Mark Zuckerberg himself made the announcement during a meeting with almost 2,000 developers and journalists in San Francisco on April 30th. Facebook is to introduce new advertising tools and to boost the privacy of its members to impose the leading social network with 1.28 billion members in the growing sector of smartphone applications. Facebook wants
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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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A bill to specify measures linked with geolocation in France is being brought to the French Senate. This text includes several measures concerning methods of locating people when investigating a criminal nature. This bill will follow a specific procedure: the text will not suffer a single reading (followed by a vote) in each assembly, i.e.
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Cybercrime could lead to 3,000 billion by 2020, if companies and governments do not put in place measures in a short time, according to a report by the World Economic Forum. Threats posed by cybercrime could also significantly slow down technological advances over the next decade, says the authors of this study, conducted in partnership
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Cybercrime is gaining ground in the real world with same approaches being used by cybercriminals and traditional criminals as well. We also note that more and more cases of crime involving the use of digital media, “says the French security information Club ( CLUSIF ) in its 2013 Panorama. According to Eric Freyssinet, Head of
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More and more internet users are online shoppers, especially during the holiday season. This is a a great opportunity for cybercriminals who are always looking for ways to scam Internet users and smartphone users. Below are some of the tricks used by hackers. No Christmas break for cybercriminals! Indeed, they specifically use this time to
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Your internet activity is permanently stored. Photos, videos, email address, posted messages on social networks expose you to everyone for years. Let’s have a look at your e- reputation. You may be a bit surprised … We do not realize how our digital lives is traceable … For all that is published on the Internet
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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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Vietnam applies a new decree which shall sanction comments on social media that criticize the government with prison sentence or the equivalent of a $ 4,740 fine – which represents a non- negligible amount in this country. Writers of such comments that what can be considered as criminal offenses shall lead to a prison sentence.
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McAfee has just unveiled its latest analysis of the main cybercrime trends for the third quarter of 2013 : it shows that cybercriminals have not taken much holiday this summer. “During this summer, we have added 20 million of new samples in the McAfee” zoo”, which now gathers a total of 170 million elements”. We
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