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Freedom on the Net 2012 - 26 septembre 2012
Dans son rapport intitulé Freedom on the Net 2012. A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media (La liberté sur Internet en 2012 : une évaluation mondiale d’Internet et des médias numériques), Freedom House a"¦
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Free Speech in the Age of YouTube - 23 septembre 2012
Companies are usually accountable to no one but their shareholders.
Internet companies are a different breed. Because they traffic in speech "” rather than, say, corn syrup or warplanes "” they make decisions every day about what kind of expression is allowed where. And occasionally they come under pressure to (...)
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YouTube under new pressure over anti-Muslim film - 19 septembre 2012
Saudi Arabia has become the latest state to call on YouTube to block access inside the country to anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims.
The government says it will block access to the entire YouTube website if owners Google do not comply.
Google has already rejected a request from the White House to remove the (...)
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Russia Unveils Secure "Almost Android" Tablet To Keep Data Away From Google - 4 septembre 2012
It seems that Russia’s defense ministry has little faith in Google’s operating systems : it has just unveiled its own encrypted version that has the remarkably familiar feel of an Android.
Russia’s very first smart prototype was presented on the sidelines of a Berlin electronics show this week to Deputy Prime (...)
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La Russie crée un clone d’Android pour éviter l’espionnage - 4 septembre 2012
L’Institut Centrale de Recherche Scientifique, sous la dépendance du gouvernement russe, a mis au point un système d’exploitation proche d’Android, qui n’envoie aucune données à des serveurs étrangers. Il sera proposé sur tablettes dès la fin de l’année.
A l’occasion de l’IFA de Berlin, la Russie a révélé qu’elle avait mis (...)
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Google receives 1.5m takedown requests a week - 28 août 2012
The number of requests by rights holders to have content removed from Google has doubled in the last month, according to the search engine’s transparency report.
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), copyright holders have the right to demand that websites take down links which point to content (...)
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Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals - 24 juillet 2012
It’s early February in Cancun, Mexico. A group of 60 or so financial analysts, reporters, diplomats, and cybersecurity specialists shake off the previous night’s tequila and file into a ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. At the front of the room, a giant screen shows a globe targeted by crosshairs. Cancun is in the (...)
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Russian Legislators Approve Greater Government Control Over the Internet and Nonprofits - 19 juillet 2012
Russia’s upper house of Parliament moved to strengthen controls over the Internet and nonprofit organizations on Wednesday, prompting a warning from the United Nations human rights chief that the Kremlin is sliding back into Soviet ways.
A series of initiatives have been introduced as President Vladimir V. Putin (...)
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Le Parlement russe a adopté un texte de loi controversé sur Internet - 13 juillet 2012
La Douma, la chambre basse du Parlement russe, a adopté mercredi 11 juillet des amendements controversés à une loi sur l’internet, provoquant des protestations, nombre d’observateurs redoutant qu’ils ne visent à censurer la Toile en Russie.
Les amendements à la loi sur "la protection des enfants" contre les dangers pour (...)
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Russia adopts stringent internet controls amid censorship concerns - 12 juillet 2012
New act will place Russia behind a ’great firewall’ similar to China’s, critics say
The Russian parliament on Wednesday unanimously adopted a controversial bill that boosts government control over the internet, despite a campaign warning that it will lead to widespread censorship.
The bill must now be signed by (...)
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Wikipedia Russie ferme pour protester contre une loi sur Internet - 10 juillet 2012
Wikipedia a fermé sa version russe mardi 10 juillet pour la journée, et a remplacé sa page d’accueil par son logotype en cyrillique, barré d’un bandeau noir. Un court texte explique que l’encyclopédie participative proteste contre une loi discutée au Parlement russe visant à établir une liste noire de sites Internet. (...)
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Syria Files - 6 juillet 2012
Today, Thursday 5 July 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria Files "“ more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012.
This extraordinary data set derives from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names, including those of (...)
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A Massive Web of Fake Identities and Websites Controlled Flame Malware - 4 juin 2012
The attackers behind the complex Flame cyberespionage toolkit, believed to be a state-sponsored operation, used an extensive list of fake identities to register at least 86 domains, which they used as part of their command-and-control center, according to researchers at Russia-based antivirus firm, Kaspersky Lab. (...)
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Pentagon to expand cybersecurity program for defense contractors - 14 mai 2012
The Pentagon is expanding and making permanent a trial program that teams the government with Internet service providers to protect defense firms’ computer networks against data theft by foreign adversaries.
It is part of a larger effort to broaden the sharing of classified and unclassified cyberthreat data (...)
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Contrefaçon : les États-Unis actualisent leur liste des pays à surveiller - 3 mai 2012
Comme chaque année, les États-Unis viennent de publier leur liste des pays à surveiller s’agissant de la contrefaçon. Le rapport « spécial 301 » (PDF) sur les mesures de protection des droits de propriété intellectuelle a ainsi été dévoilé lundi 30 avril par le département du commerce extérieur américain.
Dans sa « priority (...)
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Entre surveillance et filtrage, la brèche ténue des net-citoyens - 13 mars 2012
Ce rapport, qui dresse la nouvelle liste 2012 des pays "Ennemis d’Internet" et "sous surveillance" , est une actualisation du rapport publié le 12 mars 2011.
Le précédent rapport, publié en mars 2011, soulignait la consécration des réseaux sociaux et du rôle du Web comme outil de mobilisation et de transmission (...)
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’Enemies of the internet’ in Reporters Without Borders study - 13 mars 2012
Bahrain and Belarus have been added to Reporters Without Borders’ annual list of "enemies of the internet".
They join 10 other nations on the campaign group’s register of states that restrict net access, filter content and imprison bloggers.
India and Kazakhstan have also joined RWB’s list of "countries under (...)
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Cyber-censure : la France sous surveillance - 12 mars 2012
Dans le cadre de la Journée mondiale contre la cyber-censure, Reporters Sans Frontières publie son rapport sur les "ennemis d’internet" qui liste la France parmi moins d’une quinzaine de pays sous surveillance, pour la deuxième année consécutive.
Reporters Sans Frontières nous apprend que c’est ce lundi 12 mars 2012 (...)
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Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery - 11 février 2012
When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film.
He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings "loaner" devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute (...)
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Facebook criticised for ’hurting’ cybercrime investigation - 8 février 2012
A major internet security firm has criticised Facebook for identifying the alleged members of the gang behind the Koobface worm, a piece of malicious software designed to hijack users’ computers.
In an unusual step, Facebook last month named six Russian men it said had been running the $2m scam against its members (...)
