A day of action against the NSA in the U.S.

American people held on February 11th a day of protest to show their opposition to the permanent and pernicious surveillance set up by their government and the NSA: it is called The Day We Fight Back. This action was initially launched by the group Demand Progress which fights against Internet censorship. This also brought together

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Venezuela shuts off the Internet

While being in a deep political crisis, the Venezuelan government has begun to implement a stronger cybercensorship, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This censorship would apply particularly in areas where the fights between the rebel students and the police are more violent. In a country where the media are controlled by the authorities ,

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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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How to Watch the Olympics live with Le VPN

Sochi Olympic Games will begin in just a few days, it’s a great 2-week sporting event where all winter sports disciplines will be presented. This is also a media momentum, for those who will have the chance to follow the thousands of hours of programs offered by the big TV channels … from the opening

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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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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 NSA is working on a quantum computer

The NSA is aiming at creating a “quantum computer” that can decipher any encrypted data, according to the Washington Post, referring to some documents disclosed by the former Edward Snowden consultant. As part of a US$ 80 million research program, called “Penetrating Hard Targets “, the NSA has launched some research to develop a machine

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NSA would also monitor online games

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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European Council and Microsoft fighting cybercrime together

The European Council and Microsoft have just signed an agreement concerning their cooperation in the new Cybercrime @ Octopus Microsoft Project. This project, which will start on January 1st 2014, aims to help countries around the world to implement the European Council Convention on Cybercrime and strengthen data protection and safeguards of the rule of

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McAfee evaluation of cybercrime in Q3 2013

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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