Giving someone access to your computer is like giving out a key to your front door. A computer can have your bank account information, family photos, and other private documents and data—information that fraudsters would like to steal. That’s why tech support fraud has become a significant trend in online crime, according to the 2016 Internet Crime Report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).
Today sees the release of the latest situation report into counterfeiting in Europe, prepared by Europol and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). This report was presented at the IP Enforcement Summit in Berlin, an event organised by the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, EUIPO and the European Commission.
par Adam Rothstein
The story of bicoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution
Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering.
These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies - digital currencies conceived by computer hackers and cryptographers that represent a completely new sort of financial transaction that could soon become mainstream.
Que mange-t-on quand on ouvre une boîte de concentré, verse du ketchup dans son assiette ou entame une pizza ? Des tomates d’industrie. Transformées en usine, conditionnées en barils de concentré, elles circulent d’un continent à l’autre. Toute l’humanité en consomme, pourtant personne n’en a vu. Où, comment et par qui ces tomates sont-elles cultivées et récoltées ?
In the 1960s, Indian policy-makers identified distortions in the domestic pharmaceutical market, and in 1970 decided to eliminate pharmaceutical product patent protection. Local scientists were able to reverse engineer pharmaceutical compounds manufactured in industrialized countries. Local entrepreneurs built manufacturing facilities; refined manufacturing technologies; and produced and sold increasingly large volumes of pharmaceutical products that were subject to patent protection elsewhere.
From the World Health Organization (WHO/OMS) standpoint, the single most important aspect of China’s current policy with respect to the pharmaceutical sector is its close linkage to the objective of universal health care (UHC). UHC is a key priority for the China Government, which has committed to providing access to medicines for its people.
Des lacunes dans les procédures de traçabilité du Cameroun créent des possibilités de contrebande et de corruption, constate l’ONG « Partenariat Afrique Canada » (www.PACweb.org), dans un rapport publié fin 2016 : c’est ainsi que des diamants bruts provenant de la zone de conflit de la République centrafricaine (RCA) pénètrent la chaîne d’approvisionnement légale en raison de ses faibles contrôles.
Le vin est tout à la fois un produit agricole, un bien de luxe, un produit manufacturé standardisé, un objet culturel et il est même devenu un support d’investissement coté en Bourse. À l’image du produit, l’économie du vin est plurielle, complexe et passionnante.
Ils se définissent comme « les experts de l’impossible » réunis au sein d’une Compagnie pluridisciplinaire, au service de la sécurité et de la lutte contre la contrefaçon avec notamment un centre CMA (Médiation – Conciliation – Arbitrage).
Nearly one in five mobile phones and one in four video game consoles shipped internationally is fake, as a growing trade in counterfeit IT and communications hardware weighs on consumers, manufacturers and public finances, according to a new OECD report.