Wednesday, 18 February 2026

Surprisingly, it’s not the iPhone, LG, Huawei or HTC and Windows Phone hardly gets a look in. Even the ‘Apple of China’, Xiaomi, isn’t leading the way?

The most popular manufacturer of smartphones in China is Samsung. One of the principle reasons is that Samsung makes phones with screens large enough to work well with the Chinese language character set when presented on web sites.

As part of our work at CC-Link, I often deliver presentations to groups of engineering companies that want to take advantage of the most popular network in Asia.

InfoSecurity
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Security awareness has long been a point of frustration for information security professionals. While many organizations conduct awareness training of some kind, they have struggled to develop effective training, as posters and knick-knacks urging employees to change passwords frequently have failed to improve their security behavior. Consequently, employee behavior continues to be a common cause of data breaches, with some in the industry even concluding that improving user behavior is impossible.

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Despite the fact that over 76% of QSAs and ISAs consider card holder data (CHD) discovery to be an important methodology to verify the scope of a PCI Audit, only one third of auditors carry out regular network discovery audits to identify un-secured CHD and ensure that correct processes are in place to achieve compliance.   This is according to the results of a recent survey carried out by critical data auditing specialists PixAlert in advance of the 2014 Autumn PCI DSS community events in Orlando and Berlin.

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With Conference season upon us, the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), has been busy championing the views of the private security industry; planning and attending meetings with MPs, Ministers, Peers, PCCs and think tanks at the Labour party conference (which is already underway) and the Conservative party conference next week.

InfoSecurity
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  1. Macmillan Cancer Support safeguards their volunteers with a lone working mobile app
  2. SIA to host eIDAS Workshop in Budapest
  3. Perforce and Polarion in joint partnership to tighten security of intellectual property
  4. Computacenter expert receives highest VMware design certification accolade
  5. S2 Security launches S2 Mobile Security Officer Revolutionary Table App
  6. Tenable says Shellshock exploit is the tip of the iceberg
  7. Options further strengthens its connectivity with the addition of new European markets
  8. BASH Shellshock vulnerability - Update2
  9. BSIA urges members to send in their 2015 award nominations as deadline draws nigh
  10. The mortal threat our civilization faces from the rise ISIL in Syria and Iraq
  11. Security expert reacts to critical vulnerability in Bash
  12. FBI warns on Unhappy/Rogue Employees
  13. Security expert on digital wallet payments
  14. DEFENCE SECRETARY SALUTES FIRST AFGHAN OFFICER CADETS
  15. MWR InfoSecurity: FAQ on Point of Sale data breaches



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