The National Cyber Security Alliance’s World Password Day could not have fallen on a more appropriate time than right now. Not even a week after one of the biggest stolen data credentials hack affected more than 272 million users, now has never been a better time to stay safe online with World Password Day. The breach
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Trend Micro security firm just released its safety report for the first quarter of 2014. As cybercriminals always aim at maximizing their gain, they keep on developing new advanced techniques and diversifying their targets. This report entitled “Cybercrime Hits the Unexpected” describes how cybercriminals now switch to unusual targets: they do work on advanced techniques
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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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Media freedom has experienced its darkest years over the decade, especially in Egypt, in Turkey, in Ukraine, but also in the United States on national security issues, as denounced by a study conducted by an American NGO called Freedom House. Various cases where press freedom has been violated have been studied: control of information, physical
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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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With its new internet law, Brazil seems to stand at the forefront of privacy respect on the internet on a worldwide basis. Last week, this law that was approved by the Brazilian parliament states that Brazilian data stored on servers abroad are within Brazilian juridiction. Brazil “takes the lead in this complex debate” said Ronaldo
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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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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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The cancellation of the European law that requires the retention of communication data, i.e. telephone and email data for at least 6 months brings trouble into the European Union. Leaders in the fight against cybercrime and terrorism who were happy about it are now quite concerned. On April 8th, EU Court of Justice canceled the
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NSA new boss, Michael S. Rogers, just announced to the Senate that the country would set up an official cyber- army : it will then cooperate with its air, land and sea counterparts. Admiral Rogers will thus be the head of the U.S. Cyber Command. He did not give further details indeed on this cyber-
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