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IT-industry, which surprised us

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This is really "news, which surprised us". The largest search engine Yandex in RuNet investbankami tentatively estimated at five billion dollars…. Founder and гендиректор "Yandex" Arkady Volozh, as well as chairman of the board of directors ru-Net Holdings (one of the shareholders "Yandex") Leonid Boguslavsky refused to comment on these data. According to the media business, such a huge figure was voiced during the competition by the organizer IPO (initial issue of shares) search engine, which is scheduled for autumn this year. I recall that the company "Yandex", the owner of the portal Yandex.ru, was founded in 2000. Yandex, a daily audience of more than 5 million people, ranks second among non-English speaking after Chinese search engines Baidu. Revenue "Yandex" in 2007 reached $167 million Corporation Microsoft, committing bypass maneuver, again taking the "conquest" Yahoo. Quote from a press release dated 18 May: "In ...

Flash as a threat

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In the United States to order the company SanDisk has been a special study on the risks posed by unprotected USB-drives. Its results are daunting: it turns out most companies to at least half underestimate the risks of unprotected workers use fleshek. At the same time, is now the order of 77% of employees of international corporations are using personal USB-drives for storage of corporate data. As is typical, these figures are quite adequate for the post-Soviet space. Compact, easy to use and mobility - these are the main advantages USB-drives. But they pose very high risk of data loss. Results of anonymous surveys conducted by the order SanDisk, have shown that most users to copy flash confidential personal data about customers (25%), financial information (17%), business plans (15%), information on the staff of the company ( 13%), marketing plans (13%), intellectual property (6%), as well as source code software (6%). In doing so, I T-heads of units and internal security services in ...