"If you take an issue like targeting social need, when that was introduced in England it was given a budget, but here it was not, " he said.

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Social engineering and the related spear phishing, which uses personal information from social networks for targeting, will remain an important security threat to business in 2012 and an even larger threat to consumers.

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The proposal proposed to save 2% of GDP by reforming the pension system and more effectively targeting social payments (0.8% of GDP) and by cutting expenditures on the armaments program and on the law enforcement organs (another 1.2% of GDP).

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