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In the middle of last year, the hacking group Anonymous tried but failed to attack various Vatican Internet servers. A report that was just released by Imperva shows the extent of their prowess, and is a blueprint for other corporate security managers who want to try to protect their own networks in the future from miscreants. While the report itself doesn't divulge the destination of the attack, it has been widely reported by the New York Times and other news outlets that it was the Vatican.

e site ledocteur.fr propose aux internautes de poser, anonymement et gratuitement, des questions à des professionnels de santé. L'objectif de ce site est de mettre en relation directe, gratuite et anonyme, les internautes avec des médecins - généralistes et spécialistes - diplômés et inscrits au conseil de l'Ordre.

"Vetter est un service Web 2.0 pour faire brainstormer ensemble une équipe dans une entreprise. Le service se présente sous la forme d'une sorte de boite à idées dans les nuages ou chacun pourra glisser son idée d'amélioration ou de nouveau service ou produit par exemple. Collaboratif, Vetter va collecter de manère anonyme les propositions mais surtout il va permettre à tout le monde voter por les meilleures idées en éventuellement les complétant. En tant qu'administrateur c'est vous qui serez en charge d'inviter les participants à se joindre au système de brainstorming. Chacun peut voter, mais chacun peut aussi anonymement proposer de nouvelles idées et les soumettre aux avis et au vote des autres."

Within the next decade, smart-device swiping will have gained mainstream acceptance as a method of payment and could largely replace cash and credit cards for most online and in-store purchases by smartphone and tablet owners, according to a new survey of technology experts and stakeholders. Many of the people surveyed by Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project said that the security, convenience and other benefits of "mobile wallet" systems will lead to widespread adoption of these technologies for everyday purchases by 2020. Others-including some who are generally positive about the future of mobile payments-expect this process to unfold relatively slowly due to a combination of privacy fears, a desire for anonymous payments, demographic inertia, a lack of infrastructure to support widespread adoption, and resistance from those with a financial stake in the existing payment structure.

"Des valeurs pourtant clamées par de multiples associations, des principes ardemment défendus par le collectif Anonymous, les libertés sur Internet et la neutralité du Web semblent avoir été sérieusement remises en cause ces dernières semaines aux Etats-Unis comme en France. Pourtant, même si la plupart des évènements ont été amplement relayés par la presse, les critiques s'estompent rapidement avec le temps. Alors que s'est-il donc passé cet été ? Quels sont ces principes qui semblent avoir été bousculés par ces dernières déclarations ? Voici un tour de l'actualité de l'été sur ces sujets."

""GIVE me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws." So said Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. What would he make of Bitcoin, an online currency with no issuing authority whatsoever? Despite being written off following a speculative bubble and crash last year, the online cryptocurrency is still going strong, not least thanks to its ability to circumnavigate the law. Bitcoin was devised in 2009 by a mysterious figure known as Satoshi Nakomoto. It is the world's first, and so far only, decentralised online currency. Instead of a central bank, Bitcoins can be issued by anyone with a powerful personal computer: it mints them by solving extremely difficult mathematical problems. The problems are automatically made harder to ensure that the overall supply of Bitcoins cannot grow too fast. They are traded online, with transactions cryptographically authenticated."