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Internet Explorer 8 remains the most used browser version in the world, so it should come as a surprise that a vulnerability discovered back in October 2013 has remained unpatched.  The vulnerability was made public earlier this week by Hewlett-Packard’s bug bounty program when Microsoft failed to address the problem. Hewlett-Packard’s Tipping Point Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) is a bounty program that rewards researchers who discover and report vulnerabilities so that they can be fixed by Microsoft.  The ZDI gives Microsoft 180 days to address a vulnerability before they make the…

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Germany, Weiterstadt, 21.05.2014) LSE LinOTP – a vendor-independent product for two-factor authentication and one-time password methods (OTP) – will be made available by LSE, Leading Security Experts GmbH, as an open source solution with all current features included. At the annual AusCERT Information Security Conference in Australia, and in conjunction with a Red Hat tutorial about the internal deployment of LSE LinOTP Enterprise Edition, LSE Leading Security Experts GmbH (LSE), a member of the MAX21 Group (MAX21 Management und Beteiligungen AG), will announce the expansion of its open source strategy.…

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Dimension Data Named Cisco’s First Global Intercloud Partner, Expanding on Successful 23-Year Relationship San Francisco – May 20, 2014 – Today at Cisco Live, Cisco and Dimension Data announced an expansion of their 23-year relationship with plans to accelerate and streamline hybrid cloud adoption globally. Cisco will use Dimension Data’s Managed Cloud Platform and SaaS solutions to deliver a suite of mid-market centric cloud services to its customers and resellers. Dimension Data and Cisco will partner to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution that will be packaged with Cisco technology and software-as-a-services (SaaS)…

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SAP is cutting jobs as it shifts its focus from traditional packaged software, increasingly shunned by companies, to providing application services through the cloud. The Germany-based company won’t say how many jobs are going, but the cuts do not represent an overall reduction in the workforce, SAP spokesman James Dever told The Wall Street Journal May 14. In fact, the company, which has 67,000 employees, expects to end the year with more workers. Job reductions will take place in less important divisions of the company as it realigns resources around its strategy of…

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You can’t always control what’s said about you on the Internet. But with enough money, you can influence what comes up in a search. “We can remove something that shouldn’t be there,” said Chris Dinota, the CEO and founder of Solvera Group. The cost for that service? Between $50,000 and $300,000, depending on the project, plus a monthly maintenance cost. While many less expensive services work to move negative content down and positive content up, Solvera will try to remove the negative links altogether and manage the search results. Dinota’s…

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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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