The Symantec anti-virus software company recently confirmed that, cyber-attacks worldwide have increased by 42% in 2012. This increase is due to both techniques used by criminals getting much diversified and by hackers taking advantage of both individuals and businesses users carelessness. Thus, attacks on small businesses have been multiplied by three in 2012. With the
Read More...A recent study shows that cybercrime business today has become quite an organised field, with executives, managers and workers who depend on a variety of service providers to keep the illegal operations running. The 2013 Cybercrime Report from Fortinet explains on such arena of criminal organisations either competing with each other to find and hire
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The democratization of broadband Internet requires daily discharges of billions of data on the Internet, whether video, images, sounds, text, data…. submitted by individuals, companies and even government agencies. This is what we call the “big data”, a term that implies a bit of marketing but explains a reality: the amount of data sent, received
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Skype is one of the most popular services for chat and phone conversations over the Internet, appealing to 250 million monthly connected users: it is a great way to keep contacts with friends and family but also business contacts based far or even abroad. But in China, people’s phone and chat conversations in Skype can
Read More...Every day, millions of people connect to Facebook and Twitter, do shopping online or comment on articles on news websites and want to stay anonymous. These activities became quite common but leave traces and the user does not always measure the consequences of this: some personal information, such as the age, address and shopping habits are
Read More...To browse through the Internet from a ‘virtual private network’ or VPN for short, is like wearing a cloak of invisibility. There are a number of top-notch Internet browsing applications, especially constructed to make the surfer as safe as possible when using the Web. When employees access the Internet in their organisational roles, they are
Read More...Halloween is already on the doorstep and you can protect your online identity. Many of us are getting creative on the costumes, what mask to wear and how to be unrecognizable to others. This happens once a year that we all try to protect our real identity for one night – for fun. Because it’s
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