With its new internet law, Brazil seems to stand at the forefront of privacy respect on the internet on a worldwide basis. Last week, this law that was approved by the Brazilian parliament states that Brazilian data stored on servers abroad are within Brazilian juridiction. Brazil “takes the lead in this complex debate” said Ronaldo
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Kaspersky Lab has developed an interactive globe where you can observe in real time all security incidents occurring on our planet. This world map called Cyberthreat Map allows you to check in real time the speed at which some threats are spreading and which countries are the most affected by cybercrime. With a similar presentation
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Can sites used to download movies or music can really be controlled and blocked by ISPs? Recently, the European community allowed European nations’ courts to have Internet service providers to block access to sites which are deemed to allow illegal downloads. Europe has indeed confirmed the role of ISPs and their obligation to close a
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Nations, consumers and businesses are targeted by a lot of malware. A new research finds the link between them and criminal organizations. Nearly 75 % of new purchased computers are infected with dangerous malware. This is what reveals a research conducted jointly by the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, IDC and the National University of Singapore
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Do you like cookies? These lines of code – for example MC2: UID = 7daa554691bd4 f9089dc9d92e5cdadf3 – posted in your browser by the websites you visit that allow advertisers to send you targeted advertisements. Managed by expert companies who file the data, classify, analyze and aggregate them before selling them: they do get your identity,
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A young Canadian hacker has been arrested in Ontario (Canada), after having stolen social insurance numbers, using HeartBleed security bug. He is the first person arrested for stealing data using HeartBleed, this bug that has been much talked about in the media and is estimated by some experts to be “Internet worst nightmare.” An investigation
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Of course, you have heard of this SSL Certificates bug called Heartbleed which recently became famous. Discover what this bug is and how to protect yourself from it. What is Heartbleed? This is indeed a secuirity bug in the OpenSSL Protocol in Android that has been recently discovered. It can enable a third party to
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Ups and downs in Internet censorship by the Turkish authorities… After Twitter and YouTube had been blocked, the Turkish government met with the justice who ordered the authorities to restore access to these two sites. But it did not actually go as planned, as the same court decided to support Youtube been blocked until 15
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The “internet neutrality” has been recognized in a vote by the European Parliament. This law still has to go before the commission before being finally voted, but it would guarantee the neutrality of the Internet. On April 4th, the European Parliament passed a bill in favor of equal access without discrimination to the internet, what
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The Turkish government has ordered on March 27th YouTube platform to be blocked. This occurred just a week after banning the use of Twitter, after the release of pirate records who challenge the regime. And this decision took place just before the municipal elections, on the weekend of March 29th that are crucial to Prime
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