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We witnessed many cyber attacks on various companies in 2014, but the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment was the most fatal and the hacker’s identity is not yet confirmed. FBI is blaming North Korean Electronic army because few North Korean IP addresses were traced during the investigation. Sony Pictures were about to release a comedy “The Interview” and the plot is the assassination of North Korean President King-Jo-Un , who is equal to God for North Koreans. Hackers introduced themselves as ‘Guardians of Peace” GOP, sent a malware “Wiper” in Sony’s computer system infrastructure and deleted entire data from the servers. Hackers took all the official and personal emails and data. The impact was very controversial that Sony’s Co- Chairperson Ms Amy Pascal’s racial mail communications were also published by the hacker and she was fired. According to Kaspersky main threat comes from external sources as Spam and then from malware attacks in the form of viruses, worms and Trojans....

App industry is showing a high growth rate with huge number of downloads over the years. By June 2014 more than 75 billion apps were downloaded from Apple and 50 billion from Google Play. Apple paid more than $10 billion to their app developers in 2014 but by the very first week of January 2015 Apples has already spent around $500 million for app development. In the US itself more than 627,000 app developer jobs were created in 2014 and across 155 countries 1.4 million app catalogues were distributed. Global app economy was worth around $53Bn, in 2012 and the growth rate from 2012 -2016 is supposed to be at 66%. This sis made under the presumption that smart phone penetration in APAC and Latin American countries will grow than ever. There are more than 3 million app developers in the world and majority of them are Asians. Amongst them android developers are about 71%, HTML5 51%, Apple ios developers are 50%. As per the records every Indian has 17 apps and South Koreans lead wit...