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advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org reported that Social network users in Ecuador could risk prosecution for crimes of libel and slander under criminal law reforms that will be brought before to the National Assembly in the coming days. Authored by Alexis Mera, the legal presidential secretary and driving force behind the proposal, such offenses could be punishable by two years in prison. “I have proposed to regulate all slander processes on social networks because these networks cannot be an instrument of impunity. I have asked the Bureau of Justice to make a special procedure in the instance of libel on Twitter or Facebook because now libel against a person that has 1000 followers may be faster and do more damage,” said Mera [es] at the end of August. Read Article
softpedia.com rpoerted that Hackers from Ecuador have breached and defaced the official website of the government of the province of Azuay (azuay.gob.ec). The hacktivists are protesting against the killing of Andean condors, a protected species in Ecuador. On the defaced page, the hackers have published a picture of a man holding a dead condor, along […]
In 2012, the Wall Street Journal and Citi announced their finalists for the most innovative “City of the Year” contest: New York, Tel Aviv, and a surprising third selection, Medellin, Colombia. The city of Medellin, which Time Magazine 20 years ago referred to as the “coke capital of the world” and 10 years ago had […]
washingtonpost.com reported that the communications revolution that swept the globe missed the Zapotec village of Talea de Castro high in the mountains of southern Mexico, where making any sort of call meant trudging to a community telephone line and paying what could be a day’s wages for a crackly five-minute conversation. All that has changed, […]
Have you thought of living in Ecuador? Read this book bbc.co.uk reported that Some of the striking landscapes of Ecuador’s Galapagos islands can now be explored online on Google Street View. The launch marks the 178th anniversary of the British scientist Charles Darwin’s visit, which inspired his theory of natural selection. The high-definition 360 degrees […]
laprensasa.com reported that the Russian social-networking Web site VK aims to displace Facebook as the Peruvians’ favorite in the medium term as a first step toward establishing its presence throughout the Latin American market, its representatives said. In a statement on the elcomercio.pe portal, the corporate vice president of VK, Ilya Perekopsky, said that to […]
Ecuador’s National Telecommunications Council (Conatel) and the country’s Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society (MINTEL) on 29 August 2013 approved a resolution on regulatory reform for underground fixed network infrastructure. The adopted resolution introduces a process to amend several regulations governing the provision of telecoms services, via public hearings, with the twin aims of encouraging […]
Rapidtvnews.com reported that Ecuador’s telecom situation has radically changed during the past few years, and the country is seeing an explosion of Internet access points and mobile lines. According to Supertel, Ecuador’s telecom authority, Internet users have grown 37% from last year. Thinking of Moving to Ecuador? Read This Book The March 2013 figures show […]
ANDES.info.ec reported The cable will be implemented by the company Telconet in coordination with the national government. Photo: Telconet Quito, 09 Aug (Andes). – Ecuador implement a 7,000 km submarine cable will improve in 160 times the capacity of the Internet to consume throughout Ecuador, which will enable the speed in terms of telecommunications services […]
Cuba will begin offering broader Internet access next month through 118 outlets around the country, according to a decree in the government’s Official Gazette on Tuesday, in a step long awaited by many Cubans. Read Article
Through a video, the hacker group demanded the resignation of Secretary of Energy for the project Alto Maipo. The internet activist group, Anonymous announced this afternoon attack the Government of Chile, if not stop the project Alto Maipo. “R ealizaremos a computer attack against Chile on Monday April 22. (…) The Government of Chile has […]
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Riobamba Mayor Juan Salazar, said yesterday the theft of $ 13’308 .000 Cabildo’s account at the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE). That money was transferred to accounts of 31 individuals and companies in the country, he added. According to Salazar, the more than $ 13 million were stolen from the account of the municipality by […]
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The telecommunications company, Water and Sewerage, STAGE, implements capable equipment failures that occur in the Internet service, for which it has allocated a budget of $ 2.5 million, said Flavio Rodriguez, manager in charge of Telecommunications. Read Article.
