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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According to a Symantec study, it is in Africa that cybercrime is most severe. As analysed by Security Affairs, this study shows that it through using smartphones that computer viruses and malware spread the most. “A study conducted in Africa in 2012 showed that the development of smartphones involves the increased use of social networks
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Your internet activity is permanently stored. Photos, videos, email address, posted messages on social networks expose you to everyone for years. Let’s have a look at your e- reputation. You may be a bit surprised … We do not realize how our digital lives is traceable … For all that is published on the Internet
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According to a new document released by Edward Snowden, the former NSA agent, and published on ProPublica website, online games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life are being monitored, since 2008, by American and British intelligence agencies. Indeed, according to the document, terrorist and criminal organizations would be using online games to communicate
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Google policy change now allows this Web giant to use your name, profile picture and comments within its advertisements. Indeed, since November 11th, Google can use your activities – e.g. when you write a review or assign a +1 via Google+ – and use them for its own ads. So, if you give a +1
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The French court has ordered Internet Service Providers (ISPs ) to block streaming sites and search engines to stop their SEO, which is a world first. On November 28th, the Paris court ordered streaming websites offering the distribution of to be blocked by French ISP. This decree also requires specific search engines to stop websites
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McAfee has just unveiled its latest analysis of the main cybercrime trends for the third quarter of 2013 : it shows that cybercriminals have not taken much holiday this summer. “During this summer, we have added 20 million of new samples in the McAfee” zoo”, which now gathers a total of 170 million elements”. We
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Just before the presidential elections in Tajikistan, several websites have been censored in the country, including Youtube and Ozodagon a media website. Tajikistan voters re-elected without surprise President Emomali Rahmon on November 6th, for his fourth term since 1992. To demonstrate how open he is, Rahmon had ensured that the opposition could hardly be heard
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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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For its 10th anniversary, The Pirate Bay, torrent most contested p2p site offered a new web browser meant to bypass censorship in some countries. The download PirateBrowser page refers to countries such as Iran, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Italy. The tool is based on Tor, Firefox Portable Edition and Foxy Proxy is used to
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