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Pawn Storm cyberespionage group increases activity, targets NATO

Even though its activities were exposed last year, a cyberespionage group dubbed Pawn Storm has ramped up its efforts over the past few months, targeting NATO members and potentially the White House.

The first quarter of this year “has seen a great deal of activity from the group,” researchers from antivirus firm Trend Micro said Thursday in a blog post. “Most notably this involved setting up dozens of exploit URLs and a dozen new command-and-control (C&C) servers targeting NATO members and governments in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.”

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Microsoft study shatters myth, says social media use increases work productivity

Does your boss frown on using social media while you are at work because it is a distraction that decreases productivity? Well you can tell him or her that’s a myth, since new results from a two-year study found that using social media at work actually increases productivity.
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Proposed US Cyber-Crime Law Increases Pressure On China – TechWeekEurope UK


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Proposed US Cyber-Crime Law Increases Pressure On China
TechWeekEurope UK
The US government dialled up its war of words with China over cyber-espionage last week, with a Pentagon report clearly placing blame on the Chinese government for sanctioning information theft and legislators proposing a bill that would block imports
Chinese university lab linked to PLA cyber attacksWashington Free Beacon

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US Increases Cyber Warfare Budget by 20% – Algemeiner


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US Increases Cyber Warfare Budget by 20%
Algemeiner
The Pentagon is increasing its budget for cyber operations by 20 per cent in the hopes that it can replicate successful cyberwarfare operations like the attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010 that damaged centrifuges at the Natanz uranium
Pentagon 2014 Budget Includes $ 5B for Cyber Warfare; Keith Alexander ExecutiveGov

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