Type of Article: MacTech Blog

The Northern Spy: of reading and routing

By Rick Sutcliffe

At long last, the Spy’s series The Throne is starting to see the light of day. The first book, Culmanic Parts was published in June. Now, the second, Rea’s Blood or Navy Girl is available from publisher Writers Exchange. See the URLs below. The third book Tara’s Mother is in publishers’s editing as we write, and the fourth The Paladin is undergoing second proofing before being made available to the Spy’s volunteer reader/correctors.

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Forty percent of firms expect a data breach in the next year

Clearswift (www.clearswift.com), a global cyber security innovator and data loss prevention specialist, has released their annual Clearswift Insider Threat Index (CITI) exploring why firms have been slow to address internal security threats and including data from extensive research into the security priorities and awareness of over 500 IT decision makers and 4,000 employees across the UK, US, Germany and Australia.

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Personal storage market continues to shrink

Worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) shipments declined -13.4 percent year over year to 16.7 million units in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), but were up 10.3 percent compared to the previous quarter, according to the International Data Corporation. Shipment values declined along with unit shipments, down -19.8 percent from a year ago to $1.3 billion, notes the research group.

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