US 'deeply concerned' about Turkish arrests of lawmakers

The United States said Friday it was "deeply concerned" by the Turkish government's arrest of the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish opposition party and its move to limit the country's access to the internet.

Bulgarian authorities see illegal attempts to destabilize banking system

Bulgarian authorities on Friday saw illegal attempts to destabilize country's banking system amid queues of people trying to withdraw their money from cash desks....

Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev told reporters that there has been an attack through the Internet and text messages via mobile phones to massively disturb people.

"We have found malicious and deliberate attempts to destabilize the banking system, and an investigation has been carried out in this direction since yesterday," Yovchev said.

US indicts China officials over cyber spying. -China refuted the accusation, saying they were "made up".

Five Chinese individuals charged for allegedly hacking into US companies to gain trade secrets....

The United States has indicted five Chinese military officials with cyber espionage charges for allegedly hacking into US companies to gain trade secrets, the Justice Department has said, publicly accusing China of cyber spying for the first time.
The department said on Monday that the hackers targeted US companies in the nuclear power, metals and solar products industries to steal information useful to competitors in China. The charges are the first-of-its-kind against state actors by the US.

Protection of minors in the digital age

In an era of rapid technological change digital media convergence, a major question is whether the existing legislation is sufficient to deal with challenges related to the protection of minors.
The internet and all online platforms are interactive environments rather than passive media as television is. As such, they raise, in a prompt and urgent manner, issues of accessibility to content or types of content that may harm the physical, moral and spiritual development of minors, issues related to specific types of crimes through computers that can be connected with audio-visual content etc.

Obama administration: ‘Cuban Twitter’ discreet, not covert

WASHINGTON D.C.: -The Obama administration denied on Thursday that a secretive program allegedly used to foment unrest and unseat the communist government in Cuba was covert.

The Associated Press revealed the existence of the U.S.-backed social media network, known as ZunZuneo – Cuban slang for a hummingbird’s chirp – in a report on Thursday. The program was run through shell companies and financed using a Cayman Islands bank account, according to the Associated Press’ (AP) investigation.

UN human rights commissioner criticizes Turkey’s Internet law

The Office of the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has criticized Turkey for its controversial Internet law, saying it may lead to breaches of human rights.

A statement released by the OHCHR on Feb. 14 criticized the law, which was allowing Turkey’s telecommunications authority (TİB) to block websites without first seeking a court order. The law was adopted Feb. 6 by Parliament and is currently awaiting President Abdullah Gül’s approval. 

Revelan que EE.UU. espía a todos los mandatarios del mundo.

El exempleado de la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional (NSA) de Estados Unidos (EE.UU.), Wayne Madsen, aseguró en una entrevista ofrecida este sábado que las empresas que brindan servicios de Internet en ese país son presionados por la NSA para espiar a los mandatarios del mundo.

Ante la cadena de noticias PressTV, Madsen sostuvo que “todos los gobernantes de países del mundo que usan Internet o tecnología informática pueden estar seguros de que la Agencia Nacional de Seguridad escucha sus conversaciones”.

El exfuncionario afirmó que empresas como Google y Facebook, trabajan estrechamente con la NSA, y que cualquier otra que se negara a entregar la información solicitada, se convertía en objeto de amenaza de los funcionarios de esta agencia.

Argentina y Chile ganan la pelea por el dominio ".patagonia" en Internet. La marca de ropa estadounidense desistió de seguir adelante con un reclamo para usar esa denominación.

 Chile y Argentina lograron detener el pedido de una empresa textil estadounidense para quedarse con el dominio ".patagonia", en un reclamo ante la Corporación de Internet para la Asignación de Nombres y Números (ICANN), indicó una fuente del gobierno chileno."La empresa textil estadounidense Patagonia Inc., dedicada a la indumentaria deportiva, declinó el 10 de julio insistir en la obtención del dominio '.patagonia', solicitado el año pasado ante la ICANN", señaló un comunicado de la Dirección de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales (Direcon) de la cancillería chilena.