in-house IT costs down and allows more flexibility and faster rollout of new services. Rakesh says a wide range of companies are taking advantage of the concept. “I’ve worked with individual developers who wanted to push their applications to Appexchange, and also with companies with more than 200 licenses, where they wanted to extend their business processes within salesforce.com.”

Rakesh has been working with salesforce.com technology for three years, since before the Force.com offering launched. He says that Force.com and oDesk have been a powerful combination for his business. oDesk lets him focus on his work as a developer, rather than on the hassles of being a one-man small business.

“I can manage my work much easier now,” he says. Which is good, because there’s more of it. “I had to go about searching for work earlier, but after couple of jobs here, I have been constantly getting work through oDesk.”

He says he’s even busier since joining the new salesforce.com certified users group. “It’s a great initiative, and it’s great to be part of this group,” he says. “After joining this group, the number of leads for salesforce.com projects has increased for me.”

While his profile offers other skills besides his salesforce.com expertise, Rakesh sees the Force.com platform as the critical focus, for himself and the buyers he’s serving.

“Cloud computing is a simple idea,” he says, “but it can have a huge impact on your business.”

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   June 23rd, 2009 at 7:23 pm

Ex-Googlers behind new security service that flags

This story appeared on Network World at
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/061509-security-service-malware.html 

malware on Web sites

By Ellen Messmer , Network World , 06/16/2009

Sponsored by:

Security start-up Dasient debuted Tuesday with a cloud-based service designed to detect malware on Web sites and quarantine it away from visitors prior to it being removed.

Dasient’s three co-founders include two former Google employees, Neil Daswani, previously Google’s security product manager, and software engineer Shariq Rizvi, along with Ameet Ranadive, whose background includes stints at consultancy McKinsey & Co. and HP. (The new company doesn’t use job titles.)

How next-gen browsers tackle security

The Web Anti-Malware service that Dasient is announcing today makes use of Web crawlers and heuristics to automatically detect code that cyber-criminals have loaded onto legitimate Web sites in order to download malware or push visitors to fraudulent sites. As a consequence, victimized sites infected by malware often end up on “blacklists” of suspected dangerous sites compiled by Google as well as security firms, including McAfee, Symantec and WebSense, that have ways to watch for compromised sites.

It’s “a challenging engineering problem,” says Daswani of performing diagnostics on malware-infected sites and quarantining code without disrupting site use. The Dasient Web Anti-Malware service, which starts from $50 per month, is still in an “alpha” stage in some respects, especially the malware-quarantining capability, Dasient’s co-founders acknowledge. The malware quarantining feature requires a Dasient software module to be installed on a Web server for protection.

The goal, the co-founders say, is to assist Web site managers in finding out where the malware problems are before they’re on blacklists or to help them get off the blacklists, which disrupt business and drive customers away. The Dasient service can also be used by Web hosting providers to assist their customers.

There are millions of Web sites compromised each year. Family Communications, the Pittsburgh-based children’s media non-profit founded by Fred Rogers, found out how devastating it can be to end up on a blacklist because of infected Web pages.

“Four or five months ago we were alerted to the fact that Google results was saying your Web site may have malicious code,” says Kevin Morrison, COO at Family Communications, who said Google did send out an e-mail notice but didn’t seem to be in a position to do much more than that.

The phone started ringing off the hook with callers asking what was going on, and Morrison says his Web site hosting provider couldn’t really tell. Around the same time, Dasient contacted Family Communications to say it knew the site had been flagged by Google, they could help, and they did, showing exactly where bad code was embedded in Web pages, says Morrison.

“It had been hacked obviously,” Morrison says. “We got the malicious code out of the way and suddenly we’re OK on Google again,” says Morrison, who adds his company has continued to be an early user of Dasient’s Web Anti-Malware, though no more incidents have cropped up since.

Dasient retains close ties with Google — which itself faces many Web attacks daily, says Daswani — but the co-founders declined to provide more detail.

The start-up has received $2 million in funding from Maples Investment, Radar Partners, Stratton Sclavos and Eric Benhamou.

