The United Kingdom has reiterated its openness to Chinese investment in the country's nuclear power industry, a senior British official has said. "Britain is the most open economy in the world, and that goes for our energy markets as ...
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There's a shortage computer hackers willing to fight back against cyber criminals on behalf of government and businesses, a former White House security chief has warned. "As with anything, it really comes down to human capital and there ...
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Virtualisation giant VMware will need "several data centres" in Europe to satisfy data privacy legislation across the EU and to allay any fears customers have over data location, according to VMware's senior vice president of hybrid cloud ...
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BlackBerry's co-founders, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin, are considering weighing in with a counter-bid for the ailing smartphone maker, according to a financial filing made on Thursday. A bid by the pair would represent an ...
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The chief of US spy organisation, the National Security Agency (NSA), Keith Alexander, believes that the US government needs to speed up the process of getting cyber security legislation in place in order to defend the US from attacks. ...
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Andrew Parker, Director General, MI5 The head of MI5 has said that the Prism data leaks scandal has damaged the UK’s efforts to counter terrorism. Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute in London last night, director ...
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A massive data centre being built by the National Security Agency in Utah has been plagued by “chronic electrical surges” that have destroyed equipment and delayed its opening for a year, according to a report Monday. The ...
Three cooperation agreements were signed between China and Afghanistan on Sunday. The signing ceremony took place in presence of President Hamid Karzai and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Dr. Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, Afghan advisor of ...
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Mayor Kevin Johnson of Sacramento, CA, chair of the Resilient Communities for America Campaign, unveiled a roadmap to resiliency at the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) National Leadership Speaker Series event. In a speech at the ...
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The idea that cloud computing providers could suffer as a result of the US National Security Agency's (NSA) policy of obtaining data from web companies as part of its Prism surveillance programme is a "red herring", argues Bobby Soni, chief ...
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Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras SA), one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, has emphasised that the tapping of its systems by the US National Security Agency (NSA) is a result of political, and not technical issues. The NSA has ...
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SAP is to circumvent any spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) in Brazil by building data centres in the South American country. In documents aired by Brazil's biggest television network, Globo, the NSA had a presentation dated ...
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Dr Phillip Hallam-Baker, a vice president and principal scientist in charge of web security software development at security software vendor Comodo, has published a paper calling for a more robust internet architecture that can combat web ...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Yahoo counterpart Marissa Mayer have both commented on the NSA Prism revelations, insisting that both web firms did as much as they could to resist governmental demands to reveal personal data of users. ...
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Facebook and Yahoo have asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for permission to publish details of national security requests they receive from the US government for user data. In a policy statement on Tumblr, Yahoo's ...