Another NSA scandal is spreading, as some new revelations show that the NSA can keep track of millions of people around the world, by locating their mobile phone. A real Big Brother and omniscient super- power… Since June 2013, when the first revelations were made by the former NSA consultant Edward Snowden, who is now
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Vietnam applies a new decree which shall sanction comments on social media that criticize the government with prison sentence or the equivalent of a $ 4,740 fine – which represents a non- negligible amount in this country. Writers of such comments that what can be considered as criminal offenses shall lead to a prison sentence.
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Microsoft just announced the launch of a center to “boost the global fight against cybercrime.” This new center called the Cybercrime Center recently opened on the campus of Microsoft’s U.S. headquarters. The center “will combine the legal and technical expertise of Microsoft and the existing developed innovative tools and technologies” to fight against viruses, infringement
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A new malware is ramping in Switzerland. It targets the word or excel documents and encrypts them before cybercriminals request for a ransom to make them usable again. Hackers use this new ransomware to abuse internet users. They send a program to deal with files from your computer, then they blackmail the victim, requesting for
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Despite waves of outrage from international media and world leaders, besides the U.S. Congress, a majority of American citizens still approve the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices. Surprisingly enough, they also support the controversial practice of spying on European allies. 51% of the people interviewed through this poll revealed by Techcrunch do think that NSA
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Since last June, the media reported much about the American National Security Agency (NSA) worldwide monitoring program. More than a dozen countries have been affected by this oversight, to varying degrees. Imagine an absolute Internet monitoring system that sneaks into your privacy: your audio and video p2p activities, photos, e- mails, passwords are intercepted and
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Indonesia has become the country hosting the largest number of cyber-attacks in the world, as revealed in a study of Akamai, a company specializing in computer servers. Indonesia now ranks first, ahead of China for the second quarter of 2013. These two countries concentrate nearly 71 % of the world cybercriminals. If Akamai acknowledge the
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The famous NSA – i.e. U.S. intelligence agency – has collected hundreds of millions of digital lists of American contacts, through their emails or instant messaging services, as revealed by The Washington Post , referring to some documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA consultant. For example, during a single day in 2012, the
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The NSA just confirmed to have signed a contract with VuPEN to receive data on IT system vulnerabilities. One might think that the NSA, as VuPEN does as well as many companies specialized in computer security, operated forums, newsletters and private spaces dedicated to cracks to be informed about the latest developments in vulnerabilities. The
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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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