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Mexico City: Ministry of Public Security Forms Cyber-Crimes Task Force Mexican newspaper Proceso reported that the Ministry of Public Security (SSPDF) in Mexico City has recently formed a cyber-crimes task force to combat human trafficking, child pornography and internet fraud. The main purpose of the taskforce will be to combat criminals using the internet as […]
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The country’s authorities Bolivarian ela clarified that account is false and confirmed that the current President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela Manager does not even have an account on Twitter. According to information found in the social network, the fake account @ Madurnicolas and appears in his description reads “President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela”. It […]
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Diariovea.com.ve website reported during the afternoon of March 4, 2013 its website was hacked by enemies of the Bolivarian revolution, our website where information was released with the supposed death of Commander Hugo Chavez. The website states the report was totally false, and categorically denies the information …… Read Article
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Again hackers involved the ministry website of Justice of Chile. Shortly before midnight on Monday, on the page read: “That happens to mess with us, nothing personal,” under a cartoon called “Feel like a Sir”, a popular meme of social networking sites. This would be LulzSec, the same hacker who spoke of Peruvian page Justice […]
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greenleft.org.au reported that WikiLeaks has published over 40,000 secret documents regarding Venezuela, which show the clear hand of US imperialism in efforts to topple popular and democratically elected leader Hugo Chavez. The documents, which date from July 2004 to December 2011 and which were published through WikiLeaks twitter account @wikileaks and which are now available […]
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Bananaleaks.com reported that on January 28, 2013, it was knocked offline by a terrorist cyber attack. While the site was restored and it was then again attacked. They established a new site at bananaleaks.co. and claim most of their original reporting material was also placed back online. They allege that their Twitter account was also […]
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According to the latest visual networking index made by the company Cisco, mobile data traffic will grow nine times in Chile by 2017, reaching 29 000 exabytes per month for that year. An increase that must in part to continued strong growth in the number of mobile internet connections is expected to exceed the number […]
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Eluniverso.com reported……………Did you know that when you send an email from Latin America is likely to pass a fort in Miami before continuing on to their final destination? The NAP, unlike other data processing centers, its main function is to rent the equipment to third parties in its own physical space for them to share […]
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Clarin.com reported that a private report, prices are higher than in other Latin American countries. The obstacles to imports more expensive equipment and limited their range. And they pay higher taxes. According to a private report, prices are higher than in other Latin American countries. The obstacles to imports more expensive equipment and limited their […]
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On January 20, 2013, O Globo reported that police arrested a gang of middle-class university students responsible for the diversion of over $2 million over the past two years. The gang defrauded bank accounts, moving funds to accounts of friends and family. The money was then withdrawn immediately, to avoid suspicion. The group was charged […]
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thenextweb.com reported that Latin Americans spend 56% more time on social networking sites than the worldwide average, research firm comScore reports. It also released interesting data on the most popular networks across the region. According to the findings, Argentina is Latin America’s most “social addicted” country, with an average of 9.8 hours on social networking […]
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laht.com reported that the Anonymous group of activist hackers took responsibility for attacks on the Web sites of Mexico’s defense and navy departments. Hackers gained access to all of the information in the defense department’s computers, Anonymous said on Twitter… Read Article
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Twitter is opening up an office in the largest city in South America, Reuters reports. “We believe our new office in Brazil will allow us to get closer to the users and show the value of our platform,” the company’s new country manager for Brazil, Guilherme Ribenboim, told Reuters. Read Article
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On January 11, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that a hacker said to have posted personal information of influential Workers’ Party (PT) members convicted in the Mensalão scandal now has posted sensitive personal information from Brazil’s ex-President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The hacker, using the Twitter handle @nbdu1nder, also posted information on […]
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Argentina Police foiled an international criminal organization that smuggled and distributed child pornography and ordered the arrest of 62 people after conducting 61 raids in different parts of the country, said Friday the Security Ministry said in a statement. “We identified the IP addresses of the computers containing pornographic material and sending and located the […]
