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2016-09-04 23:47:39 | What does “abundance of caution†mean, then? [Chet Chat Podcast 251] (lien direct) | Enjoy the latest episode of our regular security podcast. |
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2016-09-02 17:04:16 | And the worst passwords from the Last.fm hack are… (lien direct) | Music analytics site Last.fm had a user credential breach in 2012, the details of which are just now becoming public.  |
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2016-09-02 15:59:07 | “Hillary Clinton hacker†Guccifer sentenced to 52 months for other crimes (lien direct) | The star-studded hacker cracked 100 US email accounts, including those of Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell, and George Bush.
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2016-09-02 15:58:19 | Fantom ransomware pretends to be a Windows critical update (lien direct) | The good news is that this ransomware is a badly-done job based on pulbicly available sources; the bad news is... exactly the same. |
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2016-09-02 11:12:16 | Patch now! Recent iOS vulnerability affects Macs too (lien direct) | Exploits against iOS don't always translate into exploits against OS X, but in this case it seems they do. |
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2016-09-01 16:06:49 | 40% of Facebook users click on phishy links. Do you? (lien direct) | More than half of those who got a phishy email and about 40% of Facebook users clicked on a link from an unknown sender that could have been crawling with malware, for all they knew.  |
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2016-09-01 15:40:09 | Mac password-stealing malware haunts Transmission app… again (lien direct) | The official download of the Transmission app was hacked again: last time it was ransomware, this time a password stealer. |
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2016-09-01 12:46:53 | Yahoo email privacy lawsuit settled (lien direct) | Yahoo can no longer intercept your emails in transit but can still analyze them after they hit your inbox. |
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2016-09-01 11:23:29 | Mr. Robot season 2 episode 2.7init5.fve – the security review (lien direct) | Plenty of plot twists and turns in this week's Mr Robot episode, but what about the security concepts? |
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2016-08-31 17:17:55 | How one man could have owned GitHub, and what happened next… (lien direct) | A blundering Certificate Authority called "WoSign" is causing consternation amongst Mozilla's security policy team. |
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2016-08-31 17:16:50 | Dropbox hack leads to 68 million passwords dumped online (lien direct) | Dropbox is pushing password changes to users after millions of account details are released online. |
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2016-08-31 16:43:42 | 3 tips for better security and privacy on Snapchat (lien direct) | Share your Snapchat story safely with our tips for improving your security and privacy on the messaging app. |
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2016-08-31 12:52:46 | Runaway teen hops on Facebook to ask police to use nicer mugshot (lien direct) | Who can blame her? The photo she sent police looks like it came from a much happier time.  |
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2016-08-30 16:37:41 | Is Facebook\'s People You May Know putting users at risk? (lien direct) | With a bit of luck you might avoid the algorithms' edge cases, but you can't stop the algorithms churning altogether. |
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2016-08-30 16:08:33 | Fake news story hits Trending Topics after Facebook lays off staff (lien direct) | They got 1 hour to hand over phones and computers and to vacate the office. Facebook got 2 days before its algorithms were tricked.  |
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2016-08-30 14:00:32 | Opera announces data breach: stored passwords stolen for 1.7M users (lien direct) | 1.7M users of "Opera sync" were hit when crooks made off with encrypted passwords stored on the Sync servers.  |
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2016-08-30 13:54:08 | Enhanced DMV facial recognition system leads to 100 arrests (lien direct) | The new system doubles the measurement points mapped to each digitized driver photo, enabling duplicate licenses to be spotted faster. |
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2016-08-30 13:16:35 | Russian MP\'s son found guilty of stealing over 2 million US credit cards (lien direct) | He's facing 4 to 40 years in prison for PoS malware that drained businesses of more than $169 million.
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2016-08-30 10:39:36 | Turn on two-step verification for your PSN account now! (lien direct) | Don't wait! Hit pause on whatever game you're playing and turn on 2SV for PlayStation Network right away! |
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2016-08-26 16:22:31 | Future iPhones might grab a thief\'s photo and fingerprint when stolen (lien direct) | A device would snap a photo of (what the device assumes may be) a thief, capture their fingerprint, shoot some video and/or record audio.  |
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2016-08-26 12:22:18 | How to opt out of WhatsApp sharing your phone number with Facebook (lien direct) | It says it's not reading or sharing your messages, but it will share your phone number. Here's how to opt out (at least partially). |
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2016-08-26 11:01:49 | Hackers insert malware into Thai ATMs, steal 12 million baht (lien direct) | Sources said that unlike the Taiwan heist, there were rigged chip cards involved in this robbery. Still, police suspect the same gang. |
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2016-08-26 00:21:27 | Apple iOS users, update now – zero-day attack seen in the wild (lien direct) | Apple's latest iOS update fixes 3 security holes that can be used for jailbreaking and are apparently already being exploited in the wild. |
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2016-08-25 22:57:41 | Anatomy of a cryptographic collision – the “Sweet32†attack (lien direct) | Sweet32 is a way to attack encrypted web connections by generating huge amounts of web traffic. We explain how it works. |
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2016-08-25 17:00:39 | Ghostbusters star\'s website defaced with racist and explicit images (lien direct) | Leslie Jones, star of the recent Ghostbusters film, has found herself the victim of another racist online attack.