Update: Two New Zero Day Adobe Reader Exploits

Adobe Releases Updates for Reader and Acrobat Severity: High 12 May, 2009 Update: On 28 April, 2009, we alerted LiveSecurity subscribers about two zero day vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader which attackers could exploit to execute code on your machine, potentially gaining complete control of it. When we first reported this issue, a greyhat security researcher had already released Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploits that leveraged these flaws to the public. We promised to update our alert when Adobe released a patch for this issue. Today they did. Adobe’s security bulletin announces the release of Reader 9.1.1, which fixes both security vulnerabilities (one of them only affects Reader on UNIX systems). They also announce updates for Acrobat, which also suffers from these vulnerabilities. Adobe’s bulletin does not describe the flaws in any technical detail. However, they do describe their impact. If an attacker can entice one of your users into downloading and opening a maliciously crafted PDF document (.pdf), he can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute code on that user’s computer, with that user’s privileges. If your user has local administrative privileges, the attacker gains full control of the user’s machine.  If you use Adobe Reader or Acrobat on any platform, we recommend you download and install Adobe’s updates as soon as you can. See below for details. Solution Path: Adobe has released Reader 9.1.1, Acrobat 8.1.5 and Acrobat, 7.1.2 to fix these vulnerabilities. You should download, test, and deploy the appropriate updates throughout your network as soon as you can: Adobe Reader 9.1.1 For Windows For Mac For UNIX Adobe Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended for Windows 3D for Windows Pro for Mac Note: If you use Adobe Updater, it may automatically install the corresponding updates for you. For All WatchGuard Users: If you previously customized your Firebox’s proxy policies to temporarily block PDF documents (.pdf), you may want to remove those customizations after applying Adobe’s patch. This will allow your users to download legitimate PDF documents again. For additional details about the vulnerability, and as a convenient reference, we reproduce our original 28 April alert below. You can also find it in the LiveSecurity Latest Broadcasts archive. Summary: This vulnerability affects: Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1 and earlier, on Windows, Mac, *nix computers How an attacker exploits it: By enticing your users into viewing a maliciously crafted PDF document Impact: An attacker can execute code on your computer, potentially gaining control of it What to do: Implement the workarounds described in the Solutions section of this alert Exposure: Yesterday, SecurityFocus released an advisory describing a new zero day Adobe Reader exploit they found in the wild. The Proof of Concept (PoC) exploit –  written by some calling himself “Arr1val” — seems to leverage a flaw in the Adobe Reader function called “getAnnots()”. As it turns out, Arr1val released two new zero day exploits. The second exploit leverages another Adobe Reader function called “spell.customDictionaryOpen().” Arr1val’s code suggests he confirmed these flaws using Adobe Reader 9.1 and 8.1.4 for Linux. However, we suspect the flaws may affect all current versions of Reader running on any platform. By enticing one of your users into downloading and opening a malicious PDF document, an attacker could exploit either of these unpatched Reader vulnerabilities to execute code on your user’s computer, with that user’s privileges. If the user had root or local administrator privileges, the attacker would gain complete control of that user’s machine. Adobe has responded to this incident in a short blog post, saying they are investigating the issue. Since exploit code is widely available and Adobe hasn’t had time to patch yet, these flaws pose a serious risk to Adobe Reader users. We recommend you implement the workarounds described below to mitigate the risk of these dangerous zero day exploits. Solution Path Adobe has not had time to release a patch for these zero day vulnerabilities. However, the workarounds described below should mitigate the risk posed by the exploits currently circulating in the wild. Inform your users of this vulnerability. Advise them to remain wary of unsolicited PDF documents arriving via email. If they don’t absolutely need the document, and don’t trust the entity it came from, they should avoid opening it until you patch Adobe Reader. Use antivirus (AV) software and make sure it’s up to date. AV vendors will release signatures for these new exploits, so make sure to keep your AV software up to date. Disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader. Disabling JavaScript in Adobe Reader could prevent these exploits from succeeding. To disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader, click Edit => Preferences => JavaScript and then uncheck Enable Acrobat JavaScript. Keep in mind, this prevents JavaScript from running in legitimate PDF documents as well. Use a gateway device, like your Firebox, to block PDF files. If your users can’t download PDF files, these exploits won’t affect them. Unfortunately, doing this blocks legitimate PDF files as well. Nonetheless, depending on your business needs, you may still want to block PDF files until Adobe releases a patch. Use an alternative PDF reader. You can mitigate the risk of these Adobe Reader vulnerabilities by using an alternative PDF reader. Keep in mind, other PDF readers may also suffer security vulnerabilities. However, attackers seem to primarily target the popular Adobe Reader. If it meets your business needs, you may try to adopt one of the alternative PDF readers listed on this site. We will update this alert when Adobe releases a patch. For All WatchGuard Users: Many of WatchGuard’s Firebox models can block incoming PDF files. However, most administrators prefer to allow these file types for business purposes. Nonetheless, if PDF files are not absolutely necessary to your business, you may consider blocking them using the Firebox’s HTTP and SMTP proxy until Adobe patches. If you decide you want to block PDF documents, follow the links below for video instructions on using your Firebox proxy’s content blocking features to block .pdf files by their file extension: Firebox X Edge running 10.x How do I block files with the FTP proxy? How do I block files with the HTTP proxy? How do I block files with the POP3 proxy? How do I block files with the SMTP proxy Firebox X Core and X Peak running Fireware 10.x How do I block files with the FTP proxy? How do I block files with the HTTP proxy? How do I block files with the POP3 proxy? How do I block files with the SMTP proxy? Status: We will update you when Adobe releases a patch. Until then, implement the workarounds described above. References: SecurityFocus Adobe Reader Advisory Adobe blog post Adobe Reader getAnnots() exploit code Adobe Reader spell.customDictionaryOpen() exploit code This alert was researched and written by Corey Nachreiner, CISSP. What did you think of this alert? Let us know at your.opinion.matters@watchguard.com. More alerts and articles: log into the LiveSecurity Archive.   NOTE: This e-mail was sent from an unattended mailbox. Please do not reply. ABOUT Questiva/TailoredMail: WatchGuard has contracted with Questiva/TailoredMail, an industry leading vendor of trusted email services, to send these emails and maintain a record of your preferences confidentially. Personal information about you is not sold or rented to Questiva/TailoredMail or to other companies. Both WatchGuard and Questiva/TailoredMail are fully committed to your privacy, as detailed in WatchGuard’s privacy policy. 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All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. You may not modify, reproduce, republish, post, transmit, or distribute this content except as expressly permitted in writing by WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

