Computer users are being advised by security experts to disable Oracle Corp.’s widely used Java software after a security flaw was discovered that they say hackers are exploiting to attack computers. “Java is a mess. It’s not secure,” said Jaime Blasco, Labs Manager with AlienVault Labs. “You have to disable it.” Java, which is on [...]
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This weekend a unique diplomatic standoff took place when a Spanish ship, authorized by Britain to fish in the Falkland Islands, was pursued by Argentine authorities but successfully fled to Uruguayan waters. The incident began when the Spanish ship Villa Nores, having departed for the Falklands from Montevideo the previous Saturday, was challenged by the [...]
Besides being an advisor of the Organization of American States (OAS), and directly involved in the peace process in Colombia, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has been very active in other matters related to Latin American politics. Recently in Mexico, Judge Garzón was invited to an international Conference on Money Laundering. During the event, the famous [...]
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During a lecture under the XXIX Interdisciplinary Course on Human Rights which concluded on August 19th at the American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica, the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón said that governments foster instability among citizens when politicians elaborate security policies without consulting the people. Garzón called upon the american states to include [...]
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Carmona (Seville), July 3rd. - The ‘International Course on Jihadist Terrorism: Elements of a national strategy against terrorism’ is the name of the workshop which inaugurates the programming of the ninth edition of the Summer Courses of the University Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in collaboration with the Municipality of Carmona, Seville; to start in Carmona [...]
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Spanish police arrested three men suspected to be members of the hacker group Anonymous on Friday, charging them with organizing cyber attacks against the websites of Sony Corp, banks and governments — but not the recent massive hacking of PlayStation gamers. Anonymous responded by threatening to retaliate for the arrests: “We are Legion, so EXPECT [...]
Anonymous is an Internet clandestine organization that originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan. Anonymous originally represented the concept of an anarchic cyber organization but it is becoming more and more organized. Anonymous functions as many online community users simultaneously existing as a digitized global brain. Their identities are not known, and allegedly some of [...]
Spanish police stopped the illegal sale of nine military transport helicopters – Bell 212- to Iran and chopper spare parts to Venezuela. The police operation, which took place simultaneously in Madrid and Barcelona, led to the arrests of five Spanish businessmen and three Iranian nationals, reports say. The five Spanish businessmen are suspected of trying [...]
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Spain remains being the hub for cocaine smuggling into Europe. Also Spain tops european statistics of cocaine use, while around 1600 spaniards remain imprisoned abroad for drug-related crimes. Experts say the price of cocaine sold on European streets has not increased and has remained stable during 2010, indicating that the supply is meeting demand and that [...]
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The proposal for international mediation in Libya, made by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, would not yield fruit, said Monday the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, who is visiting Madrid. “I think the mediators, must be countries or persons offering guarantees to both sides and I think the mediation that President Chávez offered was not accepted [...]
