Minimum prison sentences shall be required against cybercriminals perpetrating attacks on information systems within the European Union. The European countries have until September 4th, 2015 to transpose into their national law the provisions of the European Directive No. 2013/40/UE of August 12th 2013, which strengthens the preventive measures related to information systems attacks. This law
Read More...Cybercrime means money for a lot of cybercriminals continue to get more professional. Those who want to launch cyber-attacks are still willing to pay more to exploit any software vulnerability. Thus, for a new attack created in Java or Flash, the gain can be up to US$ 100,000 paid by a “Paunch” criminal, the designer
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Alcatel-Lucent said there had been a recent “strong growth” of malware and cybercriminals targeting smartphones and broadband devices. This increase is parallel to the number of tablets and/or smartphones users worldwide. KindSight, one of Alcatel-Lucent subsidiaries just released a safety report for the second quarter of 2013. It thus provides the top 20 security threats
Read More...McAfee security solutions editor just released a report developed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). After some research led by a group of economists, experts in intellectual property and security researchers, CSIS estimated that at the international level, acts of cybercrime could generate a huge loss of about $ 500 billion per
Read More...According to the United Nations (UN), the war on the Internet has now become a reality. The UN has urged the international community to further cooperate for a better track down of cybercriminals. The war on the Internet has actually started, as mentioned by the UN members, at an international conference that brought together technology
Read More...Cyber-attacks increased in Switzerland in 2012, they are now a key target. That is making the country to rank from the 49th to 47th among the target countries, according to Symantec company which also believes that the Swiss financial center is a prime target. The number of computers becoming zombies after an infection spam rose
Read More...EU needs to strengthen its sanctions against Cybercriminals and will be subject to stricter European sanctions under a draft directive adopted by the European Parliament on July 4th. For several years, cybercrime cases have continued to grow, thus getting more intense and diversified on a more global scale and this is why there are more sanctions against
Read More...Microsoft and the FBI are assaulting the Citadel networks. Microsoft and the FBI have launched a specific attack against botnets, those networks of zombie computers infected with malware, without their users knowing about it. With the support of more than 80 countries, they thus have launched a strong offensive against one of the largest cybercrime
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Did you ever realize that there was a Russian-American cooperation?The United States and Russia are also vulnerable to attacks in the cyberspace. Therefore government experts and analysts ingare try to identify on how the traditional arms control can be applied to a possible new type of war. The United States and Russia are even considering
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Cybercrime does not only affect others. Be careful and you will be protected from hackers and other malpractice from the specialists of Internet identity theft. We offer you below 7 simple tips to prevent being the next victim of cybercriminals. 1. Do not let your passwords be accessible to others: do not write your passwords
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