A bot can guess banking information on a credit card in a few seconds, as proved by researchers from Newcastle University. Taking your bank card in your wallet and entering the different information to make an online purchase takes up to one minute, right. It may sound to be quite fast, but it’s still ten times
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You can get more and more free Wi-Fi hotspots available in cafes, hotels and airports… what cybercriminals love as it makes it even easier for them to access to your data through them! For the last 10 years, cybercrime has become more professional and has indeed become a “real industry”, seeking profitability. The volume of
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After driving people nuts in the US, Australia or New Zealand, Pokemon Go the mobile augmented reality game is currently converting the world. Nintendo as well as Apple, Google among others see it as a jackpot. Pokemon Go, the already famous augmented reality mobile game, already present in over 40 countries, is actually a global
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The Privacy Shield, a new law framework concerning the transfer of personal data from EU to the USA has just been passed by the 28 states of the EU. Let us study its strengths and weaknesses compared to the current framework. The regulatory system to oversee the transfer of data between Europe and the US was
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With the long and drawn out battle between the FBI and Apple over encryption, an end to the case has been found but it isn’t quite as simple a victory. As Apple declare victory against FBI but fight continues as the war of privacy vs security carries on. After the case was bought before the
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In a report that comes as no surprise to anyone anymore, but a toy that combines with technology has been found to include a glaring security loophole. It is found that the Fisher-Price Smart Bear open to hacking, compromising sensitive information about the child the toy is intended for. Security experts at a Boston-based company,
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In the wake of yet another cyber attack on customer details, this time with UK pub chain Wetherspoons, it has been revealed that cyber security experts are charging an ever soaring rate for companies to protect themselves and their customer’s data. In the past year, there has been more high profile hacks and cyber attacks than
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Only months after the US government suffered a data breach from hackers thought to be of Russian origin, President Obama is having to deal with another attack on home soil, this time with China accused of huge breach of US government data. This time, the attack came on OPM, the Office of Personnel Management, which holds
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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...The French National Commission on Informatique & Liberté (CNIL) urges Google to obey regulations on personal data. They need to comply with the French law on personal data protection, within three months for the US giant not to receive a fine that can reach up to € 300,000. The investigation by the French commission confirmed that
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