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Data breaches drive growth in use of encryption, global study finds

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John E Dunn | Feb. 13, 2014

But complex key management holds back some.

Data breaches have for the first time become the main reason enterprises implement encryption technology, according to a study of global encryption trends by The Ponemon Institute on behalf of security firm Thales e-Security.

The firm found that 46 percent of the 4,800 enterprises and IT managers questioned from around the world said that the main reason they invested in encryption was that it could lessen the impact of breaches. This beat a desire to protect brand reputation on 44 percent and the 40 percent mentioning compliance as the motivation.

It's perhaps obvious that encryption makes stolen data less useful to criminals but the growing importance placed on protecting data rather than devices shows how the technology has risen from being precautionary measure to that of a frontline defence.

Storing data without encryption, especially customer data, is increasingly unthinkable with the US the most emphatic on this for 59 percent of those questioned. Curiously, some countries fall short of this enthusiasm with France in last place on 35 percent.

The reason is mainly local legislation and compliance regimes, with 61 percent of the US sample reporting that unencrypted customer data would require breach notification as against 33 percent believing notification would be necessary if it was.

On the face of it this is a bit surprising; many US organisations appear to believe that breach notification would not be required simply because the data had been encrypted. It is not clear that this is true although the same divide appears in all countries looked at.

The study also uncovered the usual problems with deploying encryption as well as identifying precisely where the sensitive data resides for it to be applied.

The figures also show that encryption use has doubled since the report was first compiled in 2005, and was now present in 30 percent of organisations. Not surprisingly, financial services leads the way with 43 percent making use of it.

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2012 Red Hat Summit Build a PaaS using Open Source Software ~ Redhat Linux Video YouTube – Video

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The New eRacks/NAS36 Rackmount Storage Server Achieves Price/Density Breakthrough: 100TB Storage in Only 4U for Under …

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eRacks Open Source Systems is pleased to announce the eRacks/NAS36 rackmount storage server.

Available immediately, it combines a rack usage of only 4U with a density of 36 drives (24 front and 12 rear), which, when combined with the current technology of widely available 4TB drives, yields a total storage of 144TB.

With the forthcoming 6TB drives from WD HGST, this will increase to 216 Terabytes*, giving a truly petascale solution in only 4U of rackspace.

This rounds out eRacks' line of rackmount multi-drive storage servers and NAS solutions, nicely filling the gap between the 24-drive eRacks/NAS24 and the all-front-loading 50-drive eRacks/NAS50, eRacks' flagship storage server.

When populated with 36 removable drives in only 4U, this represent a density / price breakthrough - using the best value (lowest price/TB) 3TB drives, this enables 108TB of raw storage in only 4U, and for less than $20,000, as configured on the eRacks website.

The unit is also available partially populated, at a reduced price, to make it accessible at a lower initial price, and the storage can be increased later by filling the empty drive trays.

It's signature service, eRacks will be happy to install any of the popular Linux distributions on request - Ubuntu, Debian, edHat, Centos, Fedora, even the Arch Linux distro, which is growing fast in popularity, as well as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or other Open Source OSes.

eRacks will also pre-install any open source NAS software, such as FreeNAS, OpenFIler, NAS4Free and OpenMediaVault, among others - and administrative dashboards and web GUIs are offered on most of these software choices.

Also available is best-of-breed Open Source software for BigData / Cloud storage, NAS, and networking - including Hadoop, MooseFS, CIFS, GlusterFS, etc - and eRacks is a partner with MooseFS.org.

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Has Linux Conquered the Cloud?

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Perhaps the real indicator for long-term cloud dominance is what is driving customers to select Linux. Linux and open source really are driving movement away from proprietary software, according to Open Source Storage founder Eren Niazi. "The first to market usually gets the control. Linux was the first platform in the clouds. Linux developers already have the cloud space controlled pretty well."

Linux on the desktop may have missed its adoption time line, but Linux in the cloud is a win-win proposition for the post-PC movement.

Linux shows signs that it is the go-to cloud platform. Microsoft's Azure may be the only real threat to Linux cloud dominance -- all other major cloud software platforms are based on Linux and open source software.

Some enterprise Linux distros are showing up as cloud-based offerings. It is becoming very common to find options to run Ubuntu, CentOS, Suse Linux Enterprise Server and openSuse offered on cloud platforms. Even better for Linux fans is that Microsoft includes openSuse as an option to run on its own Azure platform.

"Linux has already conquered the public cloud. With the exception of Azure, all of the other dominant public clouds run both compute and storage on Linux. And for virtual machines running in the cloud, it's all Linux, including Azure," Ross Turk, vice president of community at Inktank, told LinuxInsider.

