The number of phishing attacks increases

During the period from the beginning of June 2011 there were more than 112,000 phishing attacks. This figure increased by 70% over the same period last year. Growth in the number of phishing attacks are correlated with increased activity from China phishers, with the greatest number of attacks they are making in the country.

According to analytical data anti-phishing Working Group (APWG), the first half of the number of phishing attacks in China grew by more than 40 percent. In this case, about 90% of these attacks were aimed at visitors to the site Taobao.com, which is a Chinese copy of such major portals like eBay and Amazon.

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The concept of H-MPLS network from Huawei’s

The Chinese continue to increase the growth rate of telecommunications development. The company Huawei, which develops and telecommunications equipment, offers a new prototype network of H-MPLS.

The new development is a common carrier network, made in a compact solution. This simplifies the layout of virtual private network (VLAN) access networks, as well as improve the scalability of the networks themselves. As a basis for the construction of a new MPLS network company used SHP-access Huawei SingleFAN. Using this option allows for simultaneous transmission asihronnuyu, time division multiplexing, and IP encapsulated MPLS.

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Sale of shares of Activision Blizzard

A bit illogical act called the sale a French media holding company Vivendi his rather big stake in Activision Blizzard. Share was estimated at 427 million dollars and sold it at the time to market for new computer game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

The explanation may serve as the acquisition of the business EMI Group. This tidbit was purchased for $ 1.9 billion. Experts and analysts attribute this sudden sale and acquisition, due to fear of going on the stock markets of Europe and what is happening at the moment to reduce the creditworthiness of businesses in Europe. Answer journalists’ questions and to comment on these actions in the company and Vivendi Universal’s refused.

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It has long been able to begin work on Duqu

According to reports from the “Kaspersky Lab”, they are close to unraveling the chronology of appearance Duqu, malicious code, as well as close to the identification of the authors of the code. Experts believe that some of the goals Duqu was amazed since April 2011.

At the same time was used by the CVE-2011-3402. Around the same time received a message from the Iranian authorities on the identification of a major cyber attack by malicious software Stars. Some experts believe that the software Stars is just the older version Duqu.

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At HP, everything remains as before…

From Hewlett-Packard Company in the media reported that she refuses to release the previously outlined the ideas of his unit for the production of personal kompyuterov (Personal Systems Group PSG) as a separate business.

After assessing the prospects for HP’s unit came to the conclusion that it makes sense to leave it in the company. Reuters has noted in their comments – if PSG would really separated, then this process would cost the company half a billion dollars. But even then, each year would be allocated to support PSG another billion dollars. The first announced the plan allocation prodazhiPSG, or convert it into a separate company, former CEO of HP Léo Apotheker.

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Another attempt to sell 20% stake in Hynix…

According to the analytical agency Bloomberg, shares of the producer of memory chips from South Korea have a tendency to fall, to date there was a decrease of more than five percent.

The fall was due to fears of investors that Hynix could not sell twenty per cent stake of its shares. The main reason for these fears lies in the fact that the main potential challenger for the purchase of shares came under the close attention of the police and prosecutors in South Korea as soon as possible and tried to refuse to purchase shares of the company.

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“Rostelecom” has launched a mobile service data center

Company “Rostelecom” was commissioned for commercial mobile data center (MDC), which have a modular structure. Each module is based on a common marine sorokafutovyh containers.

The main advantage of this design is that the module can be deployed quickly enough and is connected to the channels of “Rostelecom”. Mobile center was developed with the use of this technology group IBM in compliance with international standard TIA/EIA-942, as well as third-level reliability requirements (Tier III).

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