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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The NSA just confirmed to have signed a contract with VuPEN to receive data on IT system vulnerabilities. One might think that the NSA, as VuPEN does as well as many companies specialized in computer security, operated forums, newsletters and private spaces dedicated to cracks to be informed about the latest developments in vulnerabilities. The
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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
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In 2012, cyberattacks have led to 6% of failures affecting both landline and mobile telephone networks in the European Union, according to a report recently published by the European Agency for Network and Information Security Information (ENISA). This ENISA figure is even more striking, that network disruptions due to cyberattacks have affected more people than
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
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The Chinese Internet Center recently announced that the number of Chinese internet users in China rose to 591 million, which implies a 10% increase in one year. Indeed, 40% of the Chinese people use internet in their daily lives. These statistics were published by the China Internet Network Information Center. The Chinese government encourages Internet
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
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