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OnePageCRM Raises $749K For Its ?Zero Admin? CRM For SMEs
OnePageCRM, the cloud-based CRM targeting small businesses or SMEs, has raised ?575,000 (~$749k) from unnamed private investors and supported by Enterprise Ireland. The Irish Galway-based startup says it will use the new funds to staff up in engineering, specifically web and mobile developers, along with marketing and customer support -- creating a total of 12 new jobs.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5vRFATIg_HQ/
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Melissa McCarthy Proves Glamour is Overrated on 'SNL'
If Saturday Night Live is the place celebrities go to prove they can laugh at themselves, then Melissa McCarthy has taken it to a whole new level. Hosting for the second time on Saturday, the Identity Theft star out-funnied even the regular cast members. Unlike most guest hosts -- even the great Justin Timberlake! -- the comedienne wasn't worried about looking like a big fancy star. We love her totally fearless approach to comedy!
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Hackers target Israeli websites, fail to disrupt
JERUSALEM (AP) ? An international cyber attack campaign against Israeli government websites on Sunday failed to cause serious disruptions despite dire threats from the Anonymous hacker collective, Israeli officials said Sunday.
The global hacker group promised a mass assault to protest Israeli policy toward the Palestinians. The attack appeared timed to coincide with Israel's annual Holocaust memorial day, beginning at sundown Sunday.
The cyber attack was just the latest in an almost constant effort by Israel's enemies and ideological opponents to shut down its vital websites. Most of the attacks have had little impact, and Israeli experts even say they welcome the attempts as ways of sharpening their defenses. Israel itself is accused of taking part in much more sophisticated cyber attacks against its enemies, particularly Iran.
Web posters using the name of the hacking group Anonymous warned they would launch a mass attack on Israeli sites in a strike they called (hash)OpIsrael, starting April 7.
An official from the militant Palestinian Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, praised the attackers. "God bless the minds and the efforts of the soldiers of the electronic battle," Ihab Al-Ghussein, Gaza's chief government spokesman, wrote on his official Facebook page.
By late afternoon, though, few disruptions had been reported.
The Foreign Ministry's website was taken down for a few seconds, but no other ministries behind the government firewall were affected, said Ram Alfia, an official at the Finance Ministry, which oversees the government's websites. He said some slowdowns in local Internet service were expected because of government countermeasures.
The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial was among those targeted. Its website was operating fully on the eve of memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust, the time apparently set for the assault.
Israel is considered one of the world's cyber powers. Its secretive high-tech military units have helped turn the country into a leader in cyber security, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has identified cyber security as a top priority.
Israel is also said to be a cyber attacker itself. Among other operations, it was widely believed to have been involved, along with the United States, in the Stuxnet virus, which damaged Iran's nuclear development program in 2010. Israel has never commented on the allegations.
"The Israeli people have a lot of knowledge in security, they know what they are doing in security and we can see that no major sites have been hacked," said Roni Bachar, head of the Israeli cyber security firm Avnet. "The major sites have got professional people ... and fixed all the problems on the sites on a regular basis."
Isaac Ben-Israel, a former director of the government's National Cyber Bureau, said the hackers failed to shut down key sites.
"So far, it is as was expected. There is hardly any real damage," Ben-Israel told Israel's Army Radio. "Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldn't have announced the attack ahead of time. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart."
Israeli news websites reported brief cyber attacks on the stock market and the Finance Ministry Saturday night, but the two institutions denied the reports.
Israeli media said small businesses were targeted, and some websites' home pages were replaced by anti-Israel slogans. In retaliation, Israeli activists hacked sites of radical Islamist groups and splashed them with pro-Israel messages.
Shlomi Dolev, an expert on network security and cryptography at Israel's Ben-Gurion University, said attacks of this kind will likely become more common. "It is a good test for our defense systems, and we will know better how to deal with more serious threats in the future," he said.
He said Israel is well prepared to deal with the attacks. "This is a real battle. It is good training for our experts," he said.
Dolev, who also serves as chairman of the Inter-University Communication Center, which connects Israeli universities and research branches of companies like IBM, said 40 security experts from the center "are looking forward to play with the attackers."
Hackers have tried before to topple Israeli sites, with limited success.
In January 2012, a hacker network that claimed to be based in Saudi Arabia paralyzed the websites of Israel's stock exchange and national airline and claimed to have published details of thousands of Israeli credit cards.
