19-year-old Canadian arrested over Heartbleed attack

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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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SAP thrives on cloud business, but strong euro a worry

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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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The future of CIOs looks bright

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The IT department is fast becoming a brokerage house, an intermediary between buyers (as in lines of business managers) and sellers (as in cloud service providers). More than one-third of IT departments already act primarily as services brokers, and this model is expected to expand rapidly in the next 12 months, according to new research commissioned by Avanade, a managed services provider. The idea of IT as a brokerage is just one aspect of the emerging role of the new CIO, one that looks more like a consultancy to the business rather…

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Platform-as-a-Strategy: It’s All About Business Capabilities

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Developing Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a vital part of corporate IT operations these days as such operations strive to become more responsive to their internal business customers by shedding the traditional model for IT-as-a-Service. Through the EMC Federation, we have multiple options that we have embraced to support both new and legacy capabilities, including Cloud Foundry from Pivotal which is well-positioned for the Third Platform supporting multiple Big Data and mobility needs and VMware tools supporting the automation of public, hybrid and private cloud management. While we embrace all of these…

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Intel Reports First-Quarter Revenue of $12.8 Billion Operating Income of $2.5 Billion, Up 1 Percent Year-Over-Year

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Intel Corporation today reported first-quarter revenue of $12.8 billion, operating income of $2.5 billion, net income of $1.9 billion and EPS of 38 cents. The company generated approximately $3.5 billion in cash from operations, paid dividends of $1.1 billion, and used $545 million to repurchase 22 million shares of stock. “In the first quarter we saw solid growth in the data center, signs of improvement in the PC business, and we shipped 5 million tablet processors, making strong progress on our goal of 40 million tablets for 2014,” said Intel…

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Airlines and Airports Invest in Business Intelligence But Must Do More to Avoid Problems

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All airlines and 90 percent of airports are investing in business intelligence systems to better serve the needs of their passengers, although more progess is needed to make these investments count, according to air industry IT supplier Sita. According to Sita research, more than half of passengers would use their mobiles for flight status, baggage status and airport directions, and by 2016 the majority of airlines and airports will offer these services using business intelligence analytics, said Sita. Sita’s research shows flight status updates are already a mainstream mobile service…

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IDC Health Insights Predicts WE Investments in Clinical Mobility Will Reach $2.4 Billion in 2014

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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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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 arrives with in-memory technology

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Firm also launches Analytics Platform System Microsoft has unveiled a handful of business intelligence products at its customer event in San Francisco. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, took the stage to announce SQL Server 2014, the Analytics Platform System (APS) and Azure Intelligent Systems Service. SQL Server 2014 This is the 12th edition of the world’s most used database. It marks the first time Microsoft has built in-memory technology into every workload for faster processing. This follows in the footsteps of SAP’s HANA platform. Nadella was keen to play up the importance of…

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OpenSSL founder warns more support and funding needed to prevent another Heartbleedurce

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Major users of OpenSSL need to flash cash to avoid more bugs One of the founders of OpenSSL has slammed the industry for not giving the project more financial support in the wake of the Heartbleed disaster. Steve Marquess, OpenSSL Software Foundation president said in a blog post that the OpenSSL needed money for half a dozen full-time employees rather than the one it has currently. Donations have been coming into the OpenSSL Software Foundation after last week’s discovery of a major flaw in OpenSSL, dubbed Heartbleed, but these have been mostly from…

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EUnetHosting customers are protected from Heartbleed SSL bug

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Recently the public has become aware of Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL software, which is mostly used online for encryption of traffic between the clients (PC, tablet, smartphone) and server (Apache server is used by more than a half of all websites online).  We were interested to find out whether the customers who use domestic hosting providers were protected. We asked our largest hosting provider EUnet several key questions and these were answered by Aleksandar Jovičić, Senior System Engineer, who holds a position of Linux Team Manager in EUnetHosting. Internet ogledalo: To…

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