A new malware is ramping in Switzerland. It targets the word or excel documents and encrypts them before cybercriminals request for a ransom to make them usable again. Hackers use this new ransomware to abuse internet users. They send a program to deal with files from your computer, then they blackmail the victim, requesting for
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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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For its 10th anniversary, The Pirate Bay, torrent most contested p2p site offered a new web browser meant to bypass censorship in some countries. The download PirateBrowser page refers to countries such as Iran, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Italy. The tool is based on Tor, Firefox Portable Edition and Foxy Proxy is used to
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In California, a new law will enable teenagers to remove embarrassing photos or comments they have posted from their personal pages on social networks. California really wants to save the reputation of its e- teens with this called “the gum law” that has been enacted by the Governor of California and will come into force
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In France, the center of the High Authority for the dissemination of works and protection of rights on the Internet (Hadopi) still creates much controversy. According to two newspapers Les Echos and Liberation, the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) could take over the responsibilities of the Hadopi, ahead even of a large audiovisual law which should
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Like Google, Facebook is regularly consulted by government and judicial authorities of different countries concerning information about its users. As the social network is keen on showing more transparency, it just released for the first time the number of applications received per country during the first half of 2013. As a result, the United States ranks
Read More...A recent study shows that cybercrime business today has become quite an organised field, with executives, managers and workers who depend on a variety of service providers to keep the illegal operations running. The 2013 Cybercrime Report from Fortinet explains on such arena of criminal organisations either competing with each other to find and hire
Read More...Every day, millions of people connect to Facebook and Twitter, do shopping online or comment on articles on news websites and want to stay anonymous. These activities became quite common but leave traces and the user does not always measure the consequences of this: some personal information, such as the age, address and shopping habits are
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Several months ago, Ramnicu Valcea, a small town of 100,000 people in Romania became the world capital for cybercrime. Hackers specialized in scamming naive Internet customers do make a stand to the police, all over the world. Located in the center of Romania, at the foot of the Carpathians, Ramnicu Valcea took the nickname of
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There are various dangers of public wi-fi access. Maybe you have seen in the media stories of some people whose personal data have been misused on the Internet: their life have been destroyed by some malicious people using their data on Facebook or other social networks. A TV show by French TV network France 2
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