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Vodafone Romania has picked Samsung Electronics to deploy its fully virtualised RAN software (vRAN) and radio solutions to roll out Open RAN in Romania.

With one-year mark of the war in Ukraine fast approaching, the Romanian Red Cross turned to UiPath to aid in humanitarian and human rights catastrophe

COMPANY NEWS UiPath (NYSE: PATH), a leading enterprise automation software company, today announced that it has supported the Romanian Red Cross (RRC) in digitising and automating the reporting of donations collected by the organisation for the benefit of Ukrainian refugees in Romania. The RRC, a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organisation that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education inside Romania.

A recently released study using aggregated data from Surfshark Antivirus shows that every 50th scan finds at least one threat.

Australia will host a virtual meeting of an international counter-ransomware task force early next year, a statement says.

Authorities in Romania have arrested two men suspected of using the REvil Windows ransomware in some 5000 attacks, the Europol police agency says in a somewhat rambling statement.

Most people in the infosec industry are adamant that attribution is the most difficult part of the process, but Romanian security firm Bitdefender's Daniel Clayton is an exception. The vice-president of global services and support said this was not really the case.

Germany's Dussmann Group, which offers services ranging from technical management, catering, security and cleaning to commercial property management, appears to have taken a hit from a gang of malicious attackers who have used the Nefilim Windows ransomware to stage the attack.

Software giant Microsoft has paid US$25 million to the US Government to settle investigations into bribery by its Hungarian operations, with the company entering into a non-prosecution agreement with the US Department of Justice and a cease-and-desist order with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Infosec outfit Resecurity, which has come under scrutiny by some well-known researchers over its attribution of some recent hacks, has hit back by accusing its detractors of having ulterior motives for indulging in such criticism.

Security vendor Malwarebytes has acquired Binisoft, a privately-held Romanian company that created Windows Firewall Control.

Employees must be told by companies if their corporate email accounts are being monitored, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

A former Romanian minister and three others, who were jailed in March for embezzling the discount offered by Microsoft for software provided to schools, have had their appeals dismissed and their fines and jail terms increased.

The iPhone famously launched in the US with an exclusive carrier, greatly growing AT&T's customer base as AT&T failed to properly grow its 3.5G network, yet requests for iPhone sales in the US and the rest of the world to be offered on as many carriers as possible continue, and are slowly being granted.