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<p>New page: Virus without an effective medicine yet The cyber crimes against internet banking and e-commerce where the access to credit cards numbers are increasing. The criminal networks are able to...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Virus without an effective medicine yet<br /> <br /> The cyber crimes against internet banking and e-commerce where the access to credit cards numbers are increasing. The criminal networks are able to access your computer, turn it into a zombie and use it as a bridge to make a fraud against another consumer. In Portugal, according to the Judiciary Police, mode than 2 million Euros was robbed in the last year through cyber crime. The Project Nonius, supported by researches from the Coimbra University’s Science &amp; Technology College, concluded that we are facing serious risks on the Internet usage within Portugal.<br /> <br /> <br /> Looking to find solutions to the computer vulnerabilities, a summit with IT Security specialists from several countries were concluded yesterday at Albufeira. Dinis Cruz, board member of OWASP - Open Web Application Security Project - said to Correio da Manhã that ‘the tools discussed during this meeting were created to defend computers against these threats and are available to anyone from the OWASP web site”<br /> <br /> <br /> However, according to Carlos Serrão, professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, the fight against cybercrime “requires a permanent update on how to treat the vulnerabilities”.</div>

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