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An annual security report released Tuesday by technology titan Cisco warns that banks and online social networks are prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyber crooks. "Criminals have been taking note of the large crowds in social-networking sites.

The new record exceeds by 24 centimeters the Christmas tree in Aracaju, Brazil, the city that had held the record since 2007 with a tree 110.11 meters high. Carlos Martinez, the representative of Guinness World Records, Saturday certified the new...

Brazilians aged 15 to 64, and divides them into four levels: illiteracy, rudimentary literacy, basic literacy and full literacy. Those who belong to the first two levels are considered functionally illiterate.     There are different concepts to identify functional illiteracy.

The programme aims to help students sitting the principles of business (POB) and principles of accounts (POA) examinations at the CXC level to cope with the expenses...A release from the NCB Foundation said there were now 108 schools applying for...

Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele didn't genetically engineer "Aryan" twins in a Brazilian town, National Geographic researchers report. Cândido Godói, a Brazilian town of 6,000 people, is known for its high rate of twins, particularly among its German families.

CEO Dov Moran plans to market the modu 1 handset in Brazil through mobile operator Claro Internacional SA. "The launch of the handset in Brazil is an important milestone in Modu's growth track. This the first of several launches planned...

Drill here, drill now On Aug. 22, we lost power for 45 minutes; a week later we lost power for more than three hours. These events made me ever more mindful of how much we depend on energy, how disruptive...

Brazil E-Voting Machines Not Hacked... But Van Eck Phreaking Allowed Hacker To Record Votes from the there's-an-issue-there dept Last week, we noted that an attempt to let hackers crack e-voting machines in Brazil failed, but Slashdot points out that someone...

This center compliments HCL's operations in Sao Paulo and will offer a range of services, including enterprise application services, custom applications development and maintenance, and remote infrastructure management to clients primarily in Latin America, North America and Europe, it said...