London: Interoute, owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, has completed the ISAE 3402 and SSAE 16 type II assurance report for its Amsterdam, Berlin, Geneva and London Data Centre operations. The report was completed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one of the world’s leading risk assurance consultancies, through a six month sampling audit across seven fundamental security and risk control areas. The report demonstrates Interoute's commitment to protecting the security and quality of business critical applications and data for Enterprises.
Organisations who fail to recognise the threat posed by cyber crime are putting the livelihoods of stakeholders and customers at serious risk, and those organisations that regularly suffer breaches need to be publicly named and shamed with severe consequences for serial offenders, according to Simon Bain, founder of Simplexo.
Statement by the President on the Death of Nelson Mandela.
At his trial in 1964, Nelson Mandela closed his statement from the dock saying, “I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
From Lamar Bailey, director of security research and development:
"Microsoft will be delivering five critical and six important bulletins this month. It’s not the biggest drop this year but it's large enough to give Santa a hernia.
Next week's patch will have all the usual suspects including every supported Windows OS and every supported version of IE. We will also get fixes for Lync, Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2. Get ready to patch everything this month."
From Tyler Reguly, technical manager of security research and development:
“With 11 bulletins this month, Microsoft will easily break 100, beating last years’ numbers and even exceeding 2011's December 29th release of MS11-100. System administrators everywhere must have made Microsoft's naughty list because this holiday ‘gift’ is clearly a lump of coal. Microsoft is wrapping up the 2013 patch season with anything that was laying around. We're seeing patches for ASP.NET SignalR, Office, Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Lync 2013, as well as every version of Windows and Internet Explorer. Someone should tell Microsoft they forgot to include the kitchen sink.”
From Craig Young, security researcher:
“This month’s bulletin has something for everyone -- most Windows based systems will be impacted by these patches. Microsoft is plugging remote code execution bugs affecting most of the supported versions of Exchange, SharePoint, and Windows.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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