Cyber crime has come a long way from War Games: Cyber criminals are more advanced than ever. Learn about the history of cyber crime and find out how cybercrime first started and evolved – and most importantly – how to protect yourself from it. Where Does Cyber Crime Come From; Where Doesn’t It Come From
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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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The military program law (LPM) has just been officially published on December 19th after being accepted by the Senate. This limits actions from the opponents to the law, including MPs who challenge one of this law articles that provides broader access to internet data by the public authorities. “This article raised much concerns among the
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The European Council and Microsoft have just signed an agreement concerning their cooperation in the new Cybercrime @ Octopus Microsoft Project. This project, which will start on January 1st 2014, aims to help countries around the world to implement the European Council Convention on Cybercrime and strengthen data protection and safeguards of the rule of
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Europol and Interpol just had their first joint conference on cybercrime, so as to strengthen international cooperation to address current and future challenges in the cybersecurity. Over 250 professionals attended the 2-day conference in Europol headquarters in The Hague. Participants from 42 countries, representing more than 80 different organizations, either representatives of the authorities in
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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...EU needs to strengthen its sanctions against Cybercriminals and will be subject to stricter European sanctions under a draft directive adopted by the European Parliament on July 4th. For several years, cybercrime cases have continued to grow, thus getting more intense and diversified on a more global scale and this is why there are more sanctions against
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European Union means to tighten its measures against cybercrime. While Barack Obama and Xi Jinping shared about increased cooperation, on combating cybercrime among other topics during the Chinese-US summit, the European Parliament was preparing a new law implying tougher penalties for criminals and common legal measures in the European Union. Cybercrime is increasing and becoming more internationally
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
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