Bitcoin gets popular but risky according to Kaspersky Lab

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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TLS HeartBleed Recommendations – message from Le VPN CEO

In light of recent events concerning the newly discovered vulnerability in OpenSSL, we want to bring your attention to a few things. First, we have thoroughly audited our network and infrastructure and can confirm that none of the Le VPN servers or infrastructure is vulnerable to the new OpenSSL HeartBleed bug. It is and always

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Turkey unblocks Twitter

The Turkish authorities have just decided to stop blocking Twitter, after growing international protests that have occurred since March 20th. On April 3rd, as as announced the Telecommunications Authority (TIB), the Turkish government decided to unblock the microblogging site that had become illegal two weeks before after publications mentioning corruption allegations targeting Prime Minister Recep

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Brazil: a bill to be passed on internet privacy

In Brazil, users welcomed a new law that should be passed to regulate internet and ensure confidentiality to users. This Constitution for internet called “Civil Framework” aims at enabling a free and open network. “While in some countries, some laws that criminalize behavior have been passed, this one sets the rights and guarantees freedom on

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Orange gives its data to French secret service

Orange is a major player in the French surveillance system. This has just been revealed by an internal document of the British secret service (GCHQ). Indeed, in this note, it is said that the French secret service (DGSE) has worked closely with “a French telecommunications operator.” But the description of the telecom company specific skills,

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Do you know about cryptolockers?

In former Soviet Union countries, many IT young experts who barely make a living are approached by criminal networks. They are been offered to enter a poorly protected computer network or to steal 300 million euros in subcontractors banks networks, that are poorly secured in Bangladesh or India. “It’s scary, but perhaps less than what

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Ukraine, a key target for a powerful virus

A devastating malware has been recently mainly targeting computers based in Ukraine. Since 2013, i.e. the beginning of the political crisis in Ukraine, it is not less than 22 cases of the virus that have been identified, according to a recent report released by the British group BAE Systems. This virus called snake is “one

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Google’s point on new technologies

A major conference festival dedicated to the “New Digital Age” happened last week in US in Austin (Texas). This time was an opportunity to hear Eric Schmidt, Google CEO between 2001 and 2011, and Jared Cohen with whom he cooperated to write a book of the same name – to comment on the development of

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One cyber-attack occurs every 1.5 second in the world

FireEye released its report on advanced threats (ATR), which covers the main malicious activities identified by the FireEye Security Platform in 2013. This report highlights the very rapid growth of cybercrime globally, with 206 countries hosting servers carrying malware. The study analyzed and compared about the 40,000 unique cyber-attacks that took place in 2013, which

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FBI prepares an interactive malware analysis system

The federal agency shall launch this year its “Malware Investigator”, an interactive malware analysis system. It shall allow companies and individuals to better cope with cyber-attacks. James Comey, who has been recently appointed as the new FBI director, announced that the agency was working on a system analyzing malicious software that would be implemented by

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