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News : new license for mobile towers in Egypt

Announced Mobiserve Holding "Mobiserve Holding" specialized in providing solutions to engineering services for the infrastructure of telecommunications networks in the Middle East and Africa - signed an agreement with the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority obtained a building permit under which towers communication networks.
This allows the license to telecommunications companies in Egypt, the sharing of infrastructure and one, in the sense that it will be able to more than one telecommunications company use a single transmission tower at the same time, reducing cost of ownership and maintenance while increasing the coverage and strength of these companies. The force of this Convention shall apply from the beginning of this month as the license granted to Mobiserve "Mobiserve" the ability to build networks of independent sites owned by the company and leased to telecommunications companies and operators in Egypt on the basis of the concept of participation in networks.
In fact, the concept of participation in the networks of the fastest growing trends characteristic of the telecom industry growth in the world, be adopted as a model trade on a large scale in both the United States, Europe and Asia as well as in the Middle East, there are operators by regional seek the application of this concept has been particularly in the UAE where each of the two Du and Etisalat Alamareeten signed two agreements for the participation of the networks in the last year.
Said Sameh Atalla, CEO and Managing Director of the company: "This Convention does not enable telecommunications companies in Egypt to reduce costs or pave the way for the next generation of networks, but they also contribute to the provision of innovative services to those clients."
By reducing the repetition or duplication of most of the sections in charge of the operator's network and locations of stations and transmission towers and equipment, base stations and transmission network signals, operators can Telecommunications to provide better services at lower cost, and the proportion of savings for the telecommunications companies from 20% to 50% of the capital of the operator or the costs of Depending on the operating level of participation of networks without affecting the quality of the network.
It should be noted that Mobiserve is working to provide managed services a decade ago, the company has experience in building and maintaining a number of sites telephone networks in Egypt and neighboring countries, and so far the company has - and still are - the company installing and maintaining more than 12,000 sites in Africa and the Middle East and South Asia.

News : A new study confirms low levels of data protection in the UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia

