Doyenz says that, whilst the power outages that affected Arizona and California late last week will have brought many company's IT resources to a shuddering halt, had some of those firms been foresighted enough to invest in a cloud computing-based business continuity and disaster recovery service, their operations could have continued from the cloud.
14 – 16 November in Barcelona, Spain
With security continuing to be one of the top priorities for C-level executives, ISACA yesterday revealed a number of key sessions at its annual Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) Conference in Europe. The three day event, to be held in Barcelona from 14-16 November, offers a fresh perspective on today’s challenges and future trends, including PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) compliance, Cloud Computing and Data Loss Prevention. With a mixture of industry professionals and end user case studies, this year’s line will have a variety of speakers—including representatives from the PCI Council, Deloitte and Touche, Emirates General Petroleum Corp, Telefónica and VISA— all sharing their invaluable insight and expertise, but perhaps more crucially their experiences of overcoming these hurdles. Attending delegates will receive the advice and tools needed, complemented by an unrivalled business insight, to design and implement workflows and practices to overcome these concerns, some as soon as they return to the organisation.
DriodOS/Spitmo attack is virtually undetectable
Trusteer intelligence has spotted the first SpyEye variant, called SPITMO, attacking Android devices in the wild. According to Amit Klein, Trusteer’s chief technology officer, the threat posed by DriodOS/Spitmo has escalated the danger of SpyEye now that this malicious software has been able to shift its delivery and infection methods.
Aaaaah! What have the police got to do with the environment? Hey! Stop displaying your ignorance because police have a thousand and one thing to do with the environment...they live in the environment and operate in the environment, and are part of it, so they ‘ve got to be concerned about everything within the biotic contents of the environment. On this note therefore, Vigilance can authoritavely, report that the MPS and the London Zoo have today jointly launched endangered species exhibition in London and a stuffed tiger cub, a Leopard skin coat and a sperm whale's tooth are just some of the items on display at an exhibition about London's illegal trade in endangered species.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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