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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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Romtelecom and COSMOTE Romania announce key performance indicators for Q1 2014, ended March 31st, 2014, as reported by the OTE Group. “Q1 2014 figures for both companies reflect the first results of the strategy we have put in place for this year. Namely, on the fixed segment, the company focused on increasing the penetration of TV services. This is reflected into constant customer growth rate: 7.3% in Q1 2014 versus Q1 2013. On the business segment, the turn-key solutions for large companies had significant results in Romtelecom’s revenues. On the…

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VMware has finally launched Cloud Foundry on its vCloud Hybrid Service cloud alongside a broader partnership with big daddy EMC. The virtualization company’s chief executive Pat Gelsinger said on Tuesday at EMC World in Las Vegas that Cloud Foundry will soon be available on top of the company’s vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) cloud. Cloud Foundry is a platform-as-a-service developed by VMware-spinoff Pivotal that has some open source components, including a standalone PaaS project. It competes with similar technologies such as Red Hat’s “OpenShift” PaaS, along with the Rackspace-backed OpenStack Solum…

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With the Cost of Data Breaches and Advanced Persistent Threats on the Rise, IBM Helps Clients Detect, Prevent and Respond to Attacks ARMONK, N.Y. – 05, May 2014:  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced comprehensive new security software and services to help organizations protect their critical data in an environment where advanced persistent threats, zero day attacks, breaches and resulting costs to organizations are growing. Through pervasive behavioral analytics and deep research expertise, IBM can help organizations stop attackers from exploiting these vulnerabilities. According to two IBM-commissioned surveys announced today from…

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Most security pros believe attackers are able to dodge defenses. Companies can better protect themselves by sharing threat intel within their industries. Over the past three years, the IT security community has gradually come to the consensus that every company should assume that their systems have been breached. While the lack of faith in their technology, tools and people may, on some level, be practical, it should not be a reason to give up, security experts stress. The latest report from the Ponemon Institute released this week shows, for example,…

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Sure sign of system compromise No. 10: Your bank account is missing money I mean lots of money. Online bad guys don’t usually steal a little money. They like to transfer everything or nearly everything, often to a foreign exchange or bank. Usually it begins by your computer being compromised or from you responding to a fake phish from your bank. In any case, the bad guys log on to your bank, change your contact information, and transfer large sums of money to themselves. What to do: In most cases…

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