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Tyre&Auto Southbourne Group Review: Understanding the importance of regular car maintenance12/9/2016 Ostensibly, most car owners these days were meticulous in taking care of their own cars. They always keep the safety standards of their car as well as making sure that it is in perfect running condition. And included in owning a car is the responsibility of ensuring everyone’s safety. How to properly brake a car is usually the first rule in driving a car, which also indicates the significance of safety of the driver as well as the passengers.
One of the most trusted companies in South Coast of Hampshire in handling car services is Tyre&Auto Southbourne Group. It is known as a family-operated company that has a great and honest record in trading car parts and accessories, and many customers now depend on its automobile expertise. Tyre&Auto offers car servicing, tyres, brake checks, MOT’s, and free seasonal tune-ups and check-ups. Are you in a hurry for a tyre quotation? Tyre&Auto can accommodate you since they have online transactions that aim to make tyre fitting faster. Their car maintenance and repair were also first-class and they can provide local collect and delivery of your car. In addition, MOT test is included in Tyre&Auto Southbourne Group wherein it involves checking the safety of your car as well as the amount of exhaust emission. You can be at the right time in the renewal of your road tax and your car insurance with the company’s regular reminders that aims to assist you in your yearly MOT certificate requirements since such reminders include the due of your test. Owning a car can give a person some benefits like personal comfort, mobility as well as emotional or psychological benefits. It is really essential in today’s world and Tyre&Auto Southbourne Group also sees its significant role in the society, thus the company strives to only give good automobile service to their customers.
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Play strong role in enacting stronger state fraud laws
Two truths will govern our success in getting strong state fraud laws onto the books: We must prepare our 2017 legislative agenda now; waiting until December or January is too late. Fraud fighters also can play a pivotal role in getting fraud bills on the front burner in many states. We’re in an election year, with less than 90 days until we vote for a new president and Congress. We’ll also vote for quite a few state legislators, and a handful of governors. We tend to be Washington-centric, thinking that who we put into the White House and Congress will affect us the most. Actually, most of us are directly affected more by what happens in our state capitals than in Washington. Fraud fighters thus should be alert to creating opportunities in our own backyards. The Coalition is using the summer to plan the states where there’s the strongest need for new fraud laws — and a solid chance we can get bills enacted into law. The Coalition’s government affairs committee meets this week to discuss the best hotspot states. Later this month, I’ll be on a conference call with state IASIU chapters. We’ll discuss the grassroots role that fraud fighters can play in writing their legislators in key target states next year. The best way to convince insurers to make anti-fraud bills a priority in a given state is to make a business case why statehouse efforts are in everyone’s best interests. Let me know if you think your state is a prime candidate for strong fraud bills in 2017. Partnerships among fraud fighters and other allies give us the best chance of success. Together, we can make a difference. International Financial Corporation Fraud Regulatory Commission
Front office roles are no longer the only ones where employees can receive large salaries in the banking sector. Nowadays, support roles such as risk management and oversight can command the same three-figure salaries as their front office counterparts. The banking sector has undergone significant change in the last decade. For much of the past few years the industry has found itself in the dock. The fallout from the financial crisis, several high profile cases of banking skullduggery and massive fines handed out as a result has led to a rise in the importance of non-revenue producing roles. “There’s much more of an emphasis now on how you run the business and manage risk, rather than making money for the sake of making money,” explains Jonathan Astbury, Associate Partner at Newington International. “The focus has moved from revenue drivers to a risk management and clear and prudent oversight perspective. “Salaries in front office haven’t changed, so banks are having to invest out more in general. However, the big change has been the bonus potential of front office, which is now a lot lower than it was previously, and those savings are filtering through to back and middle office.” Of course, much of the bad behavior within banking historically and has been blamed on the fact that remuneration was linked to the revenue generated and proprietary trading risk was rewarded. “In the old days it was quite conceivable that a good salesman would get a bonus of between £400k and £1m, and that was purely on the basis that they were making at least 10 times that in revenue,” says Jonathan. “Firstly, those revenue figures are much lower these days so bonuses have naturally come down. Secondly, the overall markets are not as active: there is