Chinese government on Thursday promised to process investment applications in much shorter time by reforming its approval system. Currently a company will need stamps from more than 30 government departments before its investment project ...
Nearly 6 million people are newly insured -- 2.1 million privately insured and 4 million in government insurance plans -- U.S. health officials said Tuesday. "The most recent data indicate more than 2.1 million people have enrolled in a ...
Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the group against corporate and government websites in 2011. Ryan Cleary , 21, Jake Davis, 20, ...
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A 35-year-old Dutch man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on antispam organization Spamhaus was extradited from Spain to the Netherlands on Monday evening, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said Wednesday. A judge in ...
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Hackers working under the name of the Anonymous hacktivist collective hit a U.S. government website on Saturday, replacing its home page with a 1,340 word text detailing its frustrations with the way the American legal system works and a ...
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H.E. Major General Dr. Abdul Quddus Abdul Razak Obaidli, President of the EIPA, and Wesam Al Abbas Lootah, Assistant Director-General, Dubai eGovernment Dubai eGovernment on Saturday announced that it had signed a memorandum of ...
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Olympic CIO Gerry Pennell and Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox are included in this year’s New Year honours list Martha Lane Fox, who advises government on digital strategies, including the move to a single domain for ...
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A team of researchers has created a proof-of-concept piece of malware that can give attackers control of USB smart card readers attached to an infected Windows computer over the Internet. The malware installs a special driver on the ...
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1. How to protect trade secrets and processes? The best thing your company can do is to only disseminate trade secrets to those who have a need to know the information. When outsourcing manufacturers you may consider separating your ...
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Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
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IDG News Service - The Supreme Court in the Philippines has temporarily restrained the government from enforcing a new controversial cyber law, in response to petitions from civil rights and journalists groups in the country. In a ...
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Two government departments have migrated onto the Gov.uk site, as part of the first moves to bring all departmental information under a single domain. The home pages of the Department for Transport and the Department for Communities and ...
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Web hosting providers from the U.S., Canada and other Western nations have been hosting official Syrian government websites, in violation of sanction orders from the U.S. and other governments, according to a Canadian Web research ...
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Provider of benefits, insurance and wealth management services, National Financial Partners (NFP) has introduced an online, interactive tool, Benefits Compliance Portal to provide customizable benefits compliance reports for ...
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The hactivist group Anonymous reacted angrily to the?Internet shutdown this week in Syria, an act attributed to the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the civil war there. Anonymous declared war on the Syrian regime, ...
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