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“Our records indicate that a very small number of downloads actually occurred, and we are working with those few customers to remove the files,” he said in a statement. “This issue applied to Offline Address Book information only, and no other information was affected. Offline Address Book contains an organization’s business contact information for employees. It does not contain Outlook personal contacts, e-mail, documents or other types of information.”
The statement above was done by Clint Patterson, Microsoft’s director of BPOS Communications last week.
Apparently the offline address book of Exchange Online could be inadvertently downloaded by other customers of the service. No emails or any other information was at risk at any moment.
Microsoft claimed the issue was resolved within two hours of being discovered. However, during this time "a very small number" of illegitimate downloads occurred. "We are working with those few customers to remove the files," Patterson said.
Only customers of BPOS Standard were affected, showing us both the dangers of a cloud and a shared environment.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a fan of cloud computing, but a shared environment of identity information introduces risks – as shown here.
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Tal Ater from Green Any Site, found a hidden (?) piece of code when he was writing an application for Facebook. It is a programmable object called ‘VideoChat’. The object has several properties, some of them are related to Skype.
You can read the full entry here.
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I have just read this on the The Microsoft Office Blog by Office VP Takeshi Numoto:
“Facebook‘s new messaging platform integrates the Office Web Apps to enable Facebook users to view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents with just one click. As you know, Office helps you create stunning documents that bring your ideas to life. Now you can easily share those ideas with your friends and family on Facebook. I’m really excited about being able to make it even easier for people to use Office to access and share information across different devices, networks and platforms. With the Office Web Apps on Facebook, you have even more ways to express yourself with Office and easily share your thoughts with people that are important to you.
When you receive a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document attachment in your Facebook message, click "View on Office.com" to view it in the browser in high fidelity via Office Web Apps or click "Download" to download the file to your computer (where you can open it in Office on your computer).”