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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A foreign intelligence service stole 24,000 files from a U.S. defense contractor earlier this year, a dramatic illustration of the threat confronting the Pentagon as it works to bolster military computer security, a top defense official said on Thursday.

Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn revealed the theft as he unveiled a new Pentagon cybersecurity strategy that designates cyberspace as an “operational domain” like sea, air and land where U.S. forces will practice, train and prepare to defend against attacks.

Lynn said the theft occurred in March and was believed to have been carried out by a foreign intelligence service and targeted files at a defense contractor developing weapons systems and defense equipment. He declined to specify the country behind the attack, what company was hit or what the files contained.

“It was 24,000 files, which is a lot,” Lynn said. “But I don’t think it’s the largest we’ve seen.”

The theft was a dramatic illustration of the rising difficulties the Pentagon faces in protecting military and defense-related networks critical to U.S. security.

Defense Department employees operate more than 15,000 computer networks and 7 million computers at hundreds of installations around the world. The department’s networks are probed millions of times a day and penetrations have compromised huge amounts of data.

Lynn said a recent estimate pegged economic losses from theft of intellectual property and information from government and commercial computers at over $1 trillion.

NEW CYBERSTRATEGY

In addition to calling for the Pentagon to treat cyberspace as an “operational domain,” Lynn said the new strategy includes four initiatives aimed at bolstering network security by layering defenses and improving cooperation with other network operators.

Lynn said as part of its active defenses, the Pentagon would introduce new operating concepts and capabilities on its networks, such as sensors, software and signatures to detect and stop malicious code before it affects U.S. operations.

“Our strategy’s overriding emphasis is on denying the benefit of an attack,” he said in a speech at the National Defense University. “If an attack will not have its intended effect, those who wish us harm will have less reason to target us through cyberspace in the first place.”

The strategy also calls for greater U.S. military cooperation on cybersecurity with other government agencies, defense contractors and U.S. military allies abroad in order to take advantage of the open, interwoven nature of the Internet.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who now heads the Chertoff Group risk management firm, praised the strategy as a “good first step” but said the challenge would be filling in the details.

“It’s not put your pencil down, work is done,” he said. “It really just sets the table for a lot of hard work thinking through the details of what the plans are going to be, what the capabilities have to be and how we’re going to build the various layers of defense.”

He cited the possibility of creating secure communities on the Internet for some functions, finding ways to encourage individuals to practice computer security and sharing security-related information more widely between public and private sectors.

“These are going to be hard things to do because they are going to require trade-offs,” Chertoff said. “You’re not going to eliminate the risk of cyberattacks. What you have to do is minimize and manage those risks.”

OFFENSE VERSUS DEFENSE

General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon must shift its thinking on cybersecurity from focusing 90 percent of its energy on building better firewalls and only 10 percent on preventing hackers from attacking U.S. systems.

“If your approach to the business is purely defensive in nature, that’s the Maginot line approach,” he said, referring to the French fixed defensive fortifications that were circumvented by the Nazis at the outset of World War Two.

“If it’s OK to attack me and I’m not going to do anything other than improve my defenses every time you attack me, it’s very difficult to come up with a deterrent strategy,” he said.

Cartwright said part of the answer was to build up the military’s offensive response capabilities.

“How do you build something that convinces a hacker that doing this is going to be costing them and if he’s going to do it, he better be willing to pay the price and the price is going to escalate, rather than his price stays the same and ours escalates,” Cartwright said.

“We’ve got to change the calculus.”

(Editing by Todd Eastham and Bill Trott)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oracle Corp wants to question Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page in the course of high stakes patent litigation between the two companies, according to a court filing.

Oracle sued Google last year, claiming the Web search company’s Android mobile operating technology infringes upon Oracle’s Java patents.

Oracle bought the Java programing language through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010.

Page co-founded Google with fellow Stanford University graduate student Sergey Brin in 1998. The 38-year-old Page, who has a reputation for staying out of the public spotlight, took over as Google CEO in April after a decade under Eric Schmidt.

In a court filing on Thursday, Oracle requested the court’s permission to take Page’s deposition, saying he made the decision to acquire Android, Inc.

“Mr. Page also participated in negotiations that took place between Sun and Google regarding a Java license for Android and in subsequent communications with Oracle’s CEO, Larry Ellison,” Oracle wrote in the court filing.

Google has sent a notice that it wants Ellison in a deposition to answer questions under oath, Oracle wrote.

