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Obama Proposes $14 Billion Cybersecurity Budget for Fiscal Year 2016

US President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 on Monday that includes $14 billion for boosting cybersecurity programs in the country. Continue reading

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IBM Opens SoftLayer Data Center in Toronto, Canada

IBM opened a SoftLayer data center in Toronto, Canada. This is the first SoftLayer facility in the country and the fifth of the planned fifteen data centers this year as part of a broad $1.2 billion investment program to expand the SoftLayer cloud capacity. Total capacity in Toronto is more than 15,000 physical servers. Continue reading

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Symantec and Kaspersky Labs Banned from China as Government Obliged to Choose Domestic Security Software

China is continuing to block foreign technology services from being accessible in the country, as US-based antivirus firm Symantec and Russian firm Kaspersky Labs have been added to a list of tech firms banned from China. Continue reading

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Italy Gives Google 18 Months to Comply with User Privacy Regulations

Google has 18 months to change the way it treats user data in Italy in order to meet privacy regulations in the country. The Italian Data Protection Authority (IDPA), based in Rome, told Google that it has to ask users for their prior consent to use personal data. Continue reading

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Microsoft Depletes US IPv4 Addresses for Microsoft Azure

Micrsoft Azure has run out of IPv4 addresses assigned to US regions. The company responded to customer questions about why international websites accessed through Azure-hosted VMs were locating them in another country with a blog post this week. Continue reading

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