While cybercrime continues to rise (increases), reaching five billion euros a year, governments and public authorities mobilize themselves on an international level: In the United States, earlier this year, Barack Obama announced the signing of a decree to strengthen the security of critical infrastructure against cyber-attacks in the fields of electricity, finance and aviation. Almost
Read More...In July 2009, the Internet on computer was very slow for several days throughout South Korea and many sites were unavailable, including official government websites. According to the information service in South Korea, North Korea was behind the attack. However, for this large-scale attack, computers located in several countries, including Belgium, were involved. These computers
Read More...As confimed by Europol, profits from cybercrime are being used to fund and develop other criminal activities and the impact and spread of cybercrime keeps on increasing. The European law enforcement agency recently published its Serious Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA) report and thus highlighted cybercrime as one of the areas requiring increased shared action
Read More...Identity theft has always been a concern, but it becomes even a bigger risk today, as many details of our private lives are openly accessible on the Internet. This makes it easier for hackers to steal someone’s identity — which can be worth thousands of dollars and can give many nightmares to those who have
Read More...SpamHaus, a company based in Switzerland operates on black listing servers which deliver mass spam mailings (DDoS). SpamHaus is thus said to be able to block 80% of unsolicited mails. However, from March 18th and during a few, this company and that of many networks have seen their operations disrupted by large-scale DDoS (Distributed Denial
Read More...The cyber attack that hit South Korea could come from North Korea, maybe not from China. And if these Chinese hackers … were military troups from North Korea? Seoul officials have identified the IP used for recent attacks against banks and the country’s media. A Government representative of Seoul blamed Pyongyang directly, the big brother
Read More...We heard that a summit on cyber-security soon to be held between U.S. and China. For several years, the United States and China have been accusing each other of launching cyber-attacks on IT companies, both private and public ones. Tom Donilon, the national security adviser of Barack Obama recently stated that Beijing should “take serious steps
Read More...The UK government has announced a new initiative within its national strategy for cyber security, a new deal against Cyber crime. Its Partnership for Reducing Cyber Crime (PRCC) aims at fighting against the growing threat of organized cyber criminals acting globally, through shared efforts from the police, industry experts and academics. The government is determined to
Read More...A new free website can now produce a map of the world showing where cyber-attacks are taking place. Deutsche Telekom introduced a website that displays real-time map of the cyber world attacks. This site sicherheitstacho.eu displays a globe showing countries with different colors, depending on the frequency of cyber-attacks. It displays attacks when events occur,
Read More...More than ten years after the adoption by the Council of Europe of the Convention on Cybercrime, the European Commission finally presented a proposal for a cybersecurity strategy. It is aimed at national and international key actors and plans on a decentralized system for the defense of cyberspace that goes beyond national borders. The discovery
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