TechAmerica Big Data Report Highlights Confusion, Need for R&D Strategy
A report from the TechAmerica Foundation’s Federal Big Data Commission says big data can be defined through identifying four major characteristics, ZDNet reports. Leaders and commissioners came from companies including IBM, SAP, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, EMC, NetApp, Grant Thornton and Computer Sciences Corp., according to Andrew Brust’s story. The report said that [...]
CSC Signs IT Agreement with Telenor Sweden Providing Leveraging BizCloud
October 19, 2011 No CommentComputer Sciences Corp. has signed a five-year IT operations outsourcing agreement with Telenor Sweden, a major Sweden mobile operator. This follows a previous agreement from 2010 in which CSC assumed management of Telenor’s rating, billing, mediation and customer relationship management systems. Per the new agreement, CSC will implement its on-premise private cloud solution, BizCloud, in order [...]
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The Justice Department and the FBI, along with international law enforcement partners, have announced the indictment of two individuals from Latvia and the seizure of more than 40 computers, servers and bank accounts as part of Operation Trident Tribunal, a coordinated enforcement effort targeting global cyber crime. The operation targeted international cyber crime rings that [...]
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Cyber crooks are taking advantage of Minnesota’s connection to Sweden to steal from its citizens by using state’s Attorney General Lori Swanson’s name to lure potential victims into believing they have inherited money or property from a long-lost relative in the North Star State. According to Star Tribune, Swanson’s office says the email is written [...]
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In the wake of large-scale online attacks on U.S. companies, such as MasterCard and Visa, which pulled support from whistle-blower site WikiLeaks, the British government is hunkering down over fears of similarly disruptive Internet activity on U.K. sites, a New Zealand newspaper reported. The New Zealand Herald reports U.K. National Security Adviser Peter Ricketts announced [...]
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Hacker coalition Anonymous has launched a slew of cyber assaults against what it perceives to be enemies of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including a DDoS attack on PayPal, which recently stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks in the wake of the release of U.S. embassy cables. Anonymous said it will “offer Wikileaks an additional mirror and [...]
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Sweden would never have been able to protect itself against a worm like Stuxnet, and an attack by a similarly complex malware on the kingdom’s critical infrastructure would have had devastating–even fatal–consequences, warns a cybersecurity expert. TrueSec‘s security expert Marcus Murray told Dagens Nyheter the 1.18 megabyte virus that infected personal computers at Iran’s nuclear [...]
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Survey: Global Variations in Online-Threat Perception, Few Understand Term ‘Rogueware’
September 9, 2010 1 CommentA survey commissioned by F-Secure in Finland, Germany, Malaysia, Poland, Sweden, the UK and the United States has uncovered some intriguing international variations in how Internet users perceive threats. Asked how concerned they are about their online privacy and data security, Germans (77 percent) and Malaysians (73 percent) expressed the most concern, while the Swedes [...]
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With nearly 4 million Facebook members, Sweden has one of the highest rates of users of the popular social-networking site. But as familiar as the Swedes are with online networking, many will still fall victim to cyber crime and scams, according to a recent study. Swedish IT security company Check Point Sverige examined how easily [...]
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