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On January 8, 2013, Brasil 24/7 reported that a hacker (Twitter name @nbdu1nder) obtained personal information of three Workers’ Party (PT) politicians convicted in last decade’s Mensalão scandal and shared the information on Twitter. Dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and other information related to PT members José Dirceu, José Genoíno and Delúbio Soares became […]
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BRAZIL: Online Poll Conducted to Determine Most Corrupt Politician of 2012 On January 4, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the July 31 Movement (Movimento 31 de Julho) launched a poll on Facebook to survey public perceptions on the most corrupt politicians in Brazil. Named the Golden Handcuffs Trophy (Troféu Algemas de Ouro), […]
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“As part of our commitment to the people of Guatemala have been carried out for three days the operation called” OpDemocraciaGT “that is a result of seeing how our government manipulates at will the Guatemalan heritage,” said a pirate group video posted on the portal YouTube . Similarly, Anonymous threatened to “invade” the Guatemalan cyberspace […]
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President Rafael Correa asked the police to release Paul Ernesto Moreno, known on Twitter as @ paulcoyote, who in a digital publication said it had entered the name of the president in the Security and Data System, subsequently obtained their personal information. “I do not know what is the legal framework in these cases, but […]
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This morning was arrested in Riobamba the blogger Paul Moreno, better known by his nickname on Twitter @ paulcoyote, by order of the National Public Data Registry (DINARDAP) with the charge of fraudulent access to computer systems and databases. On November 26, Paul Moreno had described in his blog a publication to demonstrate that the […]
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–Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today reported that the 49th Civil Court of the Federal District of Mexico City has entered a non-final judgment of U.S. $2.7 billion against Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. in a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs Worldwide Directories S.A. de C.V. and Ideas Interactivas, S.A. de C.V. Yahoo! […]
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A group of telecommunications operators consisting of Cable & Wireless Communications, Setar, Telconet, Telefónica a Global Solutions and United Telecommunication Services (UTS) has signed a turnkey contract with Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) to deploy the Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS), a 100G submarine cable system linking Jacksonville, Florida to Manta, Ecuador. Read Article
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Android Police noted on Wednesday that Mexico had appeared on the list of countries with Google Maps Navigation support. Soon after, Google announced via @GoogleMexico on Twitter that Maps Navigation is now available for Android in Mexico. Users can grab the beta app via the Google Play Store. Read Mexico
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Brazil and Peru are attempting to block online retailer Amazon.com Inc. from acquiring new internet domains using the name of the world’s greatest tropical rain forest. The two South American countries have lodged a formal complaint with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Los Angeles-based nonprofit private organization that oversees the […]
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Attention. LaRepublica.pe site used to spread viruses on false death of Alberto Fujimori Tuesday, November 6, 2012 | 11:25 a.m. The name used to send fake video Republic of Alberto Fujimori. Comes through noticicas@larepublica.pe account. LaRepublica.pe cautions all readers that a virus is circulating disguised in the form of an email titled “Last Minute: Fujimori […]
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Newspapers accounting for 90% of the circulation in Brazil have abandoned Google News, reported bbc.co.uk. Brazil’s National Association of Newspapers says all 154 members had followed its recommendation to ban the search engine aggregator from using their content. Read Article NEED RELIABLE MEDIA MONITORING, OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA? WE PROVIDE OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AND […]
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RCNRADIO.com reported that according to The lack of security on smartphones, tablets or laptops or desktops, allows cyber attacks more easily. In the case of Colombia, the losses are close to $ 400 million annually, according to Gonzalo Erroz, regional manager for Olam – Norton computer security company. The figure, almost half of what it […]
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In 2010, the region had a web access very poor and 20 times more expensive than in developed countries, but that situation has been alleviated since then, said Mario Castillo in Quito, Project Coordinator-ECLA @ lis, which promotes information technology. In March of that year, the average cost of a service of a megabyte per […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that the Indigenous population of the canton Colta Kichwa (Chimborazo) began since Wednesday with cell phone service applications in their native language. The company takes delivery of this service at a cost of $ 44.99. According to records, there are 11,000 users Colta, as many will benefit applications in Kichwa, which means a […]
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The federal police in Sao Paulo on Wednesday announced the arrest of the president of Google Brazil, Fabio Jose Silva Coelho, not to remove YouTube videos of the platform to attack a mayoral candidate for the municipal elections in October. However, “because it is a low-crime offensive potential (…) will not remain in prison,” but […]
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The criminals use social networks and other websites in order to access their victims, police said. taggering. The National Police reported that so far this year, there have been 120 cases of child pornography in Peru. Hernan Daniel Alvarez, a member of the Research Division of High Tech Crime, held in Buenos day Peru that […]
