Today Internet speed test becomes a very popular way for users to check their 3G wireless or home office broadband network downloading and uploading speed in Kbit/S or KBytes/S.

The primary reason to test the speed of your internet connection is to simply see if you're getting what you paid for. First you should know what is the advertised download and upload speeds for your broadband package by checking your contract or by contacting your internet service provider's customer service. These numbers are usually either Mbps (megabits per second) or kbps (kilobits per second). You can use this page to convert between them. Note that the speeds they list are typically the theoretical maximum. As long as you achieve close to them (90 percent is a fair expectation), then you are getting what you pay for!

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As mobile applications and remote expansion grows, so do the challenges of securing a network while making sure users and especially clients have fast applications access. With emerging mobile technologies, thriving global markets and heightened focus on disaster preparedness, remote access control has become a business imperative. The modern mobile workforce demands secure access to data, information and more resources from more remote devices and platforms such desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets.

An SSL VPN (Secure Sockets Layer virtual private network) is a form of VPN that can be used with a standard Web browser. In contrast to the traditional Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) VPN, an SSL VPN does not require the installation of specialized client software on the end user's computer. It's used to give remote users with access to Web applications, client/server applications and internal network connections.

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Cybercriminals targeting Europe are now being monitored by a new European Centre called EC3 , which aims at fighting against cybercrime and was officially opened on January 11th , 2013.

The threat of cybercrime goes beyond the borders of individual countries and the European Community has decided to react by creating the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3).

Internet is global, and so is the cybercrime it conveys

says Christian Aghroum, who coordinates a Club of companies security directors called CDSE and one of the key people involved in this project since 2008. We can not be satisfied to see the problem being address on a national level. The set up of this center will make the fight against cybercrime more efficient. It shows the awareness about cybersecurity issues from the European authorities. "

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In Thailand where Internet is not yet so developed: broadband Internet and 3G access are still poor, security is lacking but the country is known for its pervasive censorship. Outside Bangkok and major cities, Internet access is extremely slow. On the security aspect, Thailand ranks third on the list of the countries which are most infected with viruses or malware computer. Someone using the Web in Thailand has a 20% chance of finding malware, according to the research firm Sophos.

To fight against cybercrime, Thailand has adopted the 2007 Computer Crime Act, which purpose is mainly to punish computer and Internet crimes such as phishing or hacking. However, this law also covers the control of information and censorship on the Internet and has strong effect on the freedom of speech and action on Internet.

Since the adoption of the Computer Crime Act, more than 80,000 sites have been censored by the Thai police.This law was indeed created with the right aim to punish illegal activities on the Internet, such as data pornographic and pirated addresses that can harm a person, public security or terrorism-related activities.

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Millions of internet users connect to Facebook,Twitter and YouTube, do shopping online or comment on blogs and articles on news websites.

These activities became quite common and most of the time this leave traces and the user does not always know the consequences of this: some personal information, such as the age, address, birthday and shopping habits are collected and used by commercial websites for commercial purposes. This even led to a new type of job, called the "data miners": they capture and manipulate your personal data to provide advertisers with such information.

A report from The Guardian said that an Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook for a copy of all the data it had on him. He received a CD of 1,200 pages of information, some of it consisting of items he had "deleted" from the site, .

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