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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   NEC Corporation has announced that  Kaoru Kenyoshi, Senior Expert, NEC Europe Ltd , is named Vice-Chairman of an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Study Group for the upcoming term (2013 - 2016). This will be the second consecutive term that Kenyoshi serves for a Study Group. Kenyoshi was appointed Vice-Chairman of Study Group 11 (SG11), which conducts research on the requirements and protocols for signalling systems. The appointment was made during the ITU’s world telecommunications standardization assembly. In the next study period, Kenyoshi will help guide SG11’s study of signalling systems applied to emerging communication services such as “Future Networks” and the “Internet of Things.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Kaspersky Lab has announced the discovery of  "Gauss", a new cyber-threat, targeting users in the Middle East. Gauss is a nation-state sponsored cyber-espionage toolkit designed to steal sensitive data. Gauss was discovered during the course of the ongoing effort initiated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), following the discovery of Flame. Kaspersky Lab's experts discovered Gauss by identifying commonalities the malicious program share with Flame. These include similar architectural platforms, module structures, code bases and means of communication with command & control (C&C) servers. The new malware was discovered by Kaspersky Lab's experts in June 2012. Its main module was named by the unknown creators after the German mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss.  Multiple modules of Gauss serve the purpose of collecting information from browsers, which include the history of vi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Kaspersky Lab has entered into collaboration with ITU (the International Telecommunication Union), to co-develop key components of the ITU Telecom World 2012 debate agenda. Kaspersky Lab with ITU and the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT), will contribute to the agenda for high-level discussions on cybersecurity at the event's leadership summit. Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky will deliver a keynote speech at the event outlining the magnitude and global nature of cyberthreats. Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-General, ITU, said, "Cybersecurity is a major challenge that we have to tackle at the global level. ITU is delighted to be able to draw on the knowledge and experience of Kaspersky Lab to deliver sessions on cybersecurity at Telecom World 2012 next October that will put the spotlight on the critical, wide-ranging and truly global nature of the security issues we face - and how we can...