French mobile users even more affected by cybercrime

While mobile cybercrime keeps on rising, smartphones owners are not careful enough. 41 % of the French smartphone users have been a victim of cybercrime in the past twelve months, compared to only 29% in Europe and 38 % worldwide, according to a Symantec study. While the French are more affected by mobile cybercrime than

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California passed a law to erase one’s digital past

In California, a new law will enable teenagers to remove embarrassing photos or comments they have posted from their personal pages on social networks. California really wants to save the reputation of its e- teens with this called “the gum law” that has been enacted by the Governor of California and will come into force

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Web users want to cover their online moves

According to a new U.S. survey, more and more web users would like to be anonymous online, but still think it is not possible to avoid observation by specific people or organisations. In a survey of 792 American internet users, 86 % said they have taken specific actions to delete or mask their digital footprints:

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Big brother is watching you

 The Internet is a spying world and you can be sure that Big bother is watching you. We are being tracked all the time, from all the different websites we use on a daily basis. Google, facebook and other social media do track all our movements and habits on their pages. The Apple companies also

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Europe launches its European cybercrime center

Cybercriminals targeting Europe are now being spotted by a new European Centre called EC3 , which aims at fighting against cybercrime and was officially opened on January 11th , 2013. The threat of cybercrime goes beyond the borders of individual countries and the European Community has decided to react by creating the European Cybercrime Centre

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Big data & big brother

 The democratization of broadband Internet requires daily discharges of billions of data on the Internet, whether video, images, sounds, text, data…. submitted by individuals, companies and even government agencies. This is what we call the “big data”, a term that implies a bit of marketing but explains a reality: the amount of data sent, received

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China monitoring Skype conversations

Skype is one of the most popular services for chat and phone conversations over the Internet, appealing to 250 million monthly connected users: it is a great way to keep contacts with friends and family but also business contacts based far or even abroad. But in China, people’s phone and chat conversations in Skype can

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Cybercrime keeps on rising in UAE

The UAE, ranked as one of the most highly spammed countries worldwide for the last 2 years will continue to be a target for cybercrime attacks for businesses and individuals in 2013, according to Symantec security company. The UAE experienced a spam rate of 73 % in 2011, and over the past six months, it

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What is a VPN? Why use a VPN service?

What is a VPN or a Virtual Private Network? What are the advantages of using a VPN service or connecting to Internet through a VPN tunnel? The video presentation of Le VPN service explains it all.   SPRING SALEGET 3 YEARS FOR $79.99 GET LE VPN NOW NO LOGS 100+ LOCATIONS P2P ALLOWED Easy To

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