Dec, 2016 : Microsoft First to Adopt New Code Signing Guidelines

📅 December 12, 2016 - The Certificate Authority Security Council has released new requirements for Certificate Authorities, the first standardized code signing guidelines.

Microsoft is the first company to adopt these new guidelines.

Dean J. Coclin the Senior Director of Business Development at Symantec said, “Previously, there were no standards, which meant that if one CA rejected a company's application, that company could submit the same application to a different CA. The Minimum Requirements for Code Signing will improve all CAs' ability to identify the publishers and authenticate that the code is unchanged.”

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📅 Dec 12, 2016 - President Obama Starts Investigation into Potential Election Hacking - Recently, President Barack Obama announced he will have the U.S. Intelligence Agencies looking into the potential hacking attacks on the recent election. The report will be given to Congress, but may not be released to the public. The belief is that the hacking came from Russians.

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📅 Dec 13, 2016 - DreamObjects from DreamHost Receives an Upgrade - DreamHost, a web hosting company, has upgraded the DreamObjects storage service they offer. The new upgrades make the service more reliable and scalable, along with giving it a performance boost.

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📅 Dec 13, 2016 - Flywheel Acquires Pressmatic to Expand its’ WordPress Reach - A recent announcement stated that Flywheel, a WordPress hosting and management company, has acquired Pressmatic, a local WordPress manager. The acquisition has changed the name of Pressmatic to Local by Flywheel and the served is now offered for free.

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📅 Dec 13, 2016 - Amazon Introduces AWS Managed Services - Amazon introduced AWS Managed Services on Monday. AWS Managed Services will provide a suite of automated services including change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services.

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