Google called Oracle’s request a “harassing demand” because it could get the same information from other sources, according to the filing, which was submitted jointly by both companies.

Oracle waited too long to start taking depositions, and now needs the court’s permission to take more, Google argued.

“Oracle should not be permitted to do so,” Google wrote in the filing.

Google representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment, while an Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment.

The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Oracle America, Inc v. Google Inc, 10-3561.

(Reporting by Dan Levine and Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Richard Chang)

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Making money from social networks is the holy grail for tech startups, and a Moscow firm reckons it has found a way to do so by creating a front-to-back restaurant management system that includes a loyalty scheme.

In his day job, David Yang runs ABBYY, which specializes in linguistic recognition and translation software. But, as a passionate restaurateur, he has spotted an opportunity created by social networks such as Facebook and Foursquare.

The result is iiko (en.iiko.ru), an integrated system that handles orders, inventory, finance and security. It also runs a loyalty scheme geared to the fad for location-based networking.

“Loyal guests are better motivated because if they publish a recommendation on their wall and their friends come, the recommender receives part of their spending (as a discount),” Yang told Reuters at Artefaq, one of his trendy restaurants.

“His or her friends will also receive free wine, free burgers, free mojitos,” said the Armenian-born Yang, whose father came from China to the Soviet Union to study physics only to be stranded by the Cultural Revolution.

If that’s not enough, iikoDJ can play the right music, at the right volume, at the right time of day or night.

“During the day you should change the volume and in different rooms have different music playing,” said Yang.

“But people in the restaurants don’t usually care, they don’t switch music, they don’t switch volume or, even worse, they put on their own music.”

Yang expects iiko, which was founded in 2005 and received an investment from brokerage Troika Dialog in 2008, to generate $50 million in revenues by 2015 through one-off sales or service contracts, topped up by 1-2 percent of collections.

The system is already working in 1,400 restaurants and cafes, including the Russian operations of Dunkin’ Donuts and Sbarro. Yang plans to take iiko international and reach 40,000 sites by mid-decade.

SOVIET-ERA STARTUP

Yang was a student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1989 when he went into business with fellow student Alexander Moskalyov, getting a loan from a fund set up by President Mikhail Gorbachev to back young entrepreneurs.

“It was like an incubator. They believed…” said Yang.

ABBYY (www.abbyy.com) now sells text-recognition software FineReader — capable of reading hand-written mediaeval texts — and electronic dictionary Lingvo. It employs 1,000 people, has 13 offices in nine countries and 30 million customers.

ABBYY, in which Swedish-Russian fund Mint Capital took a minority stake in the early 2000s, is not considering joining the rush by tech firms to list despite success stories such as internet search firm Yandex, known as the “Russian Google,” which raised $1.4 billion on Nasdaq.

But Yang, whom the Expert RA agency ranked as Russia’s No.4 tech entrepreneur with estimated sales of $146 million, is keeping his options open.

“We are facing interest all the time from financial and strategic investors,” he said. “We are exploring the organic and non-organic growth of the company. But we don’t have exact plans.”

(Reporting by Maria Kiselyova and Douglas Busvine, editing by Paul Casciato)

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc won a preliminary ruling from a U.S. trade panel that Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corp infringed on two of the California company’s patents.

HTC, which uses Google’s Android operating system for its smartphones, said it would “vigorously fight” the infringement finding.

An International Trade Commission judge on Friday made the ruling, but the full commission must now rule on whether it will uphold or reverse its administrative judge’s decision.

The ruling, though preliminary, will be closely dissected as it is one of the first between Apple and other smartphone makers that use Android.

Smartphone technology has spawned a wealth of patent litigation. Apple also has filed complaints against Samsung Electronics, which also uses the Android software platform. Apple recently settled a case against Nokia.

Microsoft and Motorola also have filed smartphone related lawsuits against each other.

Android-based smartphones have outpaced iPhones globally but Apple is gearing up to launch a new iPhone this year, which is likely to give it a big boost.

Apple initially accused HTC of infringing 10 patents but six were dropped from the case for various reasons. The ITC judge ruled that HTC infringed two of the remaining four.

A final determination in the case is due on December 6.

Apple filed a parallel lawsuit against HTC in a court in the U.S. District Court in Delaware.

