Two EU agencies, i.e. Europol and Eurojust were on the track of Blackshades, a malware that lets cybercriminals hijack a remote computer. More than a half-million computers in over 100 countries have been infected by this sophisticated malware. The police and judicial operation lasted indeed for two days, searching for the inventors, users and vendors
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Microsoft has just released as part of its Play It Safe global initiative the results of a study conducted by IDC (International Data Corporation) and the University of Singapore (NUS) which is called “The link between pirated software and security vulnerabilities.” Conducted in 16 countries*, it thus explores the relationship between software piracy and cyber
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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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Can sites used to download movies or music can really be controlled and blocked by ISPs? Recently, the European community allowed European nations’ courts to have Internet service providers to block access to sites which are deemed to allow illegal downloads. Europe has indeed confirmed the role of ISPs and their obligation to close a
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Nations, consumers and businesses are targeted by a lot of malware. A new research finds the link between them and criminal organizations. Nearly 75 % of new purchased computers are infected with dangerous malware. This is what reveals a research conducted jointly by the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, IDC and the National University of Singapore
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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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Of course, you have heard of this SSL Certificates bug called Heartbleed which recently became famous. Discover what this bug is and how to protect yourself from it. What is Heartbleed? This is indeed a secuirity bug in the OpenSSL Protocol in Android that has been recently discovered. It can enable a third party to
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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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The “internet neutrality” has been recognized in a vote by the European Parliament. This law still has to go before the commission before being finally voted, but it would guarantee the neutrality of the Internet. On April 4th, the European Parliament passed a bill in favor of equal access without discrimination to the internet, what
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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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