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2016-11-09 15:36:40 | WoT pulls browser extension after privacy failure (lien direct) | WoT has left its users exposed on the web by not properly anonymizing the user data it has been selling to third parties. |
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2016-11-09 12:56:58 | Facebook suspends plans to collect WhatsApp user data in the UK (lien direct) | Consumer rights 'aren't properly protected', says the ICO as it says users should be given 'ongoing control' over their data
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2016-11-09 10:07:57 | Would your password withstand 100 guesses from a hacker? (lien direct) | A little PII could be enough to give attackers the edge |
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2016-11-08 16:21:41 | Hacker used password resets to break into 1,050 university email accounts (lien direct) | How secure are university email accounts? |
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2016-11-08 12:07:26 | Microsoft to shield world chess champion from Russian hackers (lien direct) | Leading up to Friday's world championship, he asked for help in keeping months of computer-intensive analysis and preparations safe. |
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2016-11-08 11:01:04 | Who needs a Stingray when Wi-Fi can do the job? (lien direct) | Ordinary Wi-Fi hotspots can be used to extract indentifiers from your cellphone, researchers have found |
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2016-11-07 17:05:09 | Worried about the Tesco Bank attack? Here\'s our advice (lien direct) | Tesco Bank has pledged to refund any money stolen from customers, but it's always a good idea to review your security, whoever you bank with |
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2016-11-07 15:57:11 | Tor marketplaces shut down by Operation Hyperion (lien direct) | Law enforcement agencies from around the world joined together in the latest campaign to take down illegal marketplaces on Tor. |
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2016-11-07 13:07:32 | Oil exec accused of impersonating Elon Musk in an email sues Tesla over Twitter hack (lien direct) | Todd Katz says Tesla illegally accessed his Twitter account in its investigation of a Yahoo email crafted to look like it came from Musk. |
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2016-11-07 12:45:10 | Ukrainian hackers \'snatch huge email cache from Kremlin\' (lien direct) | The emails reportedly show Russia's organizing Ukrainian separatists. The hack, if legit, shows Russian leaders are as vulnerable as others. |
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2016-11-07 12:03:40 | Monday review – the hot 17 stories of the week (lien direct) | From getting busted on the Dark Web and the 'super cookie' stopped by Firefox to the grandmother billed $5K for alleged piracy, and more! |
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2016-11-04 16:50:04 | There\'s no best way to handle disclosure of zero-day vulnerabilities (lien direct) | Earlier this week, the headlines flashed with news that Google had disclosed a vulnerability to Microsoft that allows local privilege escalation in Windows 10. |
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2016-11-04 13:57:55 | Berners-Lee raises spectre of weaponized open data (lien direct) | Tim Berners-Lee warns hackers could use open data to create societal chaos. What's going on here? The fear of data sabotage, that's what. |
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2016-11-04 10:43:50 | Glasses make facial recognition think you\'re a celebrity (lien direct) | These biometric-baffling babies cost mere pennies. Just in time: Facebook's said that users can't stop it from using our biometrics. |
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2016-11-03 17:36:26 | WeMo smart home devices can be used to spy on Android phones (lien direct) | Researchers found vulnerabilities, now fixed, that could have turned your crockpot into a launching pad for malicious JavaScript. |
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2016-11-02 19:59:29 | Facebook halts plan to mine profiles for insurance quotes (lien direct) | It's opt-in for now, but Admiral - one of the biggest car insurance companies in the UK - isn't ruling out expanding the program.  |
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2016-11-02 17:25:53 | Don\'t cyber-mess with Britain, warns UK Chancellor (lien direct) | The UK will retaliate against cyber-attackers, Philip Hammond promises |
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2016-11-02 17:06:13 | Firefox kills the Battery Status \'super cookie\' (lien direct) | What is the Battery Status API good for? Besides tracking you online that is. |
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2016-11-02 16:50:32 | New FCC ISP privacy rules create more questions than answers (lien direct) | The FCC's new ISP privacy rules have opened wide the debate on when and what data gathered over the internet should be deemed sensitive. |
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2016-11-02 12:01:53 | 86-year-old grandmother billed $5K, accused of pirating zombie game (lien direct) | An Ontario octogenarian has been caught up in Canada's institution of new copyright infringement rules. |
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2016-11-01 17:13:37 | No, checking in via Facebook won\'t help Standing Rock protestors (lien direct) | A viral post prompting thousands of Facebook users to confound police assessments of protestors was based on a false claim that the police used Facebook to do that.  |
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2016-11-01 16:21:33 | The Clinton emails – from humble iMac to datacentre (lien direct) | Hillary Clinton's email server has been at the heart of the election, but how did that happen? |
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2016-11-01 11:47:31 | Critical vulnerabilities pose a serious threat to Joomla sites (lien direct) | Websites using the Joomla CMS have been under sustained attack thanks to a vicious pair of vulnerabilities disclosed last week |
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2016-11-01 10:56:18 | Security All Saints: security is for life, not just for Halloween (lien direct) | The day after Halloween is All Saints' Day - are you ready to try out being a Security Saint? |
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2016-10-31 16:57:52 | Scary security: Halloween costume ideas from the EFF and us (lien direct) | The privacy rights organization's got you covered, from a facial recognition algorithm grid to a privacy badger. We had a few ideas too! |
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2016-10-31 16:46:41 | Why did WhatsApp change its mind over privacy? The EU wants answers (lien direct) | WhatsApp urged to hold fire on tighter integration with Facebook until users are offered more legal protection |