A concerted effort to cripple Israeli websites during November fighting in Gaza failed to cause serious disruption. Israel said at the time that protesters barraged Israel with more than 60 million hacking attempts.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hackers-target-israeli-websites-fail-disrupt-170858864.html
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Radioactive leak feared at Japan n-plant
TOKYO (AP) ? The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant said Saturday that it was moving tons of highly radioactive water from a temporary storage tank to another after detecting signs of leakage, in a blow to the plant's struggles with tight storage space.
Tokyo Electric power Co. said about 120 tons of the water are believed to have breached the tank's inner linings, some of it possibly leaking into the soil. TEPCO is moving the water to a nearby tank at the Fukushima Dai-chi plant ? a process that could take several days.
TEPCO detected the leak earlier in the week, when radiation levels spiked in water samples collected in between the inner linings of the tank. Radiation levels in water samples taken outside the tank also have increased, an indication of the water leak, TEPCO spokesman Masayuki Ono said.
Contaminated water at the plant, which went into multiple meltdowns after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan, has escaped into the sea several times during the crisis. Experts suspect there has been a continuous leak into the ocean through an underground water system, citing high levels of contamination among fish caught in waters just off the plant.
The leak is not only an immediate environmental concern, but threatens TEPCO's tight water management situation, Ono said.
The tank contains 13,000 tons of water, which is part of the water that was used to cool melted fuel at the plant's reactors damaged in the twin disasters. So much water has been used that TEPCO is struggling to find storage space.
"The impact (from the leak) is not small, as the space is already tight," Ono said. "We need to revise our water management plans."
More than 270,000 tons of highly radioactive water is already stored in hundreds of gigantic tanks and another underground tank. They are visible even at the plant's entrance and built around the compound, taking up more than 80 percent of its storage capacity.
TEPCO expects the amount to double over three years and plans to build hundreds of more tanks by mid-2015 to meet the demand.
Because of that, TEPCO is anxious to launch a new water treatment system that can purify the contaminated water. The machine, called ALPS, recently started a final test run after six months of delays due to safety requirements by government regulators.
The delay caused TEPCO to use some of seven underground tanks, originally meant for ALPS-treated water, to accommodate the contaminated water backlog as a stopgap measure.
TEPCO officials have indicated they hope to release the water into the ocean, but Ono said the company has no immediate plans to do so without public acceptance.
The plant is being decommissioned but continues to experience glitches. A fuel storage pool temporarily lost its cooling system Friday, less than a month after the plant suffered a more extensive outage.
The underground tank, several times the size of an Olympic-size swimming pool and similar to an industrial waste dump, is dug directly into the ground and protected by two layers of polyethylene linings inside the outermost clay-based lining, with a felt padding in between each layer.
The meltdowns have caused the plant to release radiation into the surroundings and displaced about 160,000 people from around the plant. They do not know when or if they will be able to return home.
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
SCAM ALERT: Fake Debt Collectors Spoof Local Police Phone Number
**PRESS RELEASE FROM THE BBB**
SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. - Liberty Lake Police Department contacted Better Business Bureau alerting of a scam targeting the Spokane region. A Spokane resident received a call from a (509) area code phone number claiming to be a police deputy named 'Wilkerson.' The supposed 'deputy' aggressively told the Spokane man he had an outstanding bill and would be arrested if he didn't pay up. The scammer provided a (972) area code phone number for the man to call back and pay.
The victim chose to call the phone number showing on his caller ID, and to his surprise, he reached the Spokane Sheriff's Regional Training Center, who knew nothing of the call. After receiving a second call from the same phone number, the resident researched to find and contact Officer Taj Wilkerson with the Liberty Lake Police Department who informed the Spokane man there was no investigation into a debt and this was indeed a scam.
Officer Taj Wilkerson followed up with the alleged 'debt collector' and contacted the (972) phone number and reached an operation claiming to be in Dallas, Texas. The contact person provided a bogus address and refused to provide any further details.??
Fake debt collection calls are a very serious scam, and victims must remain calm amidst aggressive, threatening tactics often used by scammers.
Better Business Bureau offers a few tips when faced with a fake debt collection call:
- Never provide or confirm bank account, credit card, or other personal information over the phone until you have confirmed the legitimacy of the call.
- Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation which substantiates the debt.
- Know your rights, familiarize yourself with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which describes both the collectors and debtors rights in the process.
- Be wary. Local police or any other governing body will NEVER contact you out of the blue about a debt.
If you receive a threatening call claiming to be from a local police department, please report it to your BBB by calling 509-455-4200
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51449614/ns/local_news-spokane_wa/
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