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Vodafone hack impact on Vodacom South Africa
The telecommunications giant said 1,827 customers had their accounts accessed, with criminals potentially gaining their names and a few bank details. Vodafone has become the latest United Kingdom telco to suffer a cyber attack , after personal information, including bank details, of more than 1,800 customers was stolen last week.
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Kaspersky Lab mobile malware data will keep IT pros up at night
Singapore, last quarter's leader, was moved to second place (4.2%) and 3% of users in Turkey were under threat (third). Besides the rising numbers of malware, Kaspersky also saw an increase in banking trojans across the board, with operators targeting both online and mobile payments systems and banking platforms.
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Time Warner Cable plans for TV on the Internet
Rutledge said. This revised narrative strengthened today, with Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) reporting a narrow video subscriber loss of only 7,000 - the company's best third quarter since 2006. Wunderlich Securities analysts were expecting 191,000 subscriber additions. Shares of Time Warner Cable and Charter were up 2.5 percent and 3.6 percent, respectively, in midday trading on Thursday after both companies posted strong third-quarter results.
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MGM Resorts Creates REIT for Hotels to Help Boost Value
A year ago, it lost $20.3 million, or 4 cents per share. It would lease them from MGM Growth Properties under 10-year leases that would each include four five-year extensions. There are now twenty-one analysts that cover MGM Resorts worldwide stock. The rating is an average of the various different ratings given by analysts and brokers to MGM Resorts worldwide, and then averaged into one rating by a team of analysts at Zacks in Chicago, Illinois.
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Insurance company closes, but it's not alone
People need "system knowledge" to successfully navigate health care, such as whether to use private health insurance when admitted to a public hospital. Kathleen McManus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases and global Health. Federal officials said, for example, that a health plan might cover the services of a doctor practicing at one location, but not the services of the same doctor practicing at a different location.
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Lions Should Trade Calvin Johnson To Panthers — ESPN's Schefter
Calvin Johnson is at the peak of his career and there may not be a better time to trade him than now. Johnson had five catches for 85 yards in the game before leaving the game with a hurt ankle. As long as he is able to heal over the bye, Johnson will be a WR1 Week 10 against the Green Bay secondary that was just embarrassed by the Broncos. "Obviously, we need to win more football games".