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According to the ‘Financial cyber threats in 2013’ study carried out by Kaspersky Lab, financial malware targeting Bitcoin became extremely popular in 2013. The number of attacks targeting the crypto-currency increased more than 2.5 times and accounted for 8.3 million incidents. Bitcoin was created especially for making anonymous e-payments and has become extremely popular over the last few years. In early 2013, the Bitcoin exchange rate was $13.6. By December it reached a record peak, exceeding $1,200. During the year several slumps occurred, but since April 2013 the price of…

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Solution Helps Defends Against Known Intrusions, Protect from Unknown Attacks and Guard Against Advanced Persistent Threats In today’s world of cloud, mobile, social and the Internet of Everything, customers face new security challenges as they work to protect their most important asset – data. Cisco today announced Managed Threat Defense, a managed security solution that applies real-time, predictive analytics to detect attacks and protect against advanced malware across customers’ extended networks. According to the Cisco® Annual Security Report, in a sample of 30 of the world’s largest multinational company networks all…

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All eyes and ears will be on Satya Nadella, now in his third month as CEO, on his first appearance on the Microsoft earnings call. It’s not exactly a shocker that Satya Nadella will anchor Microsoft’s third-quarter earnings call Thursday, but folks will be listening carefully to what he has to say — expecting him to hold fast to his broad strategy of device independence, as long as those devices hook into Microsoft’s Azure cloud. His predecessor, Steve Ballmer, was not a fixture on these calls. As one insider put it, the former CEO…

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Report finds nearly half of providers subjected to brute force attacks from criminals Attacks against cloud platforms and their providers are on the rise, according to a recently published report. The research, carried out by Alert Logic, shows cloud hosting provider (CHP) environments saw a significant increase in action, with brute force attacks climbing from 30 per cent to 44 per cent of customers, and vulnerability scans increasing from 27 per cent to 44 per cent. It said these kinds of attacks have historically been far more likely to target…

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Citizens in Serbia have gained a new electronic database, which provides quick, easy and simple way to learn about the documents related to the field of environment that are possessed by different institutions, enterprises and organizations in the country, as well as how to gain access to such documents.   The database was named “Ecoregister”, or the “National Metaregister for Environmental Information”, and it can be accessed on the Internet at the following address: www.ekoregistаr.sepа.gov.rs . Ecoregister represents at the same time an electronic database and a portal to the existing databases…

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Allows customers to automatically replicate infrastructure in one of VMware datacentres VMware has launched Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service from its vCloud Hybrid Service’s five datacentres. The will enable end users to access a disaster recover service to protect them from on-premise failures. VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery will cost firms $835 a month including 1TB of storage with 10GHz vCPU and 20GB of vRAM (in a mult-tenant configuration). VMware said the low price meant customers could avoid owning tertiary datacentres for DR purposes and would also protect applications that were previously vulnerable…

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Education There was a time when pupils used a pen to enter sentences, essays, mathematical formulas into their notebooks – now they can directly enter tables, images, and even links to videos into an electronic workbook. Instead of using pocket or rucksack, children carry an online notebook in their mobile phone, tablet or computer, and they can access it no matter where they are. In some schools, teaching using electronic notebook has already become a regular occurrence, and the teachers have become used to communicating with students in this way.…

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirm arrest after tax agency attack Canadian police have arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him in connection with exploiting the Heartbleed bug to steal taxpayer data from a government website. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed the arrest yesterday. In what appeared to be the first report of an attack using a flaw in software known as OpenSSL, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) said this week that about 900 social insurance numbers and possibly other data had been compromised as a result of an attack on…

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Europe’s largest software maker, SAP, has reported its cloud business has been making big strides, with revenues and underlying profit rising. But a strong euro has once again dented quarterly earnings. Germany’s SAP reported Thursday it had been able to expand its thriving licensed software business in the first quarter of the year. Turnover from its cloud-based applications rose by 32 percent year-on-year to 221 million euros ($305.8 million). The Walldorf-based company indicated growth prospects for the segment were still huge, with SAP’s cloud business only accounting for some 6 percent of…

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IDC Health Insights recently revealed Western European healthcare providers’ 2014 clinical mobility trends and investments in a report, How European Healthcare Providers Progress Along the 4Cs of Clinical Mobility (IDCHI #HIOH02W, March 2014). Based on the results of a survey of 179 healthcare IT and non-IT executives in Western Europe, this study analyzes the readiness of Western European providers for mobile, looking at their current adoption and investment plans in key technologies that will enable a comprehensive clinical mobility strategy. IDC Health Insights finds that European healthcare providers are focusing…

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