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Senator Kirchner said the call made through social networks was organized by experts digitaron mobilization. “There were hundreds and thousands of false identities,” complained .. Senator Kirchner said the call made through social networks was organized by experts digitaron mobilization. “There were hundreds and thousands of false identities,” complained. Read Article
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Sitiope.com reported the subject indicated that child pornography was sent overseas. Agents Division High Technology Research detained a man accused of being part of an international network of child pornography. The suspect, identified as Julio Vallejos Neim Milan, he underwent a few meters from the bus station in Lima Plaza Norte where, police said, had […]
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Elcomercio.pe reported that the election judge Campina Grande, in the Brazilian state of Paraiba, has issued an arrest warrant against the CFO of Google Brazil , Luiz Edmundo Pinto Balthazar, for ignoring two court orders requiring him to remove a video from YouTube. The video in question is one in which Romero Rodrigues, a candidate […]
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The president announced that the National Plan of Banda Larga, the government does its part to bring fast internet and affordable for families, and exemplified that in 2011 state that service reached six million households. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said today that the government is working to expand access to a good internet connection and […]
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Google launched its project to install in Chile its first data processing center in Latin America, with an investment of 150 million dollars. The center will be located in an industrial area of the Quilicura in a suburb north of Santiago, and its construction will employ about 200 people. The heart then work with 20 […]
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EMOL.COM reported that a Peruvian cyber hacking group named “LulzSecPeru” which has hacked sites in other countries hacke Peru’s Ministry of Justice website. Their assault was announced over social media networks. LulzSecPeru placed their emblem on the main page of the Minister’s website that contained an insulting phrase against President. According to EMOL.COM the group […]
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In Colombia, according to the report of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), between March 2011 and March 2012 the company received 51 reports of children and adolescents who are victims of human trafficking, all recruited within the national territory and all purposes of sexual exploitation. “Lately much internet is being used as a means […]
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Eluniverso.com reported in the first six months of this year the Attorney General has nationally registered 1354 cases of financial crimes. The provinces that most complaints are recorded with 563 complaints Pichincha, Guayas and Santa Elena 275 to 131.In addition, the governing body of the national banking system ordered change old 332 ATMs nationwide, to […]
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The Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV) plans to expand the processing cluster supercomputer Xiuhcoatl (fire serpent), which, since its opening, has yielded positive results for 23 of 49 projects have been completed. Xiuhcoatl , is the largest and fastest supercomputer in the country and the second largest in Latin America. However, with the […]
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Indigenous children in the poverty-stricken regions of Latin America grow up in the shadows because they are often unregistered and unable to exercise their rights. As they grow and live illiterate, unemployed, and extremely poor lives, they have no identity and fall through the cracks of their nation-state’s civic system. They have no voice to […]
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Guardian.co.uk reported Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, says he hopes to be able to announce this week whether he will grant political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Correa told state TV a large amount of material about international law needed to be examined to make a responsible, informed decision. He said he expected to have […]
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Lahora.com.ec reported Anonymous Activist organization, which describes itself as an entity of protest on the Web, started in the morning the attack on local government websites of Ecuador.The attack called “Operation Internet Surkishka” criticizes the Telecommunications Act, specifically in the article that mandates the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (Suptel) may request information from ISPs as location […]
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Drug dealers have reached high levels of sophistication. It not only require payment in cash for their ‘good’, but now even have modern wireless devices to charge customers who pay with credit cards. Police and Drug Enforcement has been investigating this type of sale of narcotics, which is less risky for traffickers. According to one […]
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In two years, electronic crimes reported to the Scientific Division of the Federal Police grew more than 4 000 600 percent. Of 173 complaints in 2010 rose to 016 by June 8000 this year. According to government figures, fraud and various shops prevailed in 2010 and 2011, but so far this year total more than […]
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Currently, there are 53052520 Facebook users in the Brazil, which makes it #2 in the ranking of all Facebook statistics by Country. Total Facebook Users: 53052520 Position in the list: 2. Penetration of population: 26.38% Penetration of online population 69.86% Read Article
