ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

It's difficult to predict what technology topics will confront the president over the next four years, but Internet surveillance and a successor to the Stop Online Piracy Act are likely on the menu.

Read this article by Declan McCullagh on CNET News:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57546170-38/obama-faces-piracy-privacy-tests-in-his-second-term/?tag=nl.e703&s_cid=e703&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Even after the Stuxnet computer worm became public, President Obama accelerated cyberattacks against Iran that had begun in the Bush administration, temporarily disabling 1,000 centrifuges.

Read more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&pagewanted=all

In an excellent piece by David Sanger, the NY Times has confirmed what we all suspected: that the US deployed the Stuxnet worm, a powerful worm that targets very specific machines within Iran's nuclear enrichment program.

Read more:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/01/cyberwar-is-with-us-details-emerge-about-use-of-stuxnet-worm-in-iran/

Much has been said about the role social media has come to play in the global landscape over the last few years.

According to the Washington Post, President Obama will today issue an executive order that gives U.S. officials the ability to impose sanctions on foreign bodies that use these “new technologies” to carry out human rights violations.

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