Cybercrime is booming, with data hacking, identity theft and other malicious practices that continue to be practiced worldwide. Our digital lifestyle generates an impressive amount of information 2.5 trillion bytes of data each day. This figure reflects the growing number of computers, sensors and screens that surround us. The era of “surround computing” improves our
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Passwords play a crucial role in helping us to protect our privacy, but … are they as secure as they should be? And are there other ways for reinforced security ? In our society, based on property, privacy and confidentiality , it is crucial to be able to identify oneself safely . The key you
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Indonesia has become the country hosting the largest number of cyber-attacks in the world, as revealed in a study of Akamai, a company specializing in computer servers. Indonesia now ranks first, ahead of China for the second quarter of 2013. These two countries concentrate nearly 71 % of the world cybercriminals. If Akamai acknowledge the
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The booming use of smartphones and mobile tablets make these tools to be very vulnerable to cybercriminals attacks who keep on refining their techniques. Users are just not aware of the risks, and technologies are yet unsuited to fight those attacks. “Today a smartphone is more like a computer than a phone, its basic use
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After Facebook, Google has also changed its regulations for customers so as to use users’ data for advertising purposes. On September 5th, Facebook changed its terms of use – for the moment only in the U.S. – so as to keep the right to use your profile photo for its ads. This section (Section 10,
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The whole team of Le VPN is pleased to present you the new Le VPN website. It is now more interactive, with lots of content and videos offering complete information on how to secure your Internet connection, wherever you are in the world. In the information section, you’ll find everything you ever wanted to know
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While mobile cybercrime keeps on rising, smartphones owners are not careful enough. 41 % of the French smartphone users have been a victim of cybercrime in the past twelve months, compared to only 29% in Europe and 38 % worldwide, according to a Symantec study. While the French are more affected by mobile cybercrime than
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Alcatel-Lucent said there had been a recent “strong growth” of malware and cybercriminals targeting smartphones and broadband devices. This increase is parallel to the number of tablets and/or smartphones users worldwide. KindSight, one of Alcatel-Lucent subsidiaries just released a safety report for the second quarter of 2013. It thus provides the top 20 security threats
Read More...According to the U.S. firm Juniper, malware targeting Internet phones have experienced a phenomenal increase, the attacks on smartphones have increased by 614% between March 2012 and March 2013. According to the same study developed by Juniper, a company based in the Californian Silicon Valley published on June 26th, Google Android operating system could be
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According to a study conducted in France by Norton, mobile phones are playing an increasingly important role in our lives, but users are not so careful with their mobile devices. 33% of French users have reported not being able to be away from their phone, especially their smartphone, which allows them to retrieve information but
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