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2016-10-31 13:15:36 | Halloween Special: three zombie security myths that just won\'t die (lien direct) | Paul Ducklin returns alive from an undercover investigative assignment into undead Zombie Security Myths...and here they are. |
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2016-10-31 11:45:43 | Monday review – the hot 21 stories of the week (lien direct) | From fake blue screens of death to how hackers broke into John Podesta's emails and more, catch up with all the news from the past seven days |
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2016-10-28 17:45:25 | Ensuring that ICS/SCADA isn\'t our next IoT nightmare (lien direct) | The DDoS chaos of the past month tells us that we need to work together to ensure future standards and reduce security risks |
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2016-10-28 15:55:08 | Celeb nude photo thief Ryan Collins sentenced to 18 months in jail (lien direct) | He broke into over 600 victims' accounts and ran a modeling scam to get even more nude pics. Busy guy! Set up an app to automatically download entire iCloud backups.  |
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2016-10-28 14:55:20 | PayPal 2FA bypass – how did *that* get past testing? (lien direct) | Want to make sure you get no questions wrong when you take a test? Easy! Set a test with no questions. |
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2016-10-28 11:16:04 | New FCC rules impose privacy boost for ISP customers (lien direct) | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has just issued long-awaited rules about how ISPs can use and share personal information. |
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2016-10-28 11:15:00 | Canadian police to text all phone numbers in vicinity of murder victim (lien direct) | Police only got numbers, not names, in a so-called tower dump, but what's to stop them from correlating those numbers with other crimes? |
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2016-10-28 10:32:49 | Keep your family safe with these security tips from Sophos (lien direct) | You're probably already using security software to protect your home computers. But what about the other steps you need to take to keep your family safe and secure? |
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2016-10-28 09:24:36 | Keep your LinkedIn profile secure with the Kevin Bacon rule (lien direct) | Why is LinkedIn such a popular target for hackers? It is like a digital demonstration of the famous six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon - every user has value.  |
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2016-10-27 13:26:22 | Sweden bans cameras on drones, deeming it illegal surveillance (lien direct) | The country last week flat-out banned the use of cameras on drones, unless their operators have obtained a special surveillance permit. |
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2016-10-27 11:26:24 | Facebook hoax: “Live†videos of space walk? Not quite! (lien direct) | Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, but no, that video was riper than a 3-year-old biscuit left in a cosmonaut's space suit. |
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2016-10-26 15:56:49 | Two-factor authentication (2FA) and why we do or don\'t use it (lien direct) | 526 users were questioned about their security behaviours, advice sources, reasoning and beliefs. |
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2016-10-26 15:49:29 | Fake Blue Screen of Death faux-freezes your system like the real McCoy (lien direct) | It hides your cursor, disables Task Manager and plasters your screen with a BSoD image. Calling the number leads to bogus help centers. |
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2016-10-26 11:01:24 | Accountant jailed after falling for Nigerian email scammer sexpot (lien direct) | He lied to a friend to get £151,000 in loans to send to a "woman" (unlikely) he claimed to have met in Liverpool (nope, didn't happen!).  |
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2016-10-26 10:48:33 | IoT chickens come home to roost (lien direct) | October was convulsed by the heft of a few billion IoT chickens coming home to roost. |
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2016-10-25 15:58:19 | DirtyCOW Linux hole works on Android too – “root at will†(lien direct) | Turns out that the DirtyCOW Linux exploit can be used on Android, too. Rooters will be delighted, sysadmins might not be. |
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2016-10-25 15:52:43 | Apple iOS users taste Android anxiety with nasty CoreGraphics image flaw (lien direct) | Apple's latest round of patches is a reminder that mobile platforms aren't very different to one another: they all run software and they are all fragile |
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2016-10-25 12:07:36 | How hackers broke into John Podesta, DNC Gmail accounts (lien direct) | At the heart of enormous breaches lies a tiny thing: rigged Bitly shortened URLs. |
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2016-10-24 16:22:08 | Russian indicted over LinkedIn and Dropbox mega-breaches (lien direct) | He's charged with foisting malware on LinkedIn and stealing millions of user credentials. A third intended target was allegedly Formspring.  |
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2016-10-24 15:59:24 | Dyn DDoS – what can we do right now to help prevent the next attack? (lien direct) | In the wake of the Dyn attack, let's encourage ourselves to make it harder for the crooks to co-opt us into helping them... |
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2016-10-24 15:55:28 | Jester defaces website but the Russian Government isn\'t laughing (lien direct) | 'Batman of the Internet' lectures Putin regime about Dyn attack |
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2016-10-24 13:44:28 | Anonymous hacker charged with #opJustina DDoS attacks on hospitals (lien direct) | To his horror, his lead prosecutor is Carmen Ortiz: she who went after Aaron Swartz and Jonathan James. Both committed suicide pre-trial. |
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2016-10-24 11:23:01 | Mirai, Mirai, on the wall – through the looking glass of the attack on Dyn (lien direct) | Since Friday's big DDoS attack on Dyn, we've heard a lot about what Mirai and the attack on Dyn was, much of which is guesswork to fill in the blanks. Let's look at some of the assertions and myths that have been doing the rounds. |
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2016-10-24 09:05:49 | Monday review – the hot 25 stories of the week (lien direct) | From Facebook's privacy hoax zombie and the Dark Web drug shop exposed by a blunder, to Netflix's discovery of users' passwords and more! |
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