Hacking has been around a long time and evolved into a two-sided battle between digital cowboys. Who are the most infamous hackers and hacker groups in Internet history? The History of Internet Hacking: The Digital Cowboys Today’s cowboys don’t ride horse and they don’t ride steel. These guys ride the digital network we call the
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There is a new resolution for digital cinema and computer graphics. This is the latest 4k resolution. It basically measures horizontal resolution at 4000 pixels. 4k videos have better picture quality and high definition. The surface visibility and the detailing of the picture and images is naturally better. You can make use of Peer to
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Small businesses are the easy targets for e-crimes. The Australia government gives A$15 million funding to discourage cyber security threats for small business. The world has indeed turned into a global village. Thanks to the easy availability of internet and the recent innovations in the field of technology. We are very much dependent on the
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The federal agency shall launch this year its “Malware Investigator”, an interactive malware analysis system. It shall allow companies and individuals to better cope with cyber-attacks. James Comey, who has been recently appointed as the new FBI director, announced that the agency was working on a system analyzing malicious software that would be implemented by
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Cybercrime could lead to 3,000 billion by 2020, if companies and governments do not put in place measures in a short time, according to a report by the World Economic Forum. Threats posed by cybercrime could also significantly slow down technological advances over the next decade, says the authors of this study, conducted in partnership
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According to a Symantec study, it is in Africa that cybercrime is most severe. As analysed by Security Affairs, this study shows that it through using smartphones that computer viruses and malware spread the most. “A study conducted in Africa in 2012 showed that the development of smartphones involves the increased use of social networks
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McAfee has just unveiled its latest analysis of the main cybercrime trends for the third quarter of 2013 : it shows that cybercriminals have not taken much holiday this summer. “During this summer, we have added 20 million of new samples in the McAfee” zoo”, which now gathers a total of 170 million elements”. We
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PureVPN, one of the VPN providers, went through a severe hacking attack on October 4th. Cybercriminals breached into PureVPN content management system WHMCS, where all the clients’ information are stored. This actually happened during the WHMCS system upgrade, at a time offering some a vulnerability hole in the accounts of some clients who did not
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Europol and Interpol just had their first joint conference on cybercrime, so as to strengthen international cooperation to address current and future challenges in the cybersecurity. Over 250 professionals attended the 2-day conference in Europol headquarters in The Hague. Participants from 42 countries, representing more than 80 different organizations, either representatives of the authorities in
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In California, a new law will enable teenagers to remove embarrassing photos or comments they have posted from their personal pages on social networks. California really wants to save the reputation of its e- teens with this called “the gum law” that has been enacted by the Governor of California and will come into force
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