The only challenge left for Linux to fully conquer the cloud is in the private and hybrid sectors. Private cloud technology like OpenStack is pushing Linux kernel-based virtual machines, or KVMs, on the compute side and challenging VMware's position, asserted Turk.

"However, when you consider the entire cloud -- compute, work and storage -- open source still needs to win on the storage and networking side," he said.

Storage is the last bastion of proprietary technology in the data center. It accounts for a very large portion of IT spending. However, Linux has disrupted the operating system and database markets with its benefits of cost savings, no vendor lock-in and rapid innovation.

"These all have been monumental in its rise to dominance, and it will be interesting to see how this plays out in the rest of the cloud," said Turk.

The fight for cloud supremacy may be done and won. Especially for providers, the bottom line is Linux, according to Ryan Koop, director of products and marketing at CohesiveFT.

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Assange should be treated according to Swedish law

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It is obvious that an interrogation with Julian Assange would gain everybody, including the injured parties.

Thomas Olsson och Per E Samuelsson

This is a misunderstanding. Assange only requests to be treated according to Swedish law.

According to section 23, chapter 4, of the Swedish Procedural Code, a preliminary criminal investigation should be performed as quickly as possible and in such a way that the suspect is not unnecessarily inconvenienced.

According to section 5 of the preliminary investigation code, an interrogation shall be held at such a time and place as can be expected to carry the least inconvenience for the investigated party.

The significance of these rules is, that every preliminary investigation should be adapted to the situation in which the investigated party finds himself.

Julian Assange stays at Ecuadors embassy in London since June 2012. The reason that he went there was a worry to be extradited to the US. That this worry is well founded is clear since American authorities have stated that a pre-investigation is ongoing regarding the publishments of Wikileaks. The seriousness of this became apparent during the trial against Chelsea (former Bradley) Manning who was conducted to 35 years in prison as alleged source to Wikileaks.

To prevent that this risk of extradition is realized Ecuador has granted Julian Assange political asylum. Thus the somewhat unusual and to say the least an akward situation has occurred: A person is locked up in an embassay in Western Europe to avoid being prosecuted for having used his freedom of speech to critize, as a journalist, how the US conducts its war against Irak.

According to Swedish law, the prosecutor is, as previously stated, obliged to adapt to Assanges situation and with this as a starting point, quickly press on with the investigation without causing unnecessary inconvienence to the ones involved.

The next step in the investigation is to interrogate Assange. Such an interrogation can be held at the embassy in London but not in Sweden. But Marianne Ny refuses to go to London. Instead she does nothing. One would be hard pressed to find any rational reason for her passiveness. After the interrogation of Julian Assange the prosecutor can decide how to proceed. Drop the suspicions in whole are partly or move on to an indictment. Before the interrogation Marianne Ny can do nothing.

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It is obvious that an interrogation with Julian Assange would gain everybody, including the injured parties.

Thomas Olsson och Per E Samuelsson

This is a misunderstanding. Assange only requests to be treated according to Swedish law.

According to section 23, chapter 4, of the Swedish Procedural Code, a preliminary criminal investigation should be performed as quickly as possible and in such a way that the suspect is not unnecessarily inconvenienced.

According to section 5 of the preliminary investigation code, an interrogation shall be held at such a time and place as can be expected to carry the least inconvenience for the investigated party.

The significance of these rules is, that every preliminary investigation should be adapted to the situation in which the investigated party finds himself.

Julian Assange stays at Ecuadors embassy in London since June 2012. The reason that he went there was a worry to be extradited to the US. That this worry is well founded is clear since American authorities have stated that a pre-investigation is ongoing regarding the publishments of Wikileaks. The seriousness of this became apparent during the trial against Chelsea (former Bradley) Manning who was conducted to 35 years in prison as alleged source to Wikileaks.

To prevent that this risk of extradition is realized Ecuador has granted Julian Assange political asylum. Thus the somewhat unusual and to say the least an akward situation has occurred: A person is locked up in an embassay in Western Europe to avoid being prosecuted for having used his freedom of speech to critize, as a journalist, how the US conducts its war against Irak.

According to Swedish law, the prosecutor is, as previously stated, obliged to adapt to Assanges situation and with this as a starting point, quickly press on with the investigation without causing unnecessary inconvienence to the ones involved.

The next step in the investigation is to interrogate Assange. Such an interrogation can be held at the embassy in London but not in Sweden. But Marianne Ny refuses to go to London. Instead she does nothing. One would be hard pressed to find any rational reason for her passiveness. After the interrogation of Julian Assange the prosecutor can decide how to proceed. Drop the suspicions in whole are partly or move on to an indictment. Before the interrogation Marianne Ny can do nothing.

