France and Netherlands asked the EU Authority to regulate tech giants
France and the Netherlands yesterday called for a European Union authority to step in and introduce stricter regulations for large tech companies like Facebook and Google. The two companies, especially, are so dominant that they have effectively become the internet's default gatekeeper.
France a...
Emotet attacks spike in France, Japan, and New Zealand
Cybersecurity agencies from Japan, France, and New Zealand have issued security alerts in recent publications. In the publications, they warn about a massive spike in Emotet malware attack. The Emotet activity involves email spam campaigns that are a product of the Emotet infrastructure.
They ha...
France wants to tax tech giants regardless of international agreement
France will tax large digital companies this year. Regardless of any progress made towards an international agreement, the French Finance Minister states.
Nearly 140 countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are negotiating a significant revision of the tax r...
Botnet with million infected computers taken over
The French police have taken over and neutralised a large botnet for cryptographic currency mining. The botnet managed nearly a million infected computers.
It was the Retadup malware, writes Techcrunch. This malware infects computers and then uses processor power to minimize cryptographic currency. ...
After the United Kingdom, France also introduces tax measures for tech giants.
After the United Kingdom, France is now also introducing a digital tax measure aimed at large American tech companies. This was announced today by the French Finance Minister at a press conference. Bruno le Maire stated that the measure would apply from 1 January.
It is the hope of the French govern...