Botnet whack-a-mole just might work

	Amazon Web Services updates Linux implementation | Motorola refuses Microsoft bond to keep Windows 7 in German market
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	Botnet whack-a-mole just might work The security industry upped the ante against criminal bot operators this week. On Wednesday, security firm Kaspersky reported it had disrupted a botnet consisting of 110,000 computers infected with Kelihos, or Hlux, bot program. Two days earlier, Microsoft announced it had shut down a large network of computers compromised with the Zeus banking trojan. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Why Run Windows Server Apps on AWS? Top 5 Reasons: 1. No New Hardware, 2. Get Started in Minutes, 3. Use Your .NET Skills in the AWS Cloud, 4. On-Demand Test Environments, and 5. Use your Existing Microsoft Licenses. Learn more with on-demand webinar. Watch now! In this Issue Amazon Web Services updates Linux implementation Motorola refuses Microsoft bond to keep Windows 7 in German market RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! Amazon Web Services updates Linux implementation Amazon Web Services has upgraded the Linux image that runs in its cloud to include newer versions of Tomcat, MySQL, and Python, while at the same time allowing enterprises to stay on older versions, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Allowing enterprises to run different versions of applications and programming languages has been one of the major goals with version 2012.03 of the Amazon Linux AMI (Amazon Machine Image). It allows code that relies on different versions to migrate from older AMIs with minimal changes, according to Amazon. Read More Motorola refuses Microsoft bond to keep Windows 7 in German market Motorola refused Microsoft's offer of a $300 million bond to postpone enforcement of potential German injunctions against Microsoft products that use the H.264 video codec, which if granted could exclude Microsoft from the German market, according to court documents filed on Wednesday. Microsoft could lose its rights to distribute in Germany products that use the H.264 video standard and the 802.11 WiFi standard, pending a court ruling on April 17. According to Motorola, those products infringe on its patents. Read More
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