The European law on personal data invalidated

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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Brazil: a bill to be passed on internet privacy

In Brazil, users welcomed a new law that should be passed to regulate internet and ensure confidentiality to users. This Constitution for internet called “Civil Framework” aims at enabling a free and open network. “While in some countries, some laws that criminalize behavior have been passed, this one sets the rights and guarantees freedom on

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U.S. will officially create a cyber-army

NSA new boss, Michael S. Rogers, just announced to the Senate that the country would set up an official cyber- army : it will then cooperate with its air, land and sea counterparts. Admiral Rogers will thus be the head of the U.S. Cyber Command. He did not give further details indeed on this cyber-

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RSF speaks out about the enemies of internet

During the International Day against Cyber ​​Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) spoke about its updated list of “enemies of Internet”: the RSF points out the methods of some countries, for their internet surveillance and censorship, although they are said to be democratic countries. RSF has identified 31 institutions that it considers to act as “enemies

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Google’s point on new technologies

A major conference festival dedicated to the “New Digital Age” happened last week in US in Austin (Texas). This time was an opportunity to hear Eric Schmidt, Google CEO between 2001 and 2011, and Jared Cohen with whom he cooperated to write a book of the same name – to comment on the development of

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FBI prepares an interactive malware analysis system

The federal agency shall launch this year its “Malware Investigator”, an interactive malware analysis system. It shall allow companies and individuals to better cope with cyber-attacks. James Comey, who has been recently appointed as the new FBI director, announced that the agency was working on a system analyzing malicious software that would be implemented by

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A day of action against the NSA in the U.S.

American people held on February 11th a day of protest to show their opposition to the permanent and pernicious surveillance set up by their government and the NSA: it is called The Day We Fight Back. This action was initially launched by the group Demand Progress which fights against Internet censorship. This also brought together

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Venezuela shuts off the Internet

While being in a deep political crisis, the Venezuelan government has begun to implement a stronger cybercensorship, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This censorship would apply particularly in areas where the fights between the rebel students and the police are more violent. In a country where the media are controlled by the authorities ,

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Cybersecurity: 10 threats to monitor in 2014

The overall cost of cyberattacks for businesses in 2013 is estimated to € 300 billion. Here are the 10 key trends in cybersecurity and cybercrime that rose in 2013 and should be closely monitored in 2014. – Governements’ art of espionage A U.S. IT security publisher report in 2013 has lifted the veil on cyber-espionage

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Google to remove research censorship warnings in China

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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