increased pressure on margins, and you’ve also got the advent of electronic trading and direct market access. A lot of work is now done by systems, not people, which is a cheaper and permanent change.” New high paying roles The newer high paying roles are centered around functions like senior level project managers and senior analysts, many of whom have been employed to run large projects that will help banks save money and work more efficiently in the long term. Compliance and regulatory affairs feature heavily as well: “There has been an exponential rise in salaries in compliance because there is a real shortage of talent at a senior level,” explains Jonathan. “Regulatory change is an ongoing and evolutionary process, so even when new regulations have been absorbed there will be more on the way. “Specialized research areas are also quite lucrative, high level academics are being brought in to help develop trading strategies, and to help develop products. Financial and cybercrime is also an area that’s growing in importance and in demand for talent.” Finding the talent Sourcing the right people often comes as a result of headhunting, with remuneration being a key driver influencing whether a candidate chooses to move jobs. Whilst London is still a key hub, many banks are onshoring the non-front office roles to other UK cities such as Birmingham. There’s no need for front office to consider changing roles yet, however. Recent surveys by salary benchmarking site Emolument shows that salespeople, origination, and trader or structurer in investment banking are still the highest paid roles in banking. Prized certification marks key developmental milestone for flag carrier after transformative year
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines www.vietnamairlines.com has been certified as a 4-Star Airline by the international air transport rating organisation Skytrax ranking it alongside some of the world’s most reputable airlines, including British Airways, Emirates and Lufthansa. Vietnam Airlines new President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Duong Tri Thanh, accepted the official certification during the World Airline Awards event at Farnborough International Airshow 2016. Awarded after comprehensive Skytrax evaluation across all customer-facing product and service factors both onboard flights and at airports served by Vietnam Airlines, the prestigious 4-Star Airline certification is recognition for the significant recent improvements that Vietnam Airlines has made to the quality of its product and service standards, as part of its strategic plan to establish itself as the leading carrier for the region. Last year Vietnam Airlines underwent a dramatic transformation, launching its new corporate identity and beginning a major fleet-wide upgrade to replace its entire fleet of wide body aircraft – significantly enhancing its product offering. 2015 saw Vietnam Airlines become the first airline to operate the new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner nonstop between Southeast Asia and Europe, and the first Asian airline to operate both Boeing and Airbus’ modern next-generation aircraft at the same time. A total of 19 Boeing 787s and 14 Airbus A350-900 XWBs will be delivered to Vietnam Airlines by early 2019. At the same time, Vietnam Airlines implemented a programmed to upgrade service levels to international 4-Star Airline standards – spearheaded by Vietnam Airlines’ new President and CEO Mr. Thanh in his previous role as Executive Vice President. Commenting on the news, Mr. Thanh said “I am honored to accept this highly prestigious accolade on behalf of Vietnam Airlines. This fantastic achievement is testament to the hard work of all of Vietnam Airlines’ dedicated employees, and an important indicator of the excellent progress we are making towards our goal of becoming one of the best-regarded airlines in Asia-Pacific.” Mr. Edward Plaisted, CEO of Skytrax said “This 4-Star Airline rating is an excellent achievement for Vietnam Airlines and the result of their hard work across a range of product and service areas. Introducing two brand new aircraft types into the fleet in such a short space of time is a difficult task, but the reward for Vietnam Airlines is a fabulous new product in their core long haul market. We acknowledge the considerable change and improvement they have achieved, with a new service concept rolled out in Business Class and an overhaul of cabin staff training procedures – all of which will further strengthen Vietnam Airlines position as a major Asian airline.” Vietnam Airlines offers the UK’s only nonstop flights to Vietnam, operating daily services from Heathrow Terminal 4 to Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City. Flights are carefully scheduled to offer convenient overnight journeys in both directions, and excellent onward connections via its comprehensive network of over 40 destinations in Asia, including 16 within Vietnam 5 in Indochina and the rest in other countries. Return fares from Heathrow to Ho Chi Minh City currently start from £396 per person, inclusive of taxes. For further information and reservations visit www.vietnamairlines.com or speak to a travel agent. Spoofing the identities of big, respected companies is a key tactic that cyber criminals use to trick their victims. We’ve seen it happen with IKEA and especially Post Denmark and Postnord. And we’ve seen not once, not twice, but tens of times in the past year alone!