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Currently, there are 4781300 Facebook users in the Ecuador, which makes it #35 in the ranking of all Facebook statistics by Country. Total Facebook Users: 4781300 Position in the list: 35. Penetration of population: 32.33% Penetration of online population 202.62% Read Article
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Looking to become more popular among Internet users and increase local content. Yahoo! already has a physical presence in Colombia. It is the fourth office opened in the region after that of Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. El tiempo spoke about this new phase with Armando Rodriguez, executive director of the company for Latin America. What […]
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The LTE 4G UNE offers commercial speeds of 10 to 12 Megabits per second. Now available in Bogota and Medellin fastest Internet service in the country. In the second half of the year will reach Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena and Bucaramanga. Read Article
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Guerradelnarco.com.mx reported the group “Anonymous” in Mexico, the organization of social causes flying hackers to attack Web sites of all kinds, was marked after the criminal group known as “Los Zetas” raised last year, one of its members in the state of Veracruz, and confesses that he is afraid. One member stated “‘Los Zetas’ are […]
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Josefina Vázquez Mota, Mexican presidential candidate, is upset about the appearance of her ad on a narco blog. The Red Política reports the ad was displayed on the “Blog de Narco” site, a website discussing the controversial topic of drug violence related to organized crime. Representatives for Vázquez Mota assure the public that she is […]
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he owners and administrators of the website Taringa! have been accused of allowing through your website will download works without permission of the authors. The brothers Matias and Hernan Alberto Nakayama Botbol and will undergo public trial for violation of intellectual property law, according to Infobae.com. This is the first trial to be attended by […]
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Internet usage in the country is growing. When you post that one third of the population has access to the Internet through a connection at home, Internet cafes, information centers, educational institutions, office, etc.. Currently the country has hundreds of Internet service providers, but not counted more than 30 active operators nationwide, says Francisco Balarezo, […]
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Chile reached 62.66% in the call rate of adoption of information technology, which measures how close the country to access the average of OECD countries, ie a gap of 37% the parameter used to measure ourselves in the world. But after a year, the figures are more encouraging: only analyzing data from the first half […]
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in Latin America, thefts from customer accounts totaling approximately $ 761 million, according to a study by the Internet Address Registry for Latin America and Caribbean. To this is added the cost of theft of personal data by 93,000 million, affecting about 2,500 banks in the region. While technology brings sophisticated banking sector advocacy tools, […]
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A10 months before the next elections, the government and prepares a massive publicity campaign and monitoring social networks and the Internet. In March, the President signed a contract with Mercantile Advertising Merpubli to develop a marketing strategy to cope in social networking spaces, sending emails, search engine optimization, Google, and monitoring networks Facebook and Twitter. […]
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With more than 1,600 antennas and base stations installed throughout the country, the National Telecommunications Company (Entel) managed to expand its service network and is one step to reach 100% coverage of the 337 municipalities of Bolivia. “When we talk about business growth in the last four years, after nationalization, we can say we got […]
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The number of mobile phones grew 12.2 percent in the first half of the year over the same period earlier, while imports of such equipment fell 17.3 percent, for the development of the local assembly of equipment. This was stated by a report by consultancy Sectoral Economic Research (IES) released this morning. According to this […]
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Carlos Dada, the editor of the San Salvador-based online newspaper El Faro, told Reporters Without Borders he planned to leave El Salvador today as a temporary safety measure after failing to obtain internal security ministry protection from the serious threats he has been receiving. Dada declined to tell Reporters Without Borders where he was going […]
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The Senate passed the NAFTA. Photo: Jose Luis Peñarredonda (ENTER.CO) Bill 201 of 2012, which contains the so-called “law of NAFTA ‘ , was approved by the Senate. The House, meanwhile, also voted in the affirmative. In the House, the procedure was painless. Each political party voted as a bloc and the initiative passed without […]
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The hacker group Anonymous attacked at least 12 Internet portals of government of Colombia to protest the law that seeks to regulate copyright and web browsing. V Aryans Internet portals of government and the Congress of Colombia were attacked today in actions claimed by the international organization of Anonymous hackers. Among the sites attacked include […]
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On April 7th, 2012, Twitter account for G4L10 H4CK announced they hacked the Argentina website for DUMARIE.COM.AR Source Dumarie is a manufacturer of farming equipment.