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Cryptocurrency News Round-Up: Protests at Mt Gox as …

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Tech Talk: Bitcoin Breaks into the Offline WorldIBTimes UK

Uncertainty over the fate of the Mt Gox bitcoin exchange led to a volatile weekend for the cryptocurrency, which fell from relative stability around the $925 (565) mark, to less than $650 for the first time since mid-December.

The slump in bitcoin's value comes in the wake of an announcement by Tokyo-based MT Gox that it has temporarily blocked all withdrawal requestsby its users.

Unable to get their money out as either bitcoins or real-world currency, users are angry and some believe the exchange has become insolvent, unable to meet withdrawal demands.

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Bitcoin begins to stabilise after heavy losses in wake of Mt Gox problems.

At the time of publication, bitcoin had recovered slightly to $681, while litecoin was at $18.16, down marginally on its price from last week. Meanwhile dogecoin had gained more than 26% in the last 24 hours, up to $0.0014 per coin.

Vertcoin, which showed regular triple-digit gains a week ago, has fallen significantly over the last five days, down from a high of more than $9 to its current level of $3.50.

The highest 24-hour gain was seen by bitgem, which soared more than 56% to $6.26 per coin, closely followed by devcoin, up more than 51% to $0.0006.

After causing a stir when it entered the market at $800,000, 42 Coin has remained stable in recent days and is currently at $118,665 per coin.

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Dogecoin Value Soars $40M in Value Following Chinese Exchange Opens

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Dogecoin has soared in value to more than $90 million making it the world's third most valuable mineable cryptocurrency following the opening of a Chinese exchange.

Dogecoin, the meme-based cryptocurrency, continues its inexorable rise "to the moon" becoming the third most valuable cryptocurrency in the world after a Chinese exchange began trading the coins for yuan.

Dogecoin is just two months old, yet in that time the cryptocurrency which started out life as something of a joke rose to briefly become the world's third most valuable (mineable) cryptocurrency - rising some $40 million (24.2m) in value in the last 48 hours alone to over $90m.

At the time of publication dogecoin had slipped back below peercoin in terms of overall value, but considering dogecoin is rising and peercoin is falling, it is likely we will see the situation change again in the next 24 hours.

While the website coinmarketcap.comlists dogeconi as number four behind bitcoin, ripple and litecoin in terms of mineable cryptocurrencies we can discount ripple as only a tiny fraction of that currency is available to the public.

Chinese yuan exchange opens

While there doesn't seem to be any single reason for the spike in value, one of the main drivers is likely to be the fact that Chinese exchange Bter.com has added dogecoin to its list of currencies meaning it can now be traded directly for Chinese yuan.

This follows the last month's announcement by Canadian-based exchange Vault of Satoshi that it would begin trading dogecoin for US and Canadian dollars.

As well as opening up the cryptocurrency to people not interested in mining it, the more exchanges which accept dogecoin in return for fiat currencies the more dogecion will weaken its dependency on bitcoin.

This could be the reason that dogecoin's value has soared in recent days despite huge turmoil in the bitcoin markets.

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Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison | Politics …

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Prosecutors had urged a minimum of 60 years for the U.S. Army soldier who had been convicted for passing classified documents to WikiLeaks.

Bradley Manning is escorted out of a military court facility at Fort Meade, Md., ahead of his sentencing hearing.

Bradley Manning has been sentenced to serve 35 years in prison for turning over hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to WikiLeaks.

Handed down by Colonel Denise Lind on Wednesday, the sentence follows the court's verdict on July 30 that found Manning guilty of nearly all charges against him, though not guilty of the most serious charge, aiding the enemy. Judge Lind had presided over an eight-week court martial in Fort Meade, Md.

Manning's rank will also be reduced from private first class to private, the U.S. Army Military District of Washington said in a press release. He will forfeit all of his pay and allowances and be dishonorably discharged from the military.

Manning could have faced as much as 90 years in jail, though prosecutors had urged a minimum sentence of 60 years. In his closing argument Monday, Capt. Joe Morrow said that a lengthy sentence would deter other soldiers from following Manning's path, the Guardian reported Tuesday.

The defense team had asked for a sentence of no more than 25 years, giving the 25-year-old the opportunity to rebuild his life upon release.

Manning must serve at least one-third of his sentence before he's eligible for parole, the Guardian added. Counted toward that time will be the 1,182 days he served in confinement before the trial and the 112 days of "unlawful punishment" he received in a military brig in Quantico, Va.

David Coombs, Manning's lead attorney, will discuss the sentence at a press conference to take place around 10:30 a.m. PT at the Hotel at Arundel Preserve in Hanover, Md.

Manning had pled guilty to 10 charges and was found guilty of 20 of them, including wrongful possession and transmission of national defense information, theft of government information, unauthorized access to a government computer, wrongful possession and transmission of protected government information, violation of lawful regulations related to his computer use and storage of classified information, and wrongful publication of U.S. intelligence information.

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