And now it’s happening again. This time, cyber criminals are impersonating Telia, a telecom giant with operations in Europe and Asia. Telia has hundreds of millions of customers who could all become targets for this ransomware attack. Highly targeted campaign using a mix of attack vectors The Torrentlocker family is well known for its highly targeted spam email campaigns. Attackers carefully localize the emails, ransom notes and other elements tied to the campaign. The more targeted the attack, the higher the chances for it to be effective. In this attack, victims are baited with an invoice which appears to come from Telia, a trusted telecom company. The primary target for the attack is Sweden, but additional campaigns may follow, replicating the same model. The psychological factor plays a key role in current malware attacks, but it’s only used as a hook. Once the victim triggers the infection, the malicious tech behind it comes into play. Here’s how the attack unfolds. The spam email used in this attack has the following contents: From: [spoofed / fake return address] Subject line: Fwd: [name of recipient] Invoice for Telia The spam email a single link, which points to a bunch of compromised web pages [sanitized]: http://bluecrabcharters [.] com.au/1yaI3zFtWAOb/sD5TRZz.php?id=[%navn to receive%] -> http://eok9.teliabills [.] Com / mditqyzo.php? Id = bWF0c0BoZW1wZWwuY29t When the victim clicks the link, he/she will be redirected to the webpage you can see below, where a Captcha code is displayed. When the victim fills out the code, the TorrentLocker payload will be downloaded from the following servers [sanitized]: http://tendearteplast [.] com / 1.exe http://gettingmarried [.] ie / 1.exe It’s important to know that the payload will be only downloaded once per link and on one condition: that the victim’s IP is from Sweden. If an IP from another country is used, the victim will be redirected to Google. Cyber criminals didn’t overlook a single detail when building this campaign. The moment the malicious code is run, it will connect to a central C & C server [sanitized]: manybigtoys [.] Com It will then register the infected computer and the data harvested from it, which includes certificates from the infected device. A new thing about this attack is that the ransomware will inject itself into the memory of the “explorer.exe” process (child process). It will then drop the main component with an arbitrary filename. Available contact details on the device will also be collected and sent to the aforementioned C&C server, certainly to be used in future spam campaigns. Multiple subdomains are used as part of the infection chain, the same as in previous ransomware campaigns [sanitized]: https://pvebubadan.manybigtoys [.] com / topic.php https://ucat.manybigtoys [.] com / topic.php https://urile.manybigtoys [.] com / topic.php The next step is for TorrentLocker to encrypt all the data files available on the local drive and on connected network drives, if there are any. In this attack, TorrentLocker also has the ability to remain dormant. This sleep function helps it avoid sandboxing technologies. Among other things, the ransomware generates a value of “6000” before touching “explorer.exe” or “vssadmin.exe”. If the victim navigates to the indicated website to pay the ransom, the TOR address mentioned in the ransom note will redirect to the same main C & C server mentioned before [sanitized]: https: // urile[.]manybigtoys.com/help.php?user_code=1op26yr&user_pass=6131 Victims are extorted to pay approximately 1.15 Bitcoins, which is worth around 4099 SEK (441 EUR). There’s a time limit for the payment, which, if surpassed, will double the ransom value. Almost 2 days after the attack, antivirus detection is still unsatisfactory: 19/57 on VirusTotal. Conclusion We can’t emphasize this enough: a backup is the best protection for your data in case of a ransomware attack! Actually, you should have multiple backups. And use this anti-ransomware checklist to see what else you can do to ensure that you’re never hit by encrypting malware. We have a long road ahead when it comes to minimizing the impact of ransomware, which is one more reason to push for basic cyber security education and proactive protection. Continue reading Claims Investigators Singapore
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Medi-claim frauds can be fabricated via fraudulent physician’s prescriptions, false documents, false bills, exaggerated claims etc. However, our responsibility is to show you the truth and to find out the real facts. Moreover, the insurance fraud is increasing day by day and our responsibility is to change the modus operandi in each matter for staying above from the fraudulent thinking. To know more about our services, please do contact us anytime. We are reachable through email and direct telephonic consultation.Kindly contact us on [email protected] according to your requirement respectively. The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only.
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