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According to the publisher of IT security solutions, the direct damage related to cyber-attacks amounted to 114 billion dollars. More harm from $ 274 billion “in total time lost.” Symantec, the software Norton security, has published an annual report on cyber crime and how this scourge affects the general public.

For the first time, the Norton 2011 Cybercrime Report attempts to quantify the cost of this activity detrimental to the global economy. Damage estimated in 2010 to $ 388 billion, divided as such: 114 billion for the actual costs of cyber-attacks and 274 billion for the “overall time lost” because of his malicious acts.

In the survey conducted for Symantec Norton in 24 countries (including France) with a sample of 15 000 people (18-64 years), 69% of respondents claim to be victims “at least once in their life” of a computer crime in the 24 countries surveyed. Among the key lessons, the publisher of security solutions, the world leader, believes that the scourge of cyber-crime affects more countries developing intensive users of the Net and men.

If viruses and other malware on a computer still represent 54% of crimes, “10% of respondents were victims via their mobile device”, do we consider in the study. Note that France is far from the country worse off (60% of adult victims of cyber-crimes), compared to 85% in China and 83% in Mexico.

NetApp buys the “External Engenio Storage Systems Business” of professional RAID system LSI Corporation. NetApp has made ​​agreement with LSI , the storage system business of LSI Corporation million U.S. dollars in cash to take on 480 for. The complete transaction is expected to have 60 days to be completed after regulatory approval.

NetApp justified the purchase, ” Virtualization and high-performance applications with large bandwidth speed are two of the trends, the growth of the storage industry, “Engenio talking fast market segments such as digital video surveillance, full-motion video and high-performance applications such as gene sequencing to growing. For these market segments by 2014 an additional Market potential amounting to five billion U.S. dollars forecast.

Together we can address new markets with technology synergies with these requirements better and get the combined sales of both networks to expand sales. And both companies were distinguished in their fields by the fact that these might, shared virtualized IT infrastructure with high data throughput rates.

PR agencies have already become difficult to market all the news as a sensation. The new HTC smartphone is expected to be easier: It has the sensation, at least in name. The “HTC Sensation” is the new Android flagship of the Taiwanese manufacturer.

Maybe it had even HTC have intentionally leaked a rumor that next week on Tuesday (04/12/2001) will be presented in London. The above as “HTC Pyramid” device in any case is to be traded according to rumors and trademark applications now actually presented under the name ‘sensation’.

Whether it is really a sensation is, will have to show them because the details and photos that leaked are Web to look like, much like the already announced “Evo” 3D, just only without 3D display and without two-lens camera for 3D images.

The device according to XDA Developers on a 4.3-inch display 960 x 540 pixels display, be equipped with a 1.3-GHz dual processor, WiFi b / g / n rule, an 8-megapixel camera on the one side and a VGA webcam on the other side, and must be equipped with 768 MB of RAM. In the U.S., it is to work with 4G networks.

The operating system Android will be 2.3.2, “Ginger Bread” is supplemented with HTC’s own surface “Sense 3.0″ – at least suggest this to the pre-release photos and screenshots.

Skype has a new version of its VoIP software for Linux presented the parallel calls can take two and Access supports Skype, with the billing to wireless hotspots easily via the Skype Credit is the.

On the Mac and Windows access is already available since 2009, Skype, Skype now has the convenient feature in the Linux version 2.2 installed. So the user can pay the fees for the use of Wi-Fi hotspots via Skype and does not need to be logged and accounting grapple with a variety of providers. 16 cent per minute will be charged.

Skype works for Skype access, along with about 120 hotspot operators. The German Telekom is not one to, among other things, The Cloud and M3 Connect with other providers, however, many hotspots in Germany. Worldwide, Skype Access to Skype, according to more than 500 000 hotspots can be used.

Skype 2.2 for Linux is still beta status, but it brings out Skype access or other innovation. So during a conversation, a further meeting be adopted – the user has the choice whether he parks the first call or two starts with a telephone conference call.

In addition, Skype promises better audio quality and that both the problems with PulseAudio in Ubuntu and the video issues with KDE when using the Oxygen style fixes.

The product master a system recovery in record time in physical and virtual systems, praising Symantec , the new version of its recovery solution.

The earlier Backup Exec System Recovery “is now called” Symantec system recovery “and aims to reduce downtime during system crashes massively. This Redirect to the small and medium-sized companies that are not adequately prepared for the most part on the seriousness of the case of system failure. In any case, this had its own survey showed a (” Symantec SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey 2011 “).

Accordingly, even large companies require twice as much time to bring their system after a failure to back up and running, as they originally assumed. And since the new software help companies of all sizes to restore their entire system in minutes. It works out well on hardware that differs from the original system and in field offices and virtual environments.

Strange “is that a function Symantec advertises the competing O & O DiskImage “for some time spoken: Restoring a system to entirely different hardware. But at least it binds in an area that already work with other Symantec solutions.

As a novelty, reports Symantec including “All-in-one backup and recovery via USB, “a feature by a new assistant a USB stick fast to a backup storage device or a disk for system recovery transforms, the stick is also bootable .

According to a safety review of ” Android Police “can easily program the VoIP names and phone numbers will be stolen.

A security vulnerability in Skype for Android allows it, the app name, phone number and chat logs to tap off of, writes Justin Case by the developer on the Android site policy. However, Skype is already in the picture and check the problem at present.

The vulnerability exists in all versions of Skype for Android, and in the new video version. The folders in Skype’s data directory bear the same name as the Skype users, and included contacts, profile and IM logs in SQLite3 databases – not access protected or even encrypted. What every app has full access.

In a database, “main.db he had even found information such as Skype credit, real name, birth date, address, country, telephone and mobile phone numbers, writing case. To demonstrate the gap, the man has written an app, theme: for it is an App! “. Also Skypepwned shows only a part (much more) at the open data.