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Prison Sentences for Hacking and Cyber Crime Are Set to Rise Across Europe
Jul 8, 2013Prison sentences for hacking and cyber crime are set to rise across Europe if a new draft directive becomes law, as the EU looks to combat cyber espionage and cyber attacks against critical national infrastructure. A draft directive set ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Security Researchers Collaborated to Take Down Grum
Dec 26, 2012Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world's third-largest botnet of hijacked computers. The Grum botnet is believed to have been responsible for around 18% of global spam, or 18 billion spam messages a day. ...
Tags: Security Researchers, Grum, hijacked computers, global spam, spam messages
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Disruption Is The Best Way of Tackling Botnet-Based Cybercrime
Dec 18, 2012Disruption is the best way of tackling botnet-based cybercrime, according to Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU). Taking down the Waledac botnet of hijacked computers in February 2010 was a proof-of-concept strategy that Microsoft and ...
Tags: Disruption, cybercrime, Microsoft, DCU
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Authorities Arrested a Total of 10 People Suspected of Stealing Personal Information
Dec 13, 2012Authorities in several countries have arrested a total of 10 people suspected of setting up a botnet of hijacked computers to steal personal information from millions of victims. The arrests were made in the UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
Tags: Authorities, Arrest, Thieves