Terremark Expands Brazilian Data Center
Terremark, a Verizon company, today announced the latest expansion of its São Paulo, Brazil data center in an attempt to meet continual customer demand for their IT infrastructure solutions in Latin America. The NAP do Brasil is now capable of housing approximately 100,000 servers making it the one of the largest multi-tenant data centers in the [...]
A strong demand for technology has helped push the United States to lead the industry globally, taking first place from third just a year ago, according to a new survey. Although the senior technology executives polled in KPMG LLP‘s annual Technology Industry Business Climate survey said they perceive the U.S. market driving revenue growth, they [...]
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The infamous hacker group Lulz Security has taken credit for yet another cyber attack. This time around, the Brazilian government came under attack in the ongoing onslaught of cyber attacks targeting companies and organizations around the world, according to Reuters. The sites for Brazil’s federal government, presidency and tax collection agency were inaccessible for about [...]
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Defense contractor BAE Systems is looking for acquisitions in the electronics, cybersecurity and intelligence fields to boost the company’s growth strategy, chairman Dick Olver told Reuters. BAE is “always scanning and looking at opportunities where we can reinforce the good bits of business which are in line with our strategy,” Olver said. That strategy, he [...]
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Officials say hackers tried to take the Brazilian government’s website off the air a day after President Dilma Rousseff was sworn in, according to The Associated Press. The government said in a statement the DDoS attack Sunday caused the website to become unstable, but it was never off the air. The attack “did not put [...]
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Europe is now the top spam-producing country in the world, bypassing North and South Americas, and Asia-Pacific, according to the Trend Micro semi-annual 2010 threat report. Spam continued to grow between January and June 2010, stalling briefly during April. Despite common perception, porn consists of only 4 percent of all spam. Commercial, scams-based and health/medical [...]
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In an effort to fight cyber terrorism in Brazil, Panda Security has signed an agreement to support the training of the Brazilian Army’s operational agents engaged in the battle against Internet-based crime and strategic intervention for cyber warfare. Panda Security will also provide endpoint protection to 37,500 computers belonging to the Army’s Military Commands to [...]
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