A major conference festival dedicated to the “New Digital Age” happened last week in US in Austin (Texas). This time was an opportunity to hear Eric Schmidt, Google CEO between 2001 and 2011, and Jared Cohen with whom he cooperated to write a book of the same name – to comment on the development of
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FireEye released its report on advanced threats (ATR), which covers the main malicious activities identified by the FireEye Security Platform in 2013. This report highlights the very rapid growth of cybercrime globally, with 206 countries hosting servers carrying malware. The study analyzed and compared about the 40,000 unique cyber-attacks that took place in 2013, which
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Cyberattacks 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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The BBC will be offering six simultaneous live streams for you not to miss any of your favorite Winter Olympics Sports. A chance to enjoy the Sochi Games without limits! But… you have to be based in the UK to watch the BBC stream and to enjoy a full coverage of the Winter Olympics Games.
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Cybercrime is gaining ground in the real world with same approaches being used by cybercriminals and traditional criminals as well. We also note that more and more cases of crime involving the use of digital media, “says the French security information Club ( CLUSIF ) in its 2013 Panorama. According to Eric Freyssinet, Head of
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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 Turkish government has introduced in Parliament a bill that requires a very strict control on the internet. This requires the authorization of internet used activities’ surveillance or blocking specific keywords. This text should allow the government authority in charge of telecommunications to restrict access to video sharing sites, but also to retain for two
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On January 8th, Greatfire.org website announced that the British newspaper The Guardian website was inaccessible in China since January 6th. Access to the British newspaper, The Guardian website is blocked in China for unknown reasons, according to the newspaper. “We are concerned that theguardian.com has been blocked in China. The reasons for this are still
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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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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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