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An infographic depicting the percentage share of formal firms that are owned by women in Africa. Data from the World Bank.

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Researchers’ Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail From Fortune 500

vruz: this is one of the reasons why startups should never spend a cent in security consultants. ever.

—via infoneer-pulse:

Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months.

The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would be useful to hackers, affidavits and other documents related to litigation in which the companies were embroiled, and trade secrets, such as contracts for business transactions.

“Twenty gigs of data is a lot of data in six months of really doing nothing,” said researcher Peter Kim from the Godai Group. “And nobody knows this is happening.”

» via Wired

Reblogged from JournoGeekery

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attack of the groupon clones

those guys are still reading Business 2.0 circa 1997

remember “start global, build local” ?

yeah, that didn’t work too well.

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