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Teen arrested for hacking hundreds of KPN servers
Dutch police have arrested the teen accused of sowing a period of chaos in national telecoms giant KPN that ended up with the company suspending customer access to 2 million email accounts.
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Three Bulgarians arrested in connection to US banks phishing scheme
Bulgarian authorities have arrested three men on charges of being part of an international cybercriminal gang that targeted US bank customers.
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Flash storage vendor Fusion-io to buy IO Turbine
Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to $95 million (£58 million) to extend its on-server cache products to virtualised environments.
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High resolution and 3D media to need seven times more storage in five years
Over the next five years, the media and entertainment industry will see digital storage capacity requirements jump from 11 exabytes to 62 exabytes.
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Cisco unveils expansion of data centre portfolio
Cisco this week is expanding its data centre product portfolio with a new switch, extensions to existing ones and enhancements to its servers and software.
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SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find
A technology built into many new solid state drives (SSDs) to improve their storage efficiency could inadvertently be making forensic analysis at a later date by police forces and intelligence agencies almost impossible to carry out to legally safe standards, researchers have discovered.
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Memeo Connect automates Google Docs sync
Memeo unveiled a major update to Memeo Connect today with the launch of the Memeo Connect 2.0 beta. Memeo Connect 2.0 adds features and functionality to make Google Docs more productive and enterprise ready, including Google GDrive, a concept that Google customers have been demanding since Google Docs was first introduced.
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Sony stops making floppy disks
The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage media this early next year.
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IBM launches new tiered storage products
IBM announced storage features and products today, including data tiering software, higher capacity hard drives and next-generation tape drive technology.
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Boffins claim lasers could supercharge disk I/O
A team of French physicists have discovered a way to use lasers to accelerate storage I/O on hard discs by up to 100,000 times current read/write methods.
