Tag archive: Cyprus

It’s a major discovery, a cyber spy network that’s infected 1,295 computers in 103 countries, according to the Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which is made up of researchers from Ottawa-based think tank SecDev Group and the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies. That might not seem like a lot of computers, but those machines are in foreign ministries and embassies. The discovery occurred after… Read More

The European Commission is taking steps to change the termination fees, which are the amounts mobile operators charge each other to use their networks. The plan is that by 2011 those figures will be harmonized across Europe, as opposed to the national fees currently enacted – currently 27 different ones. The belief is that this will result in lower call costs for consumers. These termination fees are nine times higher for… Read More

The countries of the European Union are in disarray. Not politically, but in the way they rate games. According to a new survey showing how Pan European GameInformation (Pegi) is used across the continent, only two countries – Germany and Lithuania – have laws about the way games are sold. 15 others ban harmful games being sold to minors,one has broader laws, and four – Cyprus, Romania, Slovenia and Luxembourg – actually… Read More

According to Facebook’s security chief, it was in January that the company first noticed a rise in hack attacks and realized they’d become a majortarget. Among them were phishing attacks on members taking the form e-mails that purport to be from Facebook. There had even been unsuccessful data harvesting attempts.   One recent attack wastraced to a Seattle hosting service, he told an audience at the Infosecurity Europe… Read More

Buying your prescriptions – or even those little blue pills – online might seem a way to save money, but it can have its problem. A San Diego federal grand jury has indicted 18 people with several charges, a total of 313 counts ranging from racketeering to conspiracy to dispense and dispensing of misbranded drugs with the intent to defraud and mislead. If convicted, they face anywhere between three and 20 years in jail, along with… Read More