Mark Zuckerberg himself made the announcement during a meeting with almost 2,000 developers and journalists in San Francisco on April 30th. Facebook is to introduce new advertising tools and to boost the privacy of its members to impose the leading social network with 1.28 billion members in the growing sector of smartphone applications. Facebook wants
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With its new internet law, Brazil seems to stand at the forefront of privacy respect on the internet on a worldwide basis. Last week, this law that was approved by the Brazilian parliament states that Brazilian data stored on servers abroad are within Brazilian juridiction. Brazil “takes the lead in this complex debate” said Ronaldo
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Kaspersky Lab has developed an interactive globe where you can observe in real time all security incidents occurring on our planet. This world map called Cyberthreat Map allows you to check in real time the speed at which some threats are spreading and which countries are the most affected by cybercrime. With a similar presentation
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Can sites used to download movies or music can really be controlled and blocked by ISPs? Recently, the European community allowed European nations’ courts to have Internet service providers to block access to sites which are deemed to allow illegal downloads. Europe has indeed confirmed the role of ISPs and their obligation to close a
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Do you like cookies? These lines of code – for example MC2: UID = 7daa554691bd4 f9089dc9d92e5cdadf3 – posted in your browser by the websites you visit that allow advertisers to send you targeted advertisements. Managed by expert companies who file the data, classify, analyze and aggregate them before selling them: they do get your identity,
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Kaspersky Lab’s latest report “Financial Cyber Threats in 2013” refers to cybercrime affecting this virtual currency. According to the “Financial Cyber Threats in 2013” conducted by Kaspersky Lab, malware targeting Bitcoin were quite frequent in 2013. The number of attacks against the crypto- currency has actually increased by more than 2.5 to achieve 8.3 million
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The cancellation of the European law that requires the retention of communication data, i.e. telephone and email data for at least 6 months brings trouble into the European Union. Leaders in the fight against cybercrime and terrorism who were happy about it are now quite concerned. On April 8th, EU Court of Justice canceled the
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Ups and downs in Internet censorship by the Turkish authorities… After Twitter and YouTube had been blocked, the Turkish government met with the justice who ordered the authorities to restore access to these two sites. But it did not actually go as planned, as the same court decided to support Youtube been blocked until 15
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The “internet neutrality” has been recognized in a vote by the European Parliament. This law still has to go before the commission before being finally voted, but it would guarantee the neutrality of the Internet. On April 4th, the European Parliament passed a bill in favor of equal access without discrimination to the internet, what
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The Turkish authorities have just decided to stop blocking Twitter, after growing international protests that have occurred since March 20th. On April 3rd, as as announced the Telecommunications Authority (TIB), the Turkish government decided to unblock the microblogging site that had become illegal two weeks before after publications mentioning corruption allegations targeting Prime Minister Recep
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