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Microsoft on Tuesday announced it was joining the   Eclipse Foundation   as a solutions member. Membership will enable the company to collaborate more closely with the Eclipse community, which has more than 240 members. It also provides an outlet for delivering tools and services for all development teams. Microsoft will be able to improve its cloud services, SDKs and tools, according to Shanku Niyogi, general manager of the Visual Studio team. "It is clear that Microsoft is a changed company and is now willing to engage developers in their existing communities," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "I do not see any immediate change at Eclipse or the open source community as a whole resulting from this," he told LinuxInsider. History With Eclipse Microsoft already delivers a number of Eclipse-based tools, including the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse and Java  SDK  for Azure, which enables Eclipse users to build cloud applic...

By All Tricks Cybercriminals from countries like Pakistan, China, Bangladesh and the US are mostly involved in hacking and launching attacks on computer networks of Indian organisations, Parliament was informed in New Delhi. Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said attackers are compromising computer systems in different parts of the world and use masquerading techniques and hidden servers to hide the identity of actual systems from which the attacks are launched. "In such cases, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) notifies the concerned organisation regarding the cyber-attacks and requests for logs of network devices, servers and other related components for analysing the attacks and identifying sources of attack," he said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. Analysis of attack methology is done based on available log provided by the organisations, he added. "According to the logs as analysed and m...