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2016-09-21 