Symantec today announced the results of the study prepared by the security and protection of information in small and medium-sized companies in the Middle East, which was organized with Yougov company specialized in the studies and survey. These results have shown that small and medium enterprises in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE does not apply appropriate security measures to protect sensitive information, and usually does not make a backup copy of them, as they do not determine a budget for information technology.
Commented Johnny Karam, Regional Director, Symantec Middle East and North Africa, the results of the study, said: "It is disturbing to see SMEs do not apply only simple procedures for protecting information and copied reserves in spite of being aware of the importance of this information and its role in the conduct of work , especially financial records and customer data and company information. He noted recent reports Symantec survey information to the growing proportion of virus attacks and phishing attacks targeting the UAE and Saudi Arabia, making the risks caused by these attacks is significant in our region, as shown by modern global trends in this area that SMEs have become more vulnerable to attacks and cyber crime, and because they are richer than individual users of the financial side, as they are less immunity and protection from the institutions and large corporations. "
Most SMEs buy technical solutions only when the immediate need to: study also pointed out that small and medium enterprises in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE spends no more than 10 thousand dollars a year on information technology, as most of these companies spend between one thousand to 5 thousand dollars a year. Also that 47% of companies surveyed in Egypt does not have a dedicated budget for information technology, but make decisions to buy technical solutions or technical maintenance only when the immediate need to have reached this percentage at 45% in the UAE and 39% in Saudi Arabia.
Karam commented on this by saying: "The results of the study show that a large proportion of small and medium-sized companies do not make purchase decisions for technology solutions only when forced to it, rather than determine the annual budget allocated. Which means that those decisions come to treat problems after they occur, while the allocation of annual budget and action plan for information technology will provide these companies a lot of costs, particularly since the losses associated with the loss of data or security breaches beyond the issue of loss of material up to the loss of time and damaging the reputation of the company, It is the most dangerous. "
Problems that companies face in restoring data from backups: It was pointed out 26% of respondents indicated that they did not suffer from problems in retrieving data from the backup, as they did not face the loss of their data because of problems with electric power. In Egypt, shows that the loss of data due to problems with electrical power represents the most prominent phenomenon in this area, while the inability to recover data from backups, such as the phenomenon is most prominent in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The study showed that small and medium-sized companies do not back up the data on a regular basis, as indicated by a third of companies surveyed, only that they are backing up your data on a daily basis.
Commented Karam, commented: "problems are related to data recovery culture, low to the concept of backup, it has been shown to us through our study that most of the SMEs think that just copy the data to a CD or DVD is the best way to back up your data. If we take into account the large proportion of data growth this year, we will find that small business owners attention by the backup and restore data, in order to secure and protect their information important, such as financial records and customer data and employee data, and make them available to access them better. "
SMEs have the fears of intrusion and virus attacks: According to the study, 57% to 72% of the participating companies have considered that virus attacks are the biggest threat to them, while indicated 44% to 63% of that penetration of the outside is the threat of the most prominent . In average, 29% of companies only have confirmed that it was not exposed to any attack on their systems by viruses or malicious programs, despite these concerns the whole it has been shown that the security measures taken to address them did not exceed a range of simple solutions, which included programs to protect the Internet and automatic scanning of viruses, and protecting access to the network through the use of passwords, and firewall software firewalls and verification of the powers of the user.
Have been absent the security measures developed such as verification of the powers of the download from the Internet and encryption of sensitive data and archive information for most of the SMEs in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, as an example, less than 60% of companies surveyed that encrypts documents that contain sensitive data. The study also showed that less than half the companies in Saudi Arabia and Egypt are based archive data rate of 49% in Saudi Arabia and 44% in Egypt, while the figure was 52% in the UAE.
Symantec tips for small and medium enterprises in the region: the development of a strategy and budget for IT: You should consider the financial implications of the case of a breach of information, or loss of data or virus attacks or malicious software. Must also consider other effects as loss of time or worse, a loss of reputation of the company. And have on small and medium-evaluate security strategies and data protection have periodically in order to make decisions more correct and knowledgeable. Dealing with technical issues "only in time of need" that could lead to spending more money than when it can be dealt with according to the strategic readiness of the advance.
Choose a reliable solutions to suit the requirements of companies: There are a lot of backup options that can be adopted by SMEs, whether these options is a software or hardware solutions, or go to work cloud computing technologies. And should be on small and medium start working on finding solutions that best suit their needs and then consider the process of classification and prioritization of the data they need to protect it through the back up. It is very important also to know where to save the data, and needs to be accessed, and the process of access to this data and then consider the adoption of backup solutions that can help protect this data.
Take action and protect the business: witness the remarkable development of electronic attacks has become more complex and focused on the targeting process, and the threats pose a real problem in the Middle East. Needs of small and medium-to assess the security situation has, and the creation of a security strategy and deployment of security solutions providing them with all the advanced intelligent protection up until after the anti-virus software and look at the same time anti-malware techniques.
Information about this study: Symantec has conducted this study for the special requirements and challenges and concerns affecting small and medium-sized companies in the region in the field of information management, protection and security. The objective of the study, which was the online staff of the owners of administrative centers developed in the medium and small companies that have from 5 to 100 employees or owners, in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE, The study included 628 companies, 200 of them in Egypt, and 205 in Saudi Arabia, and 224 in the UAE.

News : Facebook admits "mistakes" on privacy

New York, United States of America (CNN) - approved site Facebook on the agreement a 20-year, under which to review the extent of his commitment to the privacy of accounts subscriber, in the settlement of the issue of long brought to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, accusing the site of misleading its members on how to use their own data.
The Federal Trade Commission in its complaint that Facebook "deceived consumers (members) by saying to them that their information on Facebook are kept secret, while repeatedly allowed the participation of such information to the public."
The complaint lists several examples of "false promises of Facebook," most of which occurred several years ago.
And one of these examples took place in December / December 2009, when Facebook changed its shape, which made some of the information sent by users to a special group of friends, become known to the world, without that warns users about this change.
He said the Federal Trade Commission of America said that those changes "was unfair and misleading, and violated federal law."
Said Jon Leibowitz Chairman Federal Trade Commission in a statement that "innovation in Facebook may not come at the expense of consumer privacy."
Under the settlement terms, Facebook will be subject to the review the Privacy Policy every two years over the next 20 years. Was signed by each of the "Twitter" and "Google" recently similar agreements with the Federal Trade Commission.
Commented Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook to the settlement, saying "Overall, I think that we have a good history of providing transparency and control over who can see your information .. I am the first to admit that we made a series of mistakes."

News : Black Friday: Warning of the virus that attacks the "iTunes"

Internet users are exposed to electronic attack by a new virus comes to them in the form of "gift," says security experts.

And warned code "Eleven Security" from the receipt of Internet users to see e-mail message to come from a store "Apple" for music "iTunes."

The letter compressed file containing a virus could allow attackers to access files online a computer person who attacked him.

Blog says the attack - as is clear - to coincide with what is known as the Day of Black Friday, one of the most busiest shopping days in the United States.

The term "Black Friday" is the adjective used by the police in Philadelphia in the sixties to describe the next day to "Thanksgiving Day" in the United States because of severe traffic congestion that results from a lot of people rush to the stores to shop in it.