On Tuesday the French firm Vupen, whose researchers develop software hacking techniques and sell them to government agency customers, announced that it had already developed an exploit that could take over a Window 8 machine running Internet Explorer 10, in spite of the many significant security upgrades Microsoft built into the latest version of its operating system.

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The ransomware version found by the BKA uses a pop-up window that says the machine has been locked down due to "unauthorised network activity".

BBC: Ransomware page

What CITOs have not yet understood is that machine data can be a powerful window on customer behavior.

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Again, you would need to fall in the window of number of samples x regions of interest x barcodes x machine capacity.

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Tanjung and Marzuki, he says, are just window dressing for a party that remains what it always was: a patronage machine.

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Clearing a path to the market soon will be the Winbot 7, a compact machine billed by manufacturer Ecovacs Robotics as the first full-service window-washing robot.

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And then magic struck-the online slot machine displayed three identical icons, each saying PAY MY BILLS. A window popped up announcing Wang as the grand-prize winner.

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