Web 2.0 brings set of security concerns

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Oct 1, 20072 mins

Security: As companies continue adopting new Web 2.0 technologies including online collaboration, social networking, file-sharing, a new report from Forrester Research found that Web 2.0 security concerns abound. For starters, fewer than 5 percent of companies claim to have taken any specific measures to protect users of the technologies. What’s more, only one-third of respondents have any manner of data leakage protection in place.

From the Test Center: Pushing itself into the rich Internet applications space and joining the likes of Adobe Flex, Flash, OpenLaszlo, Curl and myriad AJAX tools, Microsoft’s Silverlight 1.0 would be a good fit for a “site that could benefit from its new features and was intended for viewing on Windows and Mac computers. I wouldn’t hesitate to use Silverlight 1.0, especially if I had a development staff familiar with Visual Studio and XAML,” Martin Heller writes in Silverlight rivals AJAX, Flash. “On the other hand, I wouldn’t spend the time and money needed to convert an existing Flash or Flex site to Silverlight 1.0.”

Video: InfoWorld Web producer Kwansah Madani fills in for Gina Smith in The Week Ahead. Computer underground, E-Crime ’07, Adobe Max 2007 fill the bill. And, of course, Cringe waxes the last word on Apple CEO Steve Jobs being subpoenaed. Watch it here.

Best of the blogs: What with Microsoft extending the availability of Windows XP for six months, Sean Gallagher writes, “this isn’t a major surprise.” Very true. Plenty of folks are following analyst firms’ predictable suggestions and waiting until at least the first service pack, if not longer, to start thinking about Vista. XP stands for Xtended Play. When June 2008 rolls around and brings XP’s curtain call, demand for the OS will not immediately subside. “Considering there are still companies using Windows 2000 for some applications, XP’s exit will be a long and drawn-out affair,” Gallagher explains.