CyberCrime News
A government minister in Azerbaijan announced on Saturday that twenty five government and public Internet resource websites were attacked recently but were up and running again in about two hours. The Minister of Communications and Information Technologies in Azerbaijan, Ali Abbasov, told reporters that 24 of the attacks were carried out using IP addresses in Iran while one was from the Netherlands. Abbasov said that a letter had been sent to the Iranian side giving them...
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The Dutch Minister of Security and Justice, Ivo Opstelten, addressed an audience at the World Forum in the Hague today, 12 January, at the official opening of the new National Cyber Security Center (NCSC). The center will provide cybersecurity expertise and alerts to organizations and agencies. In his speech, Minister Opstelten called for cooperation between the...
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Within cybersecurity circles, talk of smartphone or mobile malware certainly produces a heated debate. To add gasoline to this fire, we can now add the examples of the first “pocket botnet,” a botnet solely or partly made up of smartphones, which could infect PCs. Observers clash on the validity of the idea of pocket botnets, as demonstrated by these articles: Paul Oliveria, who works in technical communications at the security vendor Trend Micro, says his firm’s researchers have seen a Read More...
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To help girls and young women access training, job opportunities and career information in information and communication (ICT) the ITU has today launched a new one-stop shop. Despite ICT being a fast-growth industry the number of young women pursuing a career in technology has been falling in the US since the 1980's, the ITU reports. Back in the 1980's young women, the report continues, were gaining 37 percent of computer science degrees; today, that...
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The European Commission is looking at ways to better integrate e-commerce across Europe according to a communication released today. A separate but related Green Paper was released at the launch a broad consultation process with stakeholders to help identify the barriers to a fully integrated and secure payments market across card, internet and mobile payments in Europe. An EC Read More...
The 10th anniversary of the Budapest Convention received special attention last week at the Octopus Conference (21 - 23 November), part of the Council of Europe's Global Project on Cybercrime.
After ten years the Budapest Convention remains the only accepted international text on how to "protect against and control online crime while at the same time respecting human rights", the Secretary General, Thorbjørn Jagland emphasized in his
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Observations from a Russian viewpoint form the basis of a press release from community partner Group-IB in announcing the co-publication of HostExploit's report for Q4 2011 'Top 50 Bad Hosts & Networks' in both Russian and English languages. HostExploit's regular quarterly report presents levels of malicious activity found on all of the 39,796 currently registered autonomous systems (ASeS) through a series of charts and tables. It also...
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AFNIC, the Registry for the country code top-level domains .fr and .re (France and Reunion Island), announced today that it is sponsoring the 83rd Meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) being held in Paris 25 – 30 March 2012. The IETF is a large open international community consisting of a dozen research and development groups including network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. Its mission is to make the Internet work...
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The WHOIS Policy Review Team has delivered its Draft Report and Recommendations for public comment after more than a year since its task began during which time the Team has engaged in face-to-face meetings, outreach sessions at ICANN meetings and regular fortnightly calls. The full 90 page document, entitled WHOIS Policy Review Team Report and Recommendations, available from the ICANN website, pulls more than a few punches at a WHOIS service, or rather...
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A Russian Viewpoint on HostExploit Q4 2011 Report 'Top 50 Bad Hosts'Observations from a Russian viewpoint form the basis of a press release from...
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