How To Trace An Email

What is an email header?

Each email you receive comes with headers. The headers contain information about the routing of the email and the originating IP of the email. Not all emails you receive can be traced back to the originating point and depending on how you send emails determines whether or not they can trace the email back to you. The headers don’t contain any personal information. At most, you can get the originating IP and the computer name that sent the email. The originating IP can be looked up to determine from where the email was sent. IP address location information DOES NOT contain your street address or phone number. It will most likely determine the city and the ISP the sender used.

How do I get the email header?

Each email program will vary as to how you get to the email options. I’ll cover the basics…the rest is up to you.

• Outlook

Right click the email while it’s in the inbox and choose Message Options. A window will open with the headers in the bottom of the window.

• Windows Live Mail

Right click the email while it’s in the inbox, choose Properties, then click the Details tab.

• GMail

Open the email. In the upper right corner of the email you’ll see the word Reply with a little down arrow to the right. Click the down arrow and choose Show Original.

• Hotmail

Right click the email in the inbox and choose View Message Source.

• Yahoo!

Right click the email in the inbox and choose View Full Headers.

You can see that no matter the email program, the headers are usually just a right click away.

I’ve got the header, now what?

Usually the first IP listed is where the email originated. There are exceptions to this. You’ll have to look at the information logically to deduce the originating IP.

Can any email be traced?

Yes and No. For example, someone who sends an email to your hotmail account shows in the X-Originating IP section of the headers. However, someone who sends you an email from GMail can ONLY be traced back to the GMail servers.

