Every Friday here on In The Personal Cloud we’ll be presenting a roundup of links highlighting popular and rising news stories from the world of the cloud and online security. Everything from news regarding hacking and how to be secure to advancements in the field of cloud computing. Stay tuned to In The Personal Cloud each Friday to remain up to date on everything you need to know.

How Cloud Computing is Shaping Your Business, How Business is Shaping the Cloud – A new report shows us that as businesses are learning to fit into the cloud, cloud computing is also evolving to be more business friendly. As cloud computing matures and more business adopts the technology we’ll see further integration of the two. CMS Wire reports on what exciting new features we can expect.
[CMS Wire]
Bitfender Analyzes State of Security: From State Attacks to Android to Social Media – Bitfender, one of the worlds leading antivirus solution providers, has released a report analyzing the state on internet security. Market Wire goes over the report and tells us what to watch out for in 2013.
[Market Wire]
Cloud Computing in 2013: Two Warnings – 2013 will bring a lot of advances to the cloud. Unfortunately for us, InfoWorld has predicted two problems related to one phenomenon: price wars. Read the article to find out what InfoWorld predicts can happen as companies compete for the lowest prices.
[InfoWorld]
Is Cloud Computing Killing Open Source Software – Open source is one of the greatest catalysts of innovation any type of technology can have. The ability of any user or company to manipulate and create allows new types of technology to be discovered. Is cloud computing hurting open source software though? CloudTweaks tells us their thoughts.
[CloudTweaks]

Cloud: Security Threat or Solution? – Some security suppliers are looking at cloud computing to give them the competitive edge in detecting and mitigating previously unknown threats in near real time. Can the cloud tackle these new and emerging cyber threats, or is this just a new round of security industry marketing hype?
[Computer Weekly]
