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Survey: IT Workers Not Confident in Federal Data Center Reliability
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Data center reliability is a top federal agency priority, but a recent survey by MeriTalk found that government IT workers don't have too much confidence in federal data center uptime. Read More...
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Australian Tax Office to Treat Bitcoins like Shares, Not Currency
Thursday, August 21, 2014
The Australian Tax Office is going to start treating bitcoins like shares, according to a Wednesday announcement. The guidance was delivered now to allow Australians to include cryptocurrencies on their 2013-2014 tax returns. Read More...
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How to Keep Your Data Secure Even If You Don't Trust Your Web Host
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Whether a hosting provider goes out of business unexpectedly or a customer loses trust in their provider, mobility and multi-vendor redundancy are just two factors that could help them prepare for the worst case scenario and keep their data safe. ...
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Heartbleed Exploit Could Have Enabled Massive Healthcare Security Breach: Report
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
A hack on a US healthcare company which gave attackers 4.5 million records may have begun with the Heartbleed exploit, according to security research firm TrustedSec. The data breach was revealed in a regulatory filing by Community Health Systems...
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Microsoft Azure Outages May be Problematic for New Cloud Service Offerings
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Microsoft Azure has experienced a number of service outages in August including another one Monday that lasted for five hours.
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GoDaddy Aims to Improve Email Marketing Product with Mad Mimi Acquisition
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
In a move designed to give its small business customers more tools to get noticed online, GoDaddy announced on Wednesday that it has acquired email marketing platform Mad Mimi for an undisclosed amount.
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As STARTTLS Adoption Grows, Facebook Reports Huge Jump in Encrypted Notification Emails
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Facebook notification emails are encrypted 95 percent of the time with Perfect Forward Secrecy and strict certificate validation, up from less than 30 percent in May of this year. The dramatic improvement is largely due to changes made by major email...
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Ecommerce Platform WebLinc Grabs $6 Million in Series A Funding
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Ecommerce platform provider WebLinc has raised $6 million in Series A financing from Safeguard Scientifics to help fund the development of new features for its platform. The funding will also be used to onboard third-party integration partners and...
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CenturyLink Unveils Private Cloud Product
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
CenturyLink Technology Solutions has launched a new private cloud service, offering to set up elastic private IT infrastructure for customers in any of its 57 data centers around the world....
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Square Plans to Grow Small Business Capital Arm After Victory Park Capital Investment
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Mobile point of sale platform Square announced on Tuesday that it has secured an investment from Victory Park Capital to expand Square Capital, its small business financing program....