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Anonymous plans “down” the Internet with massive attack on Saturday

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The digital activism group Anonymous confirmed that on Saturday March 31 will try to “pull down” the Internet, promising that on that day no one can access any Internet site. As published in Pastebin, the goal is to attack 13 servers DNS “roots”, and if successful, would block access to all types of domains, almost [...]

Gmail explains spam

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Gmail offers a new service via caption that explains why some messages are placed in the spam folder. Gmail’s spam filter is one of the features most appreciated by users of the Google email service. To make more transparent the selection of anti-spam, Gmail has added over each spam message in the list contains a [...]

Emails from 8,000 students were exposed by a lending agency

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A clerical error made by Student Finance England exposed the email addresses of about 8,000 students should complete the scholarship application forms. Student Finance England, a subsidiary of Student Loans Company, the agency responsible for providing scholarships, has sent notices to students, along with an attachment that contains the email addresses of all trainees. According [...]

Sony against local censorship on YouTube

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Sony CEO talks about the local censors for copyright: the fault is not the majors, but other companies that deal with managing copyrights. The music industry is deeply divided between those who see the big network a possible threat to the commercial activities of artists and record labels and those who believe that the Web [...]

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Google announces new policy in the privacy

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Google announces the arrival of new terms of use for its services, simplification and integration of new keywords. Changes coming to the policies and terms of use of services of Mountain View: with an announcement on the official blog of the company, Alma Whitten, director of privacy of search giant, has announced the introduction of [...]

Hacking: Top 10 trends of attacks in 2011 and forecast for 2012 threats

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The year 2011 was an historic year for Tunisia, it was very hectic on all fronts: social, political, economic, but in terms of technology, we have not experienced real revolution, though it must note that the technology was one of the major tools used to achieve this change. Technology has helped activists, politicians and all [...]

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Children safety on the internet

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Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nokia, RIM, Samsung and Telefónica are among the 28 media and technology companies that showed interest in establishing measures to make the Internet a safer place for children. The companies made ​​an agreement with the European Commission (EC) in order to initiate actions to make it easier to report on [...]

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European Union unify data protection policy

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Viviane Reding, vice president of the European Union Commission, proposed in a speech at the American Chamber of Commerce, the need to unify the data protection policy of the 27 Member States for data information security because now these laws have been established in each country independently, creating problems for companies and organizations operating several [...]

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Cracker attack on the United Nations

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A server of the United Nations was attacked by a group of activist crackers. It could be the dedicated server in the Program for Development. A group of crackers known as “Team Poison” violated one of the servers in the United Nations and published through the channel Pastebin.com, more than 1000 email addresses, user names [...]

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Lying on the Internet could be a crime in the U.S.

In the U.S., the country of freedom, one of the places where the Internet has become a transforming force in the world, legislators and organizations want to regulate Internet use, as is the case of Stop Online Privacy Act, SOPA, a draft law on copyright in the Internet much more controversial than the already canceled [...]

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