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European Commission Launches Plan to Grow Digital Economy

The European Commission (EC) has announced its plan to create a single European digital market, along with a self-imposed deadline of the end of 2016. The plan is based on three policy “pillars,” which unpack into 16 “key actions.” Continue reading →

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Ponemon Report Shows Abysmal State of Data Security in the Healthcare Industry

Several alarming results were found in the 2015 Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data published by Ponemon on Thursday. Over 90 percent of healthcare organizations had a data breach and 40 percent had over five incidents in the last two years. Based on the results, the… Continue reading →

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Virtual Container Security Suite TwistLock Launches with $2.5M Seed Funding

Tel Aviv and San Francisco-based startup Twistlock announced on Thursday that it received $2.5 million in seed funding from YL Ventures. The company will use the funding to launch it’s security suite focused on container security. Twistlock seeks to solve what it sees as two problems with using container technology:… Continue reading →

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QTS Buys Government Cloud Heavyweight Carpathia for $326M

Data center provider QTS Realty Trust has agreed to buy Carpathia Hosting, a colocation, cloud, and managed services provider that does a lot of business with U.S. government agencies, for $326 million. Continue reading →

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Researchers Find Vulnerability in WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin eShop

Another vulnerability has been found in a WordPress plug-in, this one an arbitrary variable overwrite, which was publicly disclosed Wednesday by High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab. The eShop WordPress Plugin version 6.3.11 was discovered on April 15 to have insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the “eshopcart” HTTP cookie. Continue reading →

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