Asked for comment, Apple reiterated a previous statement by Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs that “competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”

The ITC is a popular venue for patent disputes because it can bar the importation of devices made with infringing technology. Often parallel lawsuits are filed in district courts to try to recoup any financial damages.

“We are confident we have a strong case for the ITC appeals process and are fully prepared to defend ourselves using all means possible,” said HTC General Counsel Grace Lei in an email statement.

Hemorrhoids are without a doubt a awful matter for women and men internationally.Virtually thousands of women and men are seeking a hemorrhoid treatment. In actuality far more than six hundred thousand women and men search on the words ‘hemorrhoid treatment‘ month to month. Can any form of hemorrhoid treatment always and forever treat hemorrhoids?

Unless you improve your diet and lifestyle it does not really make a difference what variety of hemorroid treatment you utilize including a surgical operation, your hemorrhoids can keep recurring. hemorrhoids result from extreme pressure on your lower pelvic area which pushes the problematic arteries into a bunch. This is in most cases the result of an insufficient diet plan, one which includes little or no fiber. Eating regimens which include fresh fruits and green veggies can treat that. Too little regular exercise triggers hemorrhoids resulting from diminished blood flow. When the blood is not flowing with ample pressure it can’t propel waste through the arteries. You should not be impatient when going to the bathroom.

For anybody who is in search of a strategy to treat your hemorrhoids always and forever and you would be able to do the things it takes to get it done then you are the lucky one. With any luck, this report has offered you the info you must have to fulfill that objective. Basically, mearly attend to your body.

Thrombosed hemorrhoids are in brief, hemorrhoids where by the arteries are filled with blood which is clotted. The meaning of thrombosis is: the emergence of a blood clot inside of a swollen artery. This matter reduces blood flow through the swollen artery, therefore limiting the oxygen supply . If a thrombosed hemorrhoid incurs a great deal of pressure it may well burst open. If it does, the anus will begin bleeding and then the hemorroid is known as a bleeding hemorrhoid.

In certain cases you can know if you are afflicted with thrombosed hemorrhoids and oftentimes you can not. If you identify a bluish bulb on the surface of your anus it is quite likely a thrombosed hemorrhoid. oftentimes you can feel it and find out that it is hard. Typically thrombosed hemorroids inflict physical pain and also itching.
In many instances hemorrhoids, even thrombosed hemorrhoids are not right on your anus. Surprisingly Thrombosed hemorrhoids can develop inside of your rectum. These particular hemorrhoids are alot more problematic to find seeing that they tend not to bring about physical pain or itching and you can’t see them.

What you really don’t want is a severe case of hemorrhoids that got infected, specially internal hemorrhoids. In the event you have external bleeding hemorrhoids, then you already know how very debilitating they tend to be. . They may possibly get infected and this would most likely accentuate the disorder drastically. Nevertheless, you can rather easily locate infections on the surface of your anus so then you can get it cleared up quickly. Internal infections however are severe. Not only are they relatively troublesome to sense, they are troublesome to get rid of. Internal infections may cause blood poisoning which can kill you.

There are several distinct kinds of hemorrhoid treatment that can perform efficiently on thrombosed hemorrhoids. You could elect a surgical treatment or any number of distinct organic or holistic treatment methods. The primary thing you’ll need to do to get rid of hemorrhoids is to always monitor what you eat. Eating dinners which include nutrient rich foods for instance fruits and green vegetables goes a long way toward getting your hemorrhoids cleared up. Besides that it’s going to help deter hemorrhoids from occuring ever again. In addition to watching your diet plan consuming water and physical exercise will assist quite a bit. To ease the itching, discomfort, swelling and usual discomfort you ought to be able to acquire a variety of distinctive kinds of balms and salves. Witch hazel is well-known for its potential to decrease discomfort and itching. Make certain you keep your rear end nice and clean. Use topical antiseptics fairly often.Sitting a sitz bath can not just keep your rear end clean it can help a good deal with soothing the damaged location.

If perhaps you have detected blood in and around your anus, above all when deficating then you in all likelihood have bleeding hemorrhoids. If you have found this then it undoubtedly frightened you . Truthfully, bleeding hemorrhoids are not critical. Hemorrhoids are only just veinous tissues which have inflamed as a consequence of having under gone an extensive amount of pressure. This oftentimes transpires when deficating. If you usually do not eat good food or tend to be impatient when deficating or are too heavy or expecting a baby, that may well be the reason for the pressure. The inflamed veinous tissues are clotted with blood, developing a bulbous lump. If it ruptures that can cause your anus to bleed a great deal. It may get infected which may turn into a critical abnormal condition. Should you find out that you have bleeding hemorrhoids you would be wise to seek advice from a specialist right away. You want to obtain the correct hemorrhoid treatment so you can treat your hemorrhoid well before it results in it becoming a critical affliction. This write-up talks about a lot of the different hemorrhoid treatment potentials that you have available .

