Two EU agencies, i.e. Europol and Eurojust were on the track of Blackshades, a malware that lets cybercriminals hijack a remote computer. More than a half-million computers in over 100 countries have been infected by this sophisticated malware. The police and judicial operation lasted indeed for two days, searching for the inventors, users and vendors
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When releasing its 2014 safety report on Data Breach Investigation Research, Verizon Wireless, the second largest U.S. security operator, made some comments about the evolution of the dangers on internet. Cybercrime is worth $ 290 billion per year, according to the Mischon de Reya New York law firm, which is specialized in dealing with such
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The web is fraught with danger. MediaTest just released the results of a research done for Kaspersky Lab in Belgium to understand whether men are more cautious concerning cybersecurity than women. So over 30 % of the men feel they better protect themselves against cybercriminals, but also a small 19% of women believe that men
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On May 6th, the French Telecom operator Orange admitted another hacking of clients’ and prospects’ personal data which has affected 1.3 million people. This happened just three months after a previous case that had affected about 800,000 of them. “A limited amount of personal information about customers and prospects” have been copied during an intrusion
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Nations, consumers and businesses are targeted by a lot of malware. A new research finds the link between them and criminal organizations. Nearly 75 % of new purchased computers are infected with dangerous malware. This is what reveals a research conducted jointly by the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, IDC and the National University of Singapore
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A young Canadian hacker has been arrested in Ontario (Canada), after having stolen social insurance numbers, using HeartBleed security bug. He is the first person arrested for stealing data using HeartBleed, this bug that has been much talked about in the media and is estimated by some experts to be “Internet worst nightmare.” An investigation
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Kaspersky Lab’s latest report “Financial Cyber Threats in 2013” refers to cybercrime affecting this virtual currency. According to the “Financial Cyber Threats in 2013” conducted by Kaspersky Lab, malware targeting Bitcoin were quite frequent in 2013. The number of attacks against the crypto- currency has actually increased by more than 2.5 to achieve 8.3 million
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Of course, you have heard of this SSL Certificates bug called Heartbleed which recently became famous. Discover what this bug is and how to protect yourself from it. What is Heartbleed? This is indeed a secuirity bug in the OpenSSL Protocol in Android that has been recently discovered. It can enable a third party to
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Cybercrime is costive … According to the white paper “The Link Between pirated software and cybersecurity Breaches”, published by Microsoft IDC and the National University of Singapore in 2014, companies will spend US$ 356 billion, due to malware attack or data loss. Companies shall spend US$ 127 billion to the security and US$ 364 billion
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Orange is a major player in the French surveillance system. This has just been revealed by an internal document of the British secret service (GCHQ). Indeed, in this note, it is said that the French secret service (DGSE) has worked closely with “a French telecommunications operator.” But the description of the telecom company specific skills,
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