Tag: france
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Conference review: Botconf 2017
Since its first edition in 2013 , the Virus Bulletin team have been big fans of Botconf , the botnet fighting conference held every year in France. This year, Virus Bulletin sent team members Adrian Luca and Ionuț Răileanu to the event, which took place in the Mediterranean city of Montpellier. There appears to have been…
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Conference review: Botconf 2017
Since its first edition in 2013 , the Virus Bulletin team have been big fans of Botconf , the botnet fighting conference held every year in France. This year, Virus Bulletin sent team members Adrian Luca and Ionuț Răileanu to the event, which took place in the Mediterranean city of Montpellier. There appears to have been…
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Sarkozy bank account raided by cybercrooks
Hackers steal from French president – phish suspected. French president Nicolas Sarkozy has had his funds stolen from his bank account, apparently after a phishing email tricked him into handing over access codes, according to reports. The raid only lifted ‘small amounts’ from the account, and due to the widespread fame Sarkozy has picked up…
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New spam-fighting system for France
Junk mail blacklisting project goes live. A group of public bodies and private companies have joined forces to implement a new system allowing French email users to report spam email to a centralised system for evaluation and blacklisting. The project, Signal Spam , also provides data to ISPs hosting spamming systems and opt-out information for…