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Britons Feel Extremely Violated by Cybercrime Yet Most Still Don't Use Basic Security Measures
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Over half of Britons have been the victim of an online crime, this according to a poll released on Tuesday by Get Safe Online for its cybercrime awareness week. People now feel online crimes are as serious as "physical world" crimes and 50...
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SingleHop Launches VMware-based Virtual Private Cloud
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Managed cloud hosting provider SingleHop announced on Tuesday that it has launched its new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) infrastructure service. The offering leverages enterprise technologies from VMware, Veeam, EMC and others to provide a scalable...
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Microsoft Announces Azure Cloud Updates and Partnerships Aimed at Handling High-Performance Workloads
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
This week, Microsoft has added several enhancements to its cloud offerings including a new Azure Marketplace, "G-series" Azure virtual machines and premium storage, a pre-built "cloud-in-a-box" solution called Cloud Platform System, as well...
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Outage of Vietnamese News Sites Caused by Country's Largest Attack Ever
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
A joint investigation by leading Vietnamese web host VCCorp and police has determined that a massive outage last week was caused by an attack which is being called the largest ever cyberattack in Vietnam. VCCorp hosts numerous Vietnamese news sites,...
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Mirantis Gains $100M in the Largest Series-B Investment Round in Open-Source Software History
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Mirantis, which specializes in OpenStack cloud software, has been given $100 million in a Series-B funding round, which will be used to double its engineering investments as well as to accelerate expansion in Europe and Asia-Pacific, hire support...
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Bowery Simplifies Development, Announces Seed Funding
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Web development software startup Bowery has launched desktop app Bowery 3 and received $1.5 million in a seed funding round, the company announced Tuesday. Bowery 3 syncs code with an automatically provisioned AWS server to allow developers to write...
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Microsoft Unleashes the Power of Azure Cloud Computing on Ebola
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Microsoft Azure for Research is a project that allows researchers to utilize Microsoft resources to perform experiments in the cloud. Typically, scientists submit proposals on such topics as climate data and machine learning but Monday Microsoft...
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RightSignature Acquisition Gives Customers Digital Signature Option with Citrix ShareFile
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Citrix ShareFile provides an electronic service to digitize and store documents. The company announced yesterday that it acquired cloud-based electronic signature company RightSignature to extend it's ShareFile product line to include e-signature....
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Bitnet Technologies Raises $14.5M to Build Its Enterprise-Focused Bitcoin Payment Platform
Monday, October 20, 2014
Bitnet Technologies, a startup that allows enterprise-scale merchants to accept bitcoin payments, has closed a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Highland Capital Partners, and with the participation of Japan's largest ecommerce site,...
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Chinese Government iCloud Cyberattack Could Further Erode Confidence in Cloud Providers
Monday, October 20, 2014
Censorship watch dog GREATFIRE.org reported on Monday that the Chinese government launched a cyberattack against iCloud as the new iPhones officially launch in China. The attack is a nationwide man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. The organization...