The Symantec anti-virus software company recently confirmed that, cyber-attacks worldwide have increased by 42% in 2012. This increase is due to both techniques used by criminals getting much diversified and by hackers taking advantage of both individuals and businesses users carelessness. Thus, attacks on small businesses have been multiplied by three in 2012. With the
Read More...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...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...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...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
Read More...Martin Muench develops spyware for computers and mobile phones. His programs include the digital memory and search in the Internet business of victims through a trojan horse called Finspy. Martin Muench – a German autodidact of 31 years old – is proud of his product he recently presented to German journalists, for the first time.
Read More...If you are interested in cybersecurity, you should know about AES. Why? Because, cyber AES technology which stands for Advanced Encryption Standard is so sophisticated that it cannot be attacked. This is why the US National Security Agency uses it for information classified as top secret. AES has indeed been adopted for commercial use by
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