Cybercrime, a difficult threat to assess

Cyber​​attacks 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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What is the web giants’ responsibility in the NSA scandal?

Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Apple … want to regain their users’ trust and have recently published the number of applications filed by the NSA, a first since Edward Snowden revelations. This comes after U.S. authorities, a week earlier, as desired President Obama, have allowed these companies to disclose more information about monitoring their users by

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A bill on geolocation in France

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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Chinese Internet went down

Last week, China suffered a major Internet outage for several hours. Experts question whether it could be due to some hacking or technical problem in the censorship system. On January 21st, more than two-third of Chinese websites were inaccessible and therefore millions of users have been deprived of internet for about 8 hours, according on

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Cybercrime can lead to US$ 3000 billion loss by 2020

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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Google broke the Canadian privacy law

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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The Pirate Bay looking for more innovation

After launching the Pirate Browser, The Pirate Bay wishes to introduce another original way to bypass censorship on the web as well as server failures. In 2013, we already talked about the Pirate Browser web browser, introduced by The Pirate Bay. According to Torrent Freak, this dedicated to those who face various forms of web

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Beware of hackers during holiday season!

More and more internet users are online shoppers, especially during the holiday season. This is a a great opportunity for cybercriminals who are always looking for ways to scam Internet users and smartphone users. Below are some of the tricks used by hackers. No Christmas break for cybercriminals! Indeed, they specifically use this time to

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The French “Big brother” law has been passed

The military program law (LPM) has just been officially published on December 19th after being accepted by the Senate. This limits actions from the opponents to the law, including MPs who challenge one of this law articles that provides broader access to internet data by the public authorities. “This article raised much concerns among the

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France: the CNIL stands against cookies

The National Commission on Informatics and Liberties ( CNIL) confirms that websites and advertising agencies should get the webuser’s approval before storing cookies on computers . This is a further step towards a less intrusive internet navigation. The CNIL has issued a “recommendation” that limits the use of cookies, this sort of invisible software that

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