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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE This quarter saw a significant shift in the way the security industry approaches targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats, which are now viewed more as a long-term, ongoing campaign versus the typical "smash-and-grab incidents" favoured by cybercriminals in the past, according to the Trend Micro Q1 2012 Security Roundup Report. The report also noted that cybercriminals who launch APTs will often keep track of the different attacks within a campaign in order to determine which individual attack compromised a specific victim's network. The Lucky cat campaign, in particular, attacked a diverse set of targets using a variety of malware, some of which have been linked to other cyber-espionage campaigns. New social networking site, Pinterest, gained not just popularity but also notoriety. Site users were drawn into "re-pinning" a Starbucks logo to get supposed gift cards but instead got malware. This quarter's t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP Enterprise Services has expanded its Enterprise Cloud Services portfolio of offerings with solutions for private clouds, continuity and unified communications that deliver greater IT flexibility and enterprise agility for clients. Strengthening the capabilities of Enterprise Cloud Services - Messaging and Collaboration, the new capabilities enhance user experience with voice and video features that enrich employee interactions. The services improve operations while reducing expenditures on traditional telecom services like long distance and conferencing. "Organizations need to optimize IT environments while improving security, agility and flexibility. HP's complete family of cloud services allows clients to leverage their current infrastructure investments while immediately taking advantage of the benefits delivered by the cloud without unnecessary disruption to their integrated operations," said Marshal Correia, Director, E...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE As it could be claimed, Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO, Datawind, made a bold move by calling the media fraternity to one common platform and address all the queries. Following are the excerpts of the claims made by Datawind… IIT-Rajasthan showed an unethical conduct All throughout the product cycle of Aakash, Datawind kept sending them units that met their specifications, which they kept rejecting until they were satisfied with one of them and placed an order for 8,000 units. But later on in spite of placing purchase order they came up with a set of highly unscientific test criteria without prior intimation. "They plagiarized military-ruggedized test criteria from HP laptops and told us to create a cheap tablet that could resist 4 inches per hour of rain and 20G of force, which as you can imagine is quite impossible considering the time and price," Tuli shared. Not only this, they floated a limited tender (excluding Datawind) for a tablet...