PureVPN, one of the VPN providers, went through a severe hacking attack on October 4th. Cybercriminals breached into PureVPN content management system WHMCS, where all the clients’ information are stored. This actually happened during the WHMCS system upgrade, at a time offering some a vulnerability hole in the accounts of some clients who did not
Read More...To avoid being confronted with cybercrime, it is best to understand the different forms it can take and there is a lexicon for that. Here are some key words to identify what cybercriminals concocted to defraud users. Hacking / Malware In the lexicon, the term hacker is an individual who has mastered IT and acting in
Read More...In July 2009, the Internet on computer was very slow for several days throughout South Korea and many sites were unavailable, including official government websites. According to the information service in South Korea, North Korea was behind the attack. However, for this large-scale attack, computers located in several countries, including Belgium, were involved. These computers
Read More...On January 30th, the New York Times announced that Chinese hackers had infiltrated its own computers for the past four months, following its report published in late October on the business fortune that the family of the Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao has developped. Chinese hackers who attached the New York Times managed to grab e-mails
Read More...Hacking is often a booming activity, every year in January. In Belgium, no less than 170 websites have already been hacked since January 1st 2013, as revealed by Belsec, a blog specialized in Internet security. The site Gezinsbond which represents the league for Flemish families, is on the list of the victims. “We took the
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