Putting a password on your smartphone is a simple step to reduce personal information or identity being stolen by cyber criminals. According to Symantec's latest cyber-crime report, there was a 42 per cent increase in targeted cyber attacks in 2012, with manufacturing and finance, insurance and real estate being the top
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Big Data is in. There is a huge demand not only for Big Data Scientists but for Big Data Analysts as well. While a big data scientist needs various capabilities and skills to analyze and mash up various data sources, a big data analyst needs to performs data analysis on a