Surgery is the primary method to deal with bleeding hemorrhoids. Nevertheless, it has its downsides. For starters, surgery produces serious suffering. In addition, surgery will not ordinarily remedy so speedily. The safest hemorrhoid treatment for bleeding hemorrhoids is to avoid it altogether. It can be done if you find out that you have got hemorrhoids at its onset and get started on hemorrhoid treatment without delay. Take notice of your diet, specifically fiber and drink plenty of water. It is possible for hemorrhoids to mend practically with a little bit of care. Keep your anal area clean and always use an antiseptic.

There are two variations of surgery which are routinely employed to cure bleeding hemorrhoids. The first is known as ‘hemorrhoidal artery ligation’. . It involves identifying the veinous tissue and then ligating them. This practice utilizes a proctoscope. It also uses a Doppler transducer. The practice reduces the pressure in the veinous tissues and lessens the pain. Another favored practice used for treatment of bleeding hemorrhoids is generally known as a stapled hemorrhoidectomy. This method entails stapling the hemorrhoid. The stapled hemorrhoidectomy halts the bleeding. This variety of surgery is also a great deal less debilitating than other methods of surgery.

While a specialist is likely to propose medical surgery in order to eliminate your bleeding hemorrhoids,it is possible to mend bleeding hemorrhoids by using alternative hemorrhoid treatment techniques. You can potentially administer ointments and creams to lessen the itching and discomfort. You can apply a ‘sitz’ bath also. Essentially, if you can make yourself eat fruit and green vegetables as well as fiber that might help quite a lot. Try not to exert extreme pressure on your pelvic region, especially when deficating. If you are expecting a baby or too heavy be specially mindful to not speed the process. Hemorrhoids, can, and regularly do, remedy if you could possibly treat them.

Existing are numerous variations and intensity stages of hemorrhoids requiring different hemorrhoid treatment. For victims where the hemorrhoids are harmful enough, medical operations may very well be the number one solution for treatment of hemorrhoids. . What is deemed harmful for one particular person probably won’t appear to be so harmful for another. As a rule, if the anal opening is utterly covered with hemorroids that is regarded as harmful. Strictly speaking , thrombosed hemorrhoids and bleeding hemorrhoids are usually dysfunctions whereby you may consider a hemorrhoid treatment involving medical operations.

Not all the hemorrhoid treatment surgery choices are identical. In actual fact a great many of them are fairly uncomfortablel.Plus they may take some time to heal. Thankfully, a few of the more contemporary options ordinarily are not as painful, and yet they’re typically more valuable as a cure to overcome hemorrhoids. If you happen to be investigating medical operations as a hemorrhoid treatment plan then you are unquestionably making efforts to find out about what variations of medical operations are available to you. This short article was published to provide you a description of the particular variations of medical operations that are obtainable to overcome hemorrhoids.

Rubber Band Ligation is a regularly utilised sort of hemorrhoid medical operations . A very tiny rubber band approximately one mm across is shot directly onto the bottom of the hemorrhoid by a particular kind of device . The rubber band restrains the oxygen supply to the hemorrhoid. Inside of approx. 5-7 days or so the hemorrhoid dries out and dies which results in a scar.

You might want to consider laser surgery. Laser surgical treatment entails the utilization of a laser light to burn the hemorrhoid off. The process needs a considerably brief period of time hence you can go back home on the same day. it is an out-patient hemorrhoid treatment. Laser medical operations would not hold the usual problems pertaining to medical operations , in particular bleeding mainly because the lazer cauterizes the locality.

There’s a type of hemorrhoid treatment that necessitates stapling the hemorrhoid with a unique type of circular staple. This is known as a Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy and it’s fairly popular . It occasionally executed to remove any kind of bleeding hemorrhoids but primarily prolapsed hemorrhoids.

There’s a type of hemorrhoid treatment that consists of detecting followed by stitching up all the veins of which provide blood to the hemorrhoid. Whenever the the flow of blood is cutoff the hemorrhoid dries out. Inside about a week give or take it just is gone. This treatment solution, named Hemorrhoidal Artery Ligation Operation or HAL is gathering popularity mainly because it is rather painless.