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Three men and one woman managed to steal through digital and electronic transactions 600 million pesos of bank accounts of a health promoter Bucaramanga. The members of this criminal gang were able to “hack” the financial system through electronic processes IPS and managed to send this money to the bank accounts of 17 people, officials […]
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THE FINE COULD GET TO THE $ 200 MILLION After Easter, the Government announced the sanction against Movistar The operator shall submit its defense next Tuesday before the authorities, although there is resignation among its executives by the Government’s decision. The operator of Telefónica promises to compensate customers for the collapse Next week, after the […]
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He is one of the prepaid service subscribers in the last hours recorded cell lines that comprise between 94% (12.64 million customers), who until yesterday were registered. From today, 6% of customers who failed the trial, which began in July 2011, will begin to see restricted services. Yesterday, the telecommunications minister, Jaime Guerrero, confirmed that […]
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Starting tomorrow, the cellular operators will begin to restrict services to prepaid lines that are not registered. This, once it expires on April 5 the first deadline set by the National Telecommunications Council (Conatel) to allow subscribers to record their data. Others who failed to register their cell phone can not make calls, use the […]
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For Valérie Lunven, problems with your cell phone Movistar continued: yesterday, when he returned to work after the long weekend, warned that the mobile phone company who provides the employees had no service. “We were without service, so none of us could communicate with any phone. The company has blocked the call from cell phones […]
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The mobile phone company acknowledged that register a fault in their communications networks nationwide. Thousands of customers express their complaints through social networks. In some places, the problem began last night. Since last night, some users reported problems with the Movistar mobile phone service to stay no signal and can not make calls, send text […]
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Police noticed yesterday the arrest of six youths, including two children, whom he accuses of being part of a local cell of the group Anonymous, which describes as “international network of cyber-terrorism.” According to a note by the Police, Milton Corniell David Jimenez, Jean Carlos Rafael Acosta, Cristian de la Rosa Jose de los Santos […]
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The addiction treatment centers are consulted by the excessive use of the Web since 2002, but between 2010 and 2011 doubled by the rage for social networking. “What is alarming is the growth of the proportion (of visits). The problem started appearing in 2002 with the rise of Internet cafes. Always be attentive to the […]
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Mexico: Anonymous Hacks Archdiocese Website The Archdiocese website was hacked by Anonymous protesting the Pope Benedict XVI visit to Mexico. Hackers have named this operation as #opFariseo and #opGorron in their @MexicoSystem Twitter account. Read Article
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The office of the elected frontrunner Josefina Vazquez Mota denounced the “dirty war” waged in social networks, which based on slander and defamation seeks to undermine the price and the social acceptance that has aroused among the citizens. Read Article
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The National Commission for the Protection and Defense of Users of Financial Services (Condusef) warned the public about the existence of internet emails offering large sums of money for the deposit of data resources or credit or debit cards and bank accounts. Through a statement, the federal agency reported on new forms of fraud through […]
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ARRESTS OF SUSPECTED ANONYMOUS MEMBERS IN COLOMBIA, ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA, SPAIN Guardian.co.uk reported Interpol’s website appears to have been the victim of a cyber-attack after the international police agency announced the arrests of 25 suspected members of the hacking activist group Anonymous in Europe and South America. The website went down briefly on Tuesday as supporters […]
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Amid the onslaught of the U.S. against illegal download site Megaupload , the Argentine government ordered yesterday that the site links of movies and television series Cuevano longer offers three programs of the U.S. producer Turner (a division of Time Warner). Decorative Paper is one of the most popular portals in Spanish, receives two million […]