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2016-08-25 11:21:55 | (Déjà vu) Mr. Robot eps2.6succ3ss0r.p12 – the security review (lien direct) | Let's take a look at some of the security concepts in this week's Mr. Robot episode, eps2.6succ3ss0r.p12. |
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2016-08-25 10:45:20 | Google to rate down sites with aggravating pop-up ads (lien direct) | Google's planning to penalize mobile sites that block content by placing those sites lower in site rankings. |
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2016-08-24 17:26:45 | 98 things Facebook knows about you (lien direct) | If you're going to get ads anyway...why not targeted ones? How much pigeonholing is too much? |
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2016-08-24 16:30:34 | Shock horror! Ashley Madison security was woeful, finds investigation (lien direct) | Failures in basic security on the Ashley Madison site might have led to the breach, a report finds. |
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2016-08-24 12:11:55 | “Highly invasive†plan to collect traveler social media details criticized by group (lien direct) | Plans to collect travelers' social media account information have been blasted by tech giants and human and civil rights advocates. |
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2016-08-23 17:16:54 | Epic data breach revealed, but was your password stolen? (lien direct) | Epic games has owned up to two data breaches from its online forums. One of them involves password-related data. We investigate... |
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2016-08-22 16:45:52 | Has Microsoft “broken†millions of webcams? (And how to fix yours.) (lien direct) | Windows 10 Anniversary Edition changed the programming rules for webcam apps - if your webcam isn't working any more, what can you do? |
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2016-08-19 16:44:03 | Twitter takes down 235K extremist accounts (lien direct) | Third parties say that Islamic State traffic on Twitter has plummeted by 45% over the past 2 years.  |
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2016-08-19 16:21:37 | Man hacks Android app to get free beer (lien direct) | A Polish researcher found a loyalty awards app that could be tricked into clocking up loyalty bonuses over and over again... |
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2016-08-19 10:29:04 | Why people ignore security alerts up to 87% of the time (lien direct) | A study shows that timing is key: interrupt a user while they're doing something important, and you cause a bottleneck in their brain. |
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2016-08-18 14:41:01 | NIST\'s new password rules – what you need to know (lien direct) | A lot of password rules are there simply "because we've always done it that way." NIST aims to fix that, and here's how. |
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2016-08-17 16:15:29 | Google faces legal action over data-mining emails (lien direct) | The plaintiff seeks to represent users who have never had an email account with Google |
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2016-08-16 17:15:32 | Did “The Shadow Brokers†hack NSA cyberweapons worth $500M? (lien direct) | If the total funds in the online auction hit BTC 1,000,000, then everyone gets everything for free! |
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2016-08-16 17:03:13 | US hotels hit by payment card slurping malware (lien direct) | 10 months after merchants were to assume financial responsibility if they didn't install chip readers, we're still seeing POS breaches. |
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2016-08-16 08:32:18 | “You dirty RAT†– Spy versus Spy in the cybercrime underworld (lien direct) | This crook sold booby-trapped malware so he could spy on the very crooks he sold it to. Along the way, he booby-trapped himself... |
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2016-08-15 08:50:36 | Justice by keylogger – the biter bit! [Chet Chat Podcast 250] (lien direct) | Here's our latest security podcast - ransomware, bug hunting, keyloggers and a pair of cybercrime busts. Enjoy! |
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2016-08-12 16:28:17 | Facebook rolls out code to kick the shins off Adblock Plus reblocking (lien direct) | Facebook blocks adblockers! Adblock Plus dodges! Facebook spins more code faster than you can say "sponsored ad that looks like a post!" |
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2016-08-12 11:09:21 | Exploit broker offers 2.5 times what Apple offers for serious iOS bugs (lien direct) | It's offering up to $500,000 for serious iOS bugs. |
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2016-08-12 08:10:28 | Researchers announce Linux kernel “network snooping” bug (lien direct) | This bug is a fascinating lesson in how adding restrictions with the aim of improving security may paradoxically end up reducing it. |
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2016-08-11 15:13:44 | Feds move to stop social media mockery of nursing home residents (lien direct) | Workers sharing degrading/intimate/nonconsensual photos and videos may mean facilities get fined, written up or cut from Medicare. |
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2016-08-11 09:28:53 | Facebook starts bypassing adblockers (lien direct) | Facebook wants you to choose which ads you see, provided the answer isn't "none". |
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2016-08-10 14:58:54 | Faceless recognition can identify you, even when your face is hidden (lien direct) | New research shows AI can learn to identify people by matching patterns around their heads and bodies, even when their faces are obscured. |
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2016-08-09 15:56:20 | Email: how secure is yours? [Survey] (lien direct) | We know you keep your emails secure, but how do you do it? |
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2016-08-09 10:58:25 | Blabbing on social media foils terrorists’ rocket attack plan (lien direct) | Authorities say that the alleged jihadis seem to have been radicalized over social media, specifically using Facebook.  |
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2016-08-08 15:52:13 | Tor can be cracked “like eggshells”, warns US judge (lien direct) | Cybercrime Laboratory recommends the use of Tor for securing data but Department of Justice Judge disagrees. |
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