This is a big paradox: the Iranian government recommends the ministers to be on Facebook, while the site remains blocked for the rest of the Iranian people. The initiative comes from the new president Hassan Rouhani who has decided to enable and even encourage his ministers to create their own Facebook page through the Facebook
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If you are keen on being fit, you may be using a health or fitness-tracking app to keep track of your health improvements or check on your jogging or fitness progress. These specific apps are now under scrutiny for privacy issues in a burgeoning health apps market, with a report claiming that 20 of the
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In New Zealand, the Prime Minister just managed to pass a new law that legalizes the communications of its citizens to be monitored. At a time where PRISM and the various U.S. Internet monitoring programs keep on raising much controversy, the New Zealand government just adopted a law allowing its intelligence service called Government Communications
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In 2012, cyberattacks have led to 6% of failures affecting both landline and mobile telephone networks in the European Union, according to a report recently published by the European Agency for Network and Information Security Information (ENISA). This ENISA figure is even more striking, that network disruptions due to cyberattacks have affected more people than
Read More...The Washington Post has revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has committed “thousands” of violations of the laws intended to respect the privacy, since it was given extra powers in 2008. This information is based on the analysis of an internal audit and secret documents provided by Edward Snowden to the daily newspaper.
Read More...McAfee security solutions editor just released a report developed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). After some research led by a group of economists, experts in intellectual property and security researchers, CSIS estimated that at the international level, acts of cybercrime could generate a huge loss of about $ 500 billion per
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The Chinese Internet Center recently announced that the number of Chinese internet users in China rose to 591 million, which implies a 10% increase in one year. Indeed, 40% of the Chinese people use internet in their daily lives. These statistics were published by the China Internet Network Information Center. The Chinese government encourages Internet
Read More...According to the United Nations (UN), the war on the Internet has now become a reality. The UN has urged the international community to further cooperate for a better track down of cybercriminals. The war on the Internet has actually started, as mentioned by the UN members, at an international conference that brought together technology
Read More...These last weeks, all media have been into PRISM, this espionnage program developed by the NSA, the U.S. National Security Agency for the US government to spy on foreigners via Google, Facebook and other tools such as Skype. But the Washington Post has just unveiled another secret NSA program, which should also be much talked
Read More...Cyber-attacks increased in Switzerland in 2012, they are now a key target. That is making the country to rank from the 49th to 47th among the target countries, according to Symantec company which also believes that the Swiss financial center is a prime target. The number of computers becoming zombies after an infection spam rose
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