All natural cures are normally the top way to opt for for hemorrhoid treatment. Even though you possibly can obtain other hemorrhoid treatment approaches, even when your hemorrhoids are really critical you can normally get rid of them through the use of natural choices. This report will address several sorts of 100 % pure hemorrhoid treatment cures that are offered.

Because you’re viewing this report, you’re without a doubt troubled by hemorrhoids at the present time and in search of a hemorrhoid treatment. In case you are trying to obtain prompt relief of the irritation and itching you may try out a hemorrhoid treatment known as witch hazel. Witch hazel actually should help by numbing the inflamed vicinity. You can normally obtain witch hazel from the store or get it on-line. Also, you will discover some balms that use witch hazel as the active ingredient for their hemorrhoid treatment

One well recommended, really cheap hemorrhoid treatment approach can be utilised that works pretty well. This strategy is termed a sitz bath. First of all, it can offer considerable prompt relief from the customary irritation and itching brought on by hemorrhoids. If you regularly apply it you will normally be cured of your hemorrhoids. Fill a tub with warm water; put in A good bit of of salt.The irritation and itching generated by hemorrhoids commonly is definitely because of harmful microorganisms. To disinfect the inflamed region and avoid infection, pour in an antiseptic.

You may know about employing Butcher’s Broom to aid you with the weakened blood flow brought on by hemorrhoids. This technique has been famous for a number of years as treatment for any disease involved with worn out veins so it is known as a hemorrhoid treatment. Also you might take into consideration employing Horse Chestnut which is an old folk treatment method for clotted blood. Both plant based treatments can be taken by mouth, normally in a hemorrhoid treatment tea. Ensure you’re not allergic to Horse Chestnut prior to takiing it.

Extreme instances of hemorrhoids may warrant surgical treatment . Extreme instances of hemorrhoids are whereby the whole anal orifice is covered with them more so, instances of bleeding hemorrhoids which call for intense hemorrhoid treatment. If you are afflicted with hemorroids that’re just merely irritating, you could more than likely eliminate them with home hemorrhoid treatment and with no need of surgical treatment except if they have already ended up being thrombosed or have begun to bleed.

Never assume all hemorrhoid treatment surgical removal alternate options are identical. Actually a lot of of them are terribly debilitatingl.In addition to that they in most cases take a considerably long time to heal. Thankfully, most of the more sophisticated variations normally are not as painful, but yet they’re as successful as a treatment solution to eliminate hemorrhoids. If you are thinking about surgical treatment as a hemorrhoid remedy then you are most likely hoping to discover what variants of surgical treatment are available to you. This material was published to provide you a description of the many variants of surgical treatment that can be obtained to eliminate hemorrhoids.

Among the list of numerous kinds of hemorrhoid surgical treatment you can find, Rubber Band Ligation is among the most widely recognized. With this form of surgical removal a rubber band approximately 1/25in . is shot securely upon the base of the hemorrhoid. The swollen veins that make up hemorrhoid eventually wither and drop off since the blood flow to them is constrain. It commonly takes close to a few days or so for the hemorrhoid to vanish.

You can possibly look into laser surgical removal. Laser surgical removal requires making use of a lazer light to zap the hemorrhoid off. The surgery requires a rather brief time period therefore you can return home on the same day. That is, it is an out-patient hemorrhoid treatment. Laser surgical treatment is not going to have the usual problems pertaining to surgical treatment , specially bleeding mainly because the lazer beam cauterizes the injury.

There exists a variation of hemorrhoid treatment which will involve stapling the hemorrhoid with a unique variation of circular staple. This is recognized as a Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy and it’s fairly widely used . It regularly performed to eradicate any kind of bleeding hemorrhoids but particularly prolapsed hemorrhoids.

A most recent variation of hemorrhoid surgical removal involves detecting all the swollen veins that supply blood to the hemorrhoid then stitching them in an effort to constrain the flow of blood to the hemorrhoid. As soon as the blood supply is hindered the hemorrhoid shrivels and drops off, leaving a small scar. This operation method is named as HALO which means Hemorrhoidal Artery Ligation Operation. This operation method is occasionally named as HAL which means Hemorrhoidal Artery Ligation. This operation method is widely used since it is fairly painless.