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http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/225468 Hass Associates Reviews Madrid The Seattle hacker drove a black Mercedes. He owned a Rolex. He liked to frequent a downtown wine bar. While it's easy to think of cyber criminals as faceless, digital pickpockets in far-flung countries, the reality is that they are among us. In one notorious case, a bandit and his gang of cyber crooks compromised at least 53 Seattle-area small and medium-size businesses between 2008 and 2010, stealing enough data to cause $3 million in damages to the companies, their employees and their customers. "This wasn't the type of crime that we anticipated," tech-company employee Alec Fishburne said at a news conference (where the Seattle victims agreed to be identified but asked that their businesses remain anonymous). The gang hacked Fishburne's firm from another office within the high-rise building. He became aware of the breach after noticing some unusual financial transactions. "It was very disconcerting for a small company … to wonder whether there was some internal fraud or embezzlement happening," he told reporters. Another Seattle company was hacked after its old laptops were stolen in an office break-in; about a month later, funds were siphoned out through fraudulent payroll accounts. A third victim had the identities of almost all its employees stolen when the hacker gang cracked the company's network security. "It's enraging, because you think you have a system that's going to work," said the company's president. "These guys are really smart and ambitious, and that's a tough combination." At least that company had a network security plan. Many others don't. According to a 2012 nationwide study of small businesses by digital security firm Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), 83 percent of small businesses have no formal cyber security plan, while 69 percent lack even an informal one. Meanwhile, 71 percent are dependent on the internet for daily operations, yet almo

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxv8x7_hass-associates-reviews-madrid_news Hass Associates Reviews Madrid The Seattle hacker drove a black Mercedes. He owned a Rolex. He liked to frequent a downtown wine bar. While it's easy to think of cyber criminals as faceless, digital pickpockets in far-flung countries, the reality is that they are among us. In one notorious case, a bandit and his gang of cyber crooks compromised at least 53 Seattle-area small and medium-size businesses between 2008 and 2010, stealing enough data to cause $3 million in damages to the companies, their employees and their customers. "This wasn't the type of crime that we anticipated," tech-company employee Alec Fishburne said at a news conference (where the Seattle victims agreed to be identified but asked that their businesses remain anonymous). The gang hacked Fishburne's firm from another office within the high-rise building. He became aware of the breach after noticing some unusual financial transactions. "It was very disconcerting for a small company … to wonder whether there was some internal fraud or embezzlement happening," he told reporters. Another Seattle company was hacked after its old laptops were stolen in an office break-in; about a month later, funds were siphoned out through fraudulent payroll accounts. A third victim had the identities of almost all its employees stolen when the hacker gang cracked the company's network security. "It's enraging, because you think you have a system that's going to work," said the company's president. "These guys are really smart and ambitious, and that's a tough combination." At least that company had a network security plan. Many others don't. According to a 2012 nationwide study of small businesses by digital security firm Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), 83 percent of small businesses have no formal cyber security plan, while 69 percent lack even an informal one. Meanwhile, 71 percent are dependent on the interne

Hass and Associates Online Crimeware Warning and Online Fraud Watch KINESISKE hackere kan få alle notoriety, men deres cyber-sikkerhet utnytter mot amerikanske mål er ikke eneste. Store skader blir også gjort av organisert kriminalitet. Denne siste uken, en stor metropolitan nytte i USA kunngjorde det hadde lidd en massiv "distribuert-denial of service" (DDoS) angrep, slå ut sin automatisert online - og telefon-betalingssystemer og tvinge 155.000 kundene å betale sine regninger i person over de påfølgende 48 timene. På meste ble verktøyet er back-end datamaskiner som kjører sin kundedatabase oversvømmet med 5,7 m falske pakker med data et sekund, å bringe alle legitime transaksjoner til en stillstand. På den andre dagen av angrepet kalt verktøyet i Prolexic Technologies. Basert i Florida, opprettholder Prolexic "skrubbe sentre" over Amerika, Europa og Asia for å suge opp slike ondskapsfull deluges. Angrepet på verktøyet ble identifisert som opprinnelse i USA. Gjør ingen feil, angriperne var ikke pranksters bøyd på å forårsake skade. Heller ikke var angrepet en enkel "smadre og grip" som tar sikte på å stjele noen passord. Slags gjerningsmennene involvert var hardnet kriminelle som bruker leid "botnet" til å presse penger fra sine ofre, eller stjele intellektuell eiendom, industriell hemmeligheter og markedsplaner for salg til rivaler hjemme og i utlandet. Dette er big business nå organisert kriminalitet har tilgang til automatiserte utnytte-kits og skybaserte programvaretjenester som er hver bit så avansert som (noen sier enda mer enn) de som brukes av Fortune 500-selskaper. Ikke lenger trenger kriminelle egne tamme programmerere. De kan leie alle crimeware tjenester de trenger for å infiltrere et mål datanettverk usynlig, og forbli uoppdaget i måneder eller år mens siphoning av hemmeligheter for salg. Hvor mange firmaer betale løsepengene eller kjøpe phony "avhjelpende løsninger" å få sine virksomheter tilbake opp og kjører

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/02/18/softlayer-and-intricacies-asia-pac-expansion/ Hass and Associates Hong kong News Asien er blevet hot ekspansion markedet for data center tjenesteydere. Regionens infrastruktur vækst bagud befolkningens stigende Internet, hvorfor virksomheder herunder Google, Amazon, Rackspace, Digital Realty og Equinix har alle voksende i regionen. Men ekspansion beslutninger er ikke enkle i Asien-Stillehavsområdet, som udbydere skal veje flere variabler i publikum og operativmiljø før investere millioner af dollars på en ny placering. Et interessant Casestudie tilbydes af SoftLayer teknologier, en af verdens største udbydere af videoværtstjenester. Globale ekspansion har været en prioritet for SoftLayer i de seneste år. Firmaet er baseret i Dallas, men 40 procent af dens kundebase bygger udenfor USA Mens af kundebasen været internationale, er virksomhedens infrastruktur for nylig begyndt at strække sig ud over USA Forsøget på at udvide afslører de udfordringer og belønninger mange tjenesteudbydere står over for, når du vælger hvor man kan udvide i AsiaPac. Flere infrastruktur i Asien-Pacific Selskabet har et datacenter i Singapore, og tilføjet netværksplaceringer i Tokyo og Hong Kong i 2011. "Åbne et datacenter i Singapore gav os lejlighed til at gøre et par ting i området," sagde Mark Quigley, Softlayers direktør for internationale operationer. "Det er et sted for amerikanske virksomheder til at huse deres infrastruktur". Mens selskabet har gjort betydelige fremskridt i Asien-Pac forretning, drøftet Quigley de unikke udfordringer i Opsætning af shop i Japan i særdeleshed. Quigley tilbragte megen tid i Asien under 2012 for at hjælpe lære kulturen og forme Softlayers operationer i regionen. Han konstaterer, at i Japan, kulturen yngler to kontrasterende business realiteter, der skaber udfordringer og muligheder for virksomheder som SoftLayer: Japan er økarakter og Japan er globale. Hass and As