According to HP, the cost of cybercrime has increased by 78% in four years and in the same, the time required to respond to attacks has more than doubled. Moreover, attacks are getting much more frequent. Developed by the Ponemon Institute for HP, the 2013 edition of the Cost of Cybercrime study shows that cybercrime
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Indonesia has become the country hosting the largest number of cyber-attacks in the world, as revealed in a study of Akamai, a company specializing in computer servers. Indonesia now ranks first, ahead of China for the second quarter of 2013. These two countries concentrate nearly 71 % of the world cybercriminals. If Akamai acknowledge the
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The booming use of smartphones and mobile tablets make these tools to be very vulnerable to cybercriminals attacks who keep on refining their techniques. Users are just not aware of the risks, and technologies are yet unsuited to fight those attacks. “Today a smartphone is more like a computer than a phone, its basic use
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According to a new U.S. survey, more and more web users would like to be anonymous online, but still think it is not possible to avoid observation by specific people or organisations. In a survey of 792 American internet users, 86 % said they have taken specific actions to delete or mask their digital footprints:
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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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