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Ramnit malware evolved from Windows attack-app to a social-network surfer that steals Facebook logins and free access to corporate nets using comparatively insecure user accounts in the cloud to get passwords or authentication without directly attacking corporate accounts.

Most surveys show cloud computing is catching on so fast pollsters and providers can't keep up. A new one showing users with little enthusiasm except for specific services shows how big the difference is in segments that aren't really part of one "cloud market" at all.

Cloud-based PHP "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) vendor AppFog on Thursday announced an $8 million round of venture funding.

Open-source code, support for a variety of tools and databases, available in your data center or someone else's, Cloud Foundry aims at Azure's weaknesses without adding too many of VMware's.

Microsoft execs slam Amazon's approach to cloud as insufficiently innovative or cost effective, even as Microsoft's Azure strives to imitate it.

Open-source version of Rackspace's OpenStack cloud platform may make core functions common enough to help standardize the excessively heterogeneous cloud market.

Microsoft's Azure is designed to make it easy to run .NET apps; now you can also launch VMs to run regular apps, too. That may seem like a small change; it's not.