Reports that that personal details of around 210,000 unemployed people in the state of Massachusetts have been stolen because of a Qakbot worm infection show that multi-layered security - harnessing the power of enhanced firewalls and intrusion technologies - is now needed.

 According to Idappcom’s Ray Bryant, the data security specialist's chief executive officer, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reportedly spotted the worm on its systems several weeks ago and took what it thought was remedial action.

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ONDON, UK - 19 May 2011 - Managing the complexities of integrated multichannel eCommerce, internationalisation into new markets, and tailoring brands to different buyers are retailers’ top three areas of focus for 2011, according to Hitachi Consulting UK’s Retail Vision Report: 20 Technology Challenges from 20 Leading Retailers. However, despite many retailers having several leading BI tools in place, the report highlights a growing gap between business intelligence capabilities and business requirements, resulting from lack of alignment to the business process, gaps in the data, and inadequate reporting from the retailers’ existing Business Intelligence systems - many of which have not been properly aligned or deployed.

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 MIAMI – May 19th, 2011 – The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and ISACA announced today that they will partner to provide a free web seminar on May 24, 2011. This web event will examine the roles of anti-money laundering (AML), audit and business units in an institution, and the need for a symbiotic relationship among these departments to improve compliance for the entire organization.

“ACAMS is extremely excited to be co-hosting this web event,” said John Byrne, CAMS, ACAMS executive vice president. “The role of AML in an institution is extremely important to detecting and combating financial crime. The performance of the AML department is often contingent upon a close and open working relationship with the Audit team and the Business Unit,” continued Byrne, who will also be the Moderator of the event.

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 Milpitas, CA. – May 18th 2011 – The proliferation of collaboration and social tools designed to increase productivity is actually costing businesses 57.8 Billion pounds per year in lost productivity, according to a survey of more than 500 international organisations of all sizes conducted by online market research firm uSamp (United Sample) and commissioned by social email software provider harmon.ie.

 Nearly 60% of work interruptions now involve either using tools like email, social networks, text messaging and IM, or switching windows among disparate standalone tools and applications. In fact, 45% of employees work only 15 minutes or less without getting interrupted, and 53% waste at least one hour a day due to all types of distractions.

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Top Image Systems Expands Its Banking Platform to Include Mobile Remote Capture (MRC) for Check Deposit and Bill and Invoice Payments

Top Image Systems(TM) (TIS(TM)), Ltd. (Nasdaq:TISA ) (TASE:TISA ), the leading ECM (Enterprise Content Management) solutions provider, announced today that it has launched mobile banking solutions that allows financial institutions to better respond to customer demand for mobile based capabilities using smart phones. TIS's new solutions offer a variety of applications addressed to meet the unique needs of Banks, including check deposit, utility bill payment and invoice payment.

These new applications address the banking industry's need to offer customers value-added services that will result in a significant advantage in today's competitive banking market. Checks, utility bills and invoices are easily and securely sent to the bank for deposit or payment using a camera-equipped smart phone.

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