We’ve got more information in our Trace An Email forum.

Q:

Anybody else able to verify this as a bug? When you restore an account from a backup, the mailman list and archive (if they exist for that account) are not restored.

The mailman lists are stored in the backup file under the mm directory. Suspended lists are store under the mms directory. And list archves are stored under the mma directory. All of these exist in the backup file of the account. But when restoring the archives, the contents of these directories are not found in the correspnding directories in /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman.

I’m just wondering if anyone else is noticing this issue or not.

This appears to be present in 11.24.2-CURRENT_32283 and in 11.24.4-RELEASE_32603.

A:

The mailing lists are backed up in the backup package. They just aren’t restored. At least in the backups that I have seen.

You can extract just the mailing lists from the backup package:

tar -xvf /backup/cpbackup/daily/user.tar user/mma user/mms user/mm

or

tar -zxvf /backup/cpbackup/daily/user.tar.gz user/mma user/mms user/mm

replace user with the username of the account and replace /backup/cpbackup/daily/user.tar with the full path to the backup file.

This will create a subdirectory in the current directory called user and in that directory will be three subdirectories mm, mma, and mms.

mm will contain mailing lists for the account, the contents of this directory should be moved to /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists.

mma will contain mailing list archives for the mailing lists on this account. The contents of this directory should be moved to /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/archives.

mms will contain any suspended lists for the account, usually only happens if the account in question was suspended when the backup was created. The contents of this directory should be moved to /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/suspended.lists or /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists if you want the mailing list to be active.

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Safend, today announced a new release of Safend Encryptor, a hard-disk encryption solution that is a component of the Safend Data Protection Suite.

http://safend-security.blogspot.com/2009/04/safend-announces-safend-data-protection.html

 

VMware, Inc. today announced VMware vSphere™ 4

http://vmware-software.blogspot.com/2009/04/vmware-unveils-industrys-first.html

 

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. today announced a new high-end Power-1 series of Power-1 11000

http://checkpoint-security.blogspot.com/2009/04/check-point-introduces-new-high-end.html

 

WatchGuard Technologies today unveiled its new operating system for WatchGuard security appliances – WatchGuard Fireware XTM

http://watchguard-guardsite.blogspot.com/2009/04/watchguard-sets-new-standard-for.html

 

eEye Digital Security today announced the general availability of Blink Server 4

http://eeye-security.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-eeye-blink-server-4-edition-to.html

 

ZyXEL Communications Inc , today announced a high-end addition to its already powerful line of Unified Threat Management (UTM) products, the ZyWALL USG2000.

http://zyxelguard.blogspot.com/2009/04/zyxel-introduces-high-end-unified.html

 

FaceTime Communications today introduced FaceTime Insight™,

http://facetime-security.blogspot.com/2009/04/facetime-introduces-powerful.html

 

Marshal8e6 has today announced the acquisition of Avinti

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Internet Security Trends – Conficker Worm Expected to Influence Rise in Spam

 

As a provider of messaging and Web security technology, Commtouch released their most current quarterly “Internet Threat Trends” report last week. The report forecasts how computers infected by the Conficker worm could cause a meaningful rise in spam levels during the next quarter. Analysts report that around 15 million computers on a global scale have already been infected by multiple versions of the worm to date.

Here are the Q1 highlights at a glance:

• The Conficker worm infected more than 15 million computers since its first appearance last Fall.
• Loan spam jumped to the top of the list of top spam topics, with 28% this quarter.
• Users of social networking sites fell victim to new, more complex phishing attacks.
• Computers/Technology sites and Search engines/Portals are among the top 10 Web site categories infected with malware and/or manipulated by phishing.
• Brazil continues to lead in zombie computer activity, producing nearly 14% of zombies for the quarter.
• Spam levels averaged 72% of all email traffic throughout the quarter and peaked at 96% in early January. It then bottomed out at 65% in February.
• Spammers attacked large groups of an ISP’s users and moved to the next ISP in a targeted spam outbreak.
• An average of 302,000 zombies were activated each day for the purpose of malicious activity.

