Just before the presidential elections in Tajikistan, several websites have been censored in the country, including Youtube and Ozodagon a media website. Tajikistan voters re-elected without surprise President Emomali Rahmon on November 6th, for his fourth term since 1992. To demonstrate how open he is, Rahmon had ensured that the opposition could hardly be heard
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Despite waves of outrage from international media and world leaders, besides the U.S. Congress, a majority of American citizens still approve the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices. Surprisingly enough, they also support the controversial practice of spying on European allies. 51% of the people interviewed through this poll revealed by Techcrunch do think that NSA
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According to HP, the cost of cybercrime has increased by 78% in four years and in the same, the time required to respond to attacks has more than doubled. Moreover, attacks are getting much more frequent. Developed by the Ponemon Institute for HP, the 2013 edition of the Cost of Cybercrime study shows that cybercrime
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The censorship of the incident that happened on October 29th in the famous Tiananmen Square demonstrates the continued commitment of China to eliminate any challenge. But how does China manages to control internet and social networks? … The vehicle that drove into the crowd on Monday 29th and was set into fire under Mao’s portrait
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Since last June, the media reported much about the American National Security Agency (NSA) worldwide monitoring program. More than a dozen countries have been affected by this oversight, to varying degrees. Imagine an absolute Internet monitoring system that sneaks into your privacy: your audio and video p2p activities, photos, e- mails, passwords are intercepted and
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With 1.2 billion users, Mark Zuckerberg’ social network is the most used web network in the world. However, it is still not available in many countries. Some governments block it, want to control the information or to use pure censorship … Here is a list of countries that block or censor Facebook. Bangladesh Internet and
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For its 10th anniversary, The Pirate Bay, torrent most contested p2p site offered a new web browser meant to bypass censorship in some countries. The download PirateBrowser page refers to countries such as Iran, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Italy. The tool is based on Tor, Firefox Portable Edition and Foxy Proxy is used to
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Indonesia has become the country hosting the largest number of cyber-attacks in the world, as revealed in a study of Akamai, a company specializing in computer servers. Indonesia now ranks first, ahead of China for the second quarter of 2013. These two countries concentrate nearly 71 % of the world cybercriminals. If Akamai acknowledge the
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France has also been targeted by the U.S. intelligence. According to Le Monde investigations, the National Security Agency (NSA) has intercepted French citizens’ telephone communications on a massive scale. The documents released in June by Edward Snowden, the former consultant of the agency, describe the techniques used to illegally capture French secrets or privacy details.
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PureVPN, one of the VPN providers, went through a severe hacking attack on October 4th. Cybercriminals breached into PureVPN content management system WHMCS, where all the clients’ information are stored. This actually happened during the WHMCS system upgrade, at a time offering some a vulnerability hole in the accounts of some clients who did not
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