The Dutch justice is to allow two Internet service providers not to block access to P2P website The Pirate Bay . “The Ziggo and XS4All providers cannot be forced to block The Pirate Bay,” said the Court of Appeal of The Hague in a statement: “the Court proceeded on the basis that such a large
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China is a difficult market for Google: the Web giant has been fighting for many years with the government over Internet censorship and freedom. Google search engine based in Hong Kong will completely remove warnings sent to users. Until now, even though the web giant was not able to circumvent censorship that restricts access to
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Cyberattacks are increasing, via internet scams are becoming more sophisticated as criminals are refining their attacks like true professionals : Cybercrime has never been so heavy and menacing , while specialists are struggling to determine its extent. “Cybercrime statistics are not operating. Sometimes you multiply these numbers by ten, because people are not aware of
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The Chinese government has confirmed the adoption of a new law that requires all Internet users in the country to use their real names when posting videos on the Internet. China seems a bit tired of tracking internet users criticizing the regime and has therefore introduced a radical step in putting an end to the
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A bill to specify measures linked with geolocation in France is being brought to the French Senate. This text includes several measures concerning methods of locating people when investigating a criminal nature. This bill will follow a specific procedure: the text will not suffer a single reading (followed by a vote) in each assembly, i.e.
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Cybercrime could lead to 3,000 billion by 2020, if companies and governments do not put in place measures in a short time, according to a report by the World Economic Forum. Threats posed by cybercrime could also significantly slow down technological advances over the next decade, says the authors of this study, conducted in partnership
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Cybercrime is gaining ground in the real world with same approaches being used by cybercriminals and traditional criminals as well. We also note that more and more cases of crime involving the use of digital media, “says the French security information Club ( CLUSIF ) in its 2013 Panorama. According to Eric Freyssinet, Head of
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The office of the privacy commissioner confirmed that Google searches about a medical device resulted in a user being “followed” by health-related ads on unrelated websites. Canadian deplored so-called “behavioral” ads based on web browsing history. While they are not illegal, a law concerning the protection of personal information in the private sector in Canada does
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In the United States, a court just ruled unconstitutional a law dating back from 2010 that requires “internet neutrality” from ISPs: this law aims indeed at prohibiting ISP to push online services more than others. The court thus held that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had no authority to require companies to enforce such a
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Ransomware is a trendy tool used by cybercriminals: this malicious software, once infiltrated in your computer, encrypts some part of your computer hard drive and requests in exchange a ransom to regain access to your stolen data. These cybercriminal programs keep on spreading even though they have been in use for long. In the second
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