Download the full in depth report here.

Source: Commtouch

 

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All the week’s news and views about Security, 04/14/09

Twitter Worm Attack Continues: Here’s How to Keep Safe
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191582

The malicious worm affecting Twitter over the weekend has now
mutated and continues to invade the popular micro-blogging
network. Although Twitter is taking action against the problem,
security analysts fear that further mutations of the worm will
continue to wreak havoc on the network over the week.Read full
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E-mail Ellen mailto:emessmer@nww.com .

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Twitter wrestles with fourth worm attack
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Weekend worms strike Twitter, teen admits responsibility
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191584  Twitter was
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Saturday and continued into Sunday, the micro-blogging service
acknowledged as it promised users it would review its coding
practices.

1 in 5 Windows PCs still hackable by Conficker
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191585  Although the
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Windows bug, about 1 in 5 business computers still lack the
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Botlab keeping an eye on spamming botnets
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/40855  University of
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Botlab that monitors botnets to gain insight into a major
generator of spam.

Does Social Networking Require User Policy Changes?
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191586  IT security
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profiles are simply front companies for online mobsters and
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PCI security rules may require reinforcements
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191587  The PCI
standard, long touted as one of the private sector’s strongest
attempts to regulate itself on IT security, is increasingly
being slammed by critics who claim that the rules aren’t doing
enough to protect credit and debit card data.

Can the status quo threaten your LAN?
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191588  In times of
economic crisis people tend to seek the safety and security of
the status quo. “Doing what you’ve always done, and what
everyone else is doing, is the most prudent course,” goes the
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Security Tops IT Budget Priorities
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191589  Security is
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room in their budgets to invest in IT security initiatives,
according to a survey released Monday by Robert Half Technology.

Trend Micro dishes out security smorgasbord
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191590  Trend Micro
Monday dished out a smorgasbord of endpoint security products
that put the focus on Trend’s cloud-based architecture and its
partnership with systems-management vendor BigFix.

RSA upgrades data leak prevention suite
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191591  EMC’s RSA
division Monday announced an upgraded version of its data-leak
prevention suite, adding over twenty policy templates for
recognizing personal identifiable information in countries
around the world, including Spain and New Zealand.

Podcast: Prepping for Tougher Health Data Rules
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191592  As part of
the recent stimulus bill, the HITECH Act will create standard
electronic health records for every American by 2014, as well as
introduce strict new rules for the protection of these health
records. John Linkous from eIQnetworks discusses the components
of the act and how IT can start preparing now for the new
standards. (10:12)

User education key to IT security: Microsoft
http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal191593  With the
release of its latest Security Intelligence Report, Microsoft is
encouraging its partners and customers to become more security
aware and educated, as new attack tactics are on the rise.

Top Trends: Patch Management
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patch-management products work, and what they can do for you, in
this Product Guide.

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Kaspersky Lab announces the launch of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 for Ultra-Portables.

http://kasperskyav.blogspot.com/2009/03/kaspersky-lab-launches-comprehensive.html

 

Cymphonix announced Network Revealer

http://cymphonix.blogspot.com/2009/03/cymphonix-provides-free-tool-to-help-it.html

 

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Pure Digital Technologies, Makers of Flip Video

http://linksys-works.blogspot.com/2009/03/cisco-announces-intent-to-acquire-pure.html

 

SonicWALL, Inc. , today announced the immediate availability of its new E-Class Email Security Appliance (ESA) ES8300

http://sonic-wall.blogspot.com/2009/03/innovative-email-security-protection.html

 

IT security and control firm Sophos is warning computer users to be on their guard following the discovery of a new large scale malicious spam campaign posing as an email from courier firm DHL.

http://sophos-enterprise.blogspot.com/2009/03/spammers-exploit-dhl-in-another.html

 

Astaro today announced availability of version 2.0 of its Astaro Command Center.

http://astaro-security.blogspot.com/2009/03/astaro-command-center-20-improves-vpn.html

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