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ECJ ruling sees demand from paedophiles, stalkers and attempted murderers to remove links about them Google has received over 1,000 requests by people asking to have links to information about them removed. The influx of demand comes after a European Court of Justice ruling on Tuesday. According to reports from Sky News, the search company has had demands to take down information from “a man who tried to kill his family” to a convicted cyber stalker requesting a story about him to be removed. Also asking to be forgotten have been…

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Belgrade, 16 May 2014 – The Serbian government has opened dinar and foreign currency accounts at which those who want to help victims of floods can deposit money. Foto: Tanjug The assistance to those in need can be paid to the dinar account 840-3546721-89, purpose of payment: removal of consequences of the emergency situation – floods. The number of the foreign currency account at which the assistance for the removal of consequences of the emergency situation can be deposited is 01-504619-100193230-000000-0000. Payment instructions from outside of Serbia are available here. Source:…

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Tokenization in payments has been around for years. However, in recent months tokenization has once again become a buzzword within the financial industry which is looking to add tokens to the list of alternative payment methods using card data (cloud-based accounts, mobile wallets, Google HCE). The SPA considers that what’s different this time round is the standardization efforts taking place for online payments using tokens (for example, EMVCo, US Clearing House and new ANSI X.9 standard, PCI-DSS) and the fact that these efforts are being aligned with upcoming legal frameworks…

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The attack threw around 25 million packets of data at the victim’s server per second Infrastructure designed to protect organisations against DDoS attacks has been subverted and used carry out out the attacks it was trying to stop on an unnamed online gaming company. The attack was launched from servers based in Canada and China. the servers themselves were part of an anti-DDoS protection system. The attack, discovered by IT security company Incapsula, was mounted on an online gaming company. At its peak, the attack threw around 25 million packets…

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Rush to patch Heartbleed bug causes sites to make dangerous errors The majority of sites that attempted to protect themselves against Heartbleed have ended up no better for it, while some are actually more vulnerable than before. Following Heartbleed’s reveal on 7 April, sites scrambled to patch their OpenSSL installations and revoke their old certificates. Now, data from a study conducted by Netcraft shows that many sites haven’t done enough to fully protect themselves from the bug. Some 30,000 sites revoked their old certificates but did not replace their private keys, according…

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Brussels – 14 May 2014. – Today, telecom operator Mobistar is officially launching its 4G network throughout the territory of all 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region. Mobistar guarantees an outdoor coverage of 96 %. In addition, Mobistar is also offering in Brussels a significant coverage of 53 % inside buildings. Mobistar confirms herewith its strategy of officially opening the 4G network in new cities only when an indoor coverage of more than 50 % can be guaranteed. The quality of the 4G network in the Brussels-Capital Region will progressively…

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Integrated approach and roadmap of organic innovation produce unparalleled defenses and more value   MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 5, 2014 – Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced an entirely new approach to advanced threat protection (ATP), unveiling a roadmap of integrated solutions that demonstrates the security innovation power that only it can deliver to help customers solve their most complex problems. This approach is fueled by two new offerings, Symantec Managed Security Services -Advanced Threat Protection and Symantec Advanced Threat Protection Solution, which correlate alerts and intelligence across a range of security…

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Eight bulletins for this month’s patch Tuesday Critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Sharepoint are to be fixed in Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. The two critical updates cover flaws in IE7 and above as well as Sharepoint. The remaining six bulletins cover flaws marked as “important”. Three remote code execution vulnerabilities will be addressed; two of these are marked critical, meaning the flaws can be exploited by hackers without user interaction. The remote code execution flaw affects Internet Explorer from version 6 to IE 11 on all Windows platforms, according to…

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Error messages punish people for not behaving like machines. It is time we let people behave like people. When a problem arises, we should call it machine error, not human error: the machine was designed wrong, demanding that we conform to its peculiar requirements. It is time to design and build machines that conform to our requirements. Stop confronting us: Collaborate with us. I hate error messages. They are insulting, condescending, and worst of all, completely unnecessary. Evil, nasty little things. They cause us to do unneeded work, and often…

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Company plans to accelerate up to 8 startups in Dublin as part of the first intake; applications accepted through May 16 For startup companies, success is a journey that requires collaboration and innovation. Today, MasterCard is launching MasterCard Start Path, a commitment to help accelerate startups toward long-term success by offering customized support, operational mentorship and the potential to secure pilots with key global players. In Europe, MasterCard is launching a commerce-focused accelerator for innovative early stage European startups with direct involvement from leading partners including ASOS and Capital One, amongst…

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