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Rio de Janeiro. Anonymous group of hackers attacked early Saturday the government websites of the Federal District of Brasilia and a Brazilian singer to protest against the closure of Megaupload.com. Anonymous posted Twitter messages telling attacks that lasted two hours to one hundred sites Brasilia ‘df.gov.br’, belonging to the government of the federal capital from […]
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Facebook surpassed Orkut as the social network with most visitors in the Brazilian internet in December, according to data of North-American consulting company comScore. Mark Zuckerberg’s social network had 36.1 million visitors last year, while its competitor Orkut, of Google, registered 34.4 million visitors. Facebook visitors almost tripled compared to December 2010 figures, when it […]
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According to rpp.com, 20 million soles equivalent to 7 million dollars, have been stolen by criminal gangs through false business scams and internet fraud in 2011. The criminals posed as representatives of large companies in order to trick the victims into their private banking information by providing cloned websites of financial institutions by using viruses. […]
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Ecuador signed an agreement with the European Union to 91 rural communities to access the installation of connectivity, internet and IP telephony. This project is part of EUROSOLAR program promoted by the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy jointly with the EU. Read Article
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Arequipa, Apurimac, Moquegua, Puno and Tacna have problems with Internet. Members of the departments of Arequipa , Apurimac , Puno , Moquegua and Tacna suffered a partial section of your Internet service today at 9 am due to breakage of the fiber optic network Telefónica . Sources of Telefónica reported that their fixed telephony, mobile […]
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According to research by comScore, a company that is responsible for measuring the digital world and preferred source of the analysis of digital businesses, 69.5% of Internet users in Latin America choose Hotmail as your email preference. In second place, far behind, is Gmail with 20.6% of users and a third, Pegadito to email Google, […]
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Thousands of fraudulent emails as the one below are being sent claiming to be NACHA. A call to the organization produces a recording saying that the emails are fraudulent. They also warn not to click on the link as it is a trick and your computer may become infected with a virus. The example below […]
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A television channel would make a complaint to the Justice against the portal online movies and having uploaded without permission from the web content. The lawyers of both parties have failed to attempt an informal The Argentine popular site online movies and would be denounced criminal Cuevano Telefe today, already informally warned those responsible for […]
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ARGENTINA, 28% of Argentine companies have started using social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to interact with diverse audiences, according to the results of the 2011 International Business Report from Grant Thornton. Read Article
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The government of Raul Castro accused the United States to collaborate with the expansion in Cuba for crimes related to illegal connections to the Internet and satellite television, supplying equipment and telecommunications equipment that allow secret on the island. In April this year were held in Havana, an unspecified number of people engaged in installing […]
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Telefónica will start commercial operations in Costa Rica starting this Tuesday with a service offering prepaid, postpaid and business, ending the state monopoly mobile Latin American country. Mobile penetration in Costa Rica, which currently has 4.5 million inhabitants, around 65%, which means “large” opportunities for growth of new companies that will participate in the telecommunications […]
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With the Salvadoran election time a new character has come to the country’s political life: Anonymous. Apparently, a network of hackers has taken by flag virtual punishment for those politicians or para-politicians, government agencies or parties that do not meet the requirements of honest service. The action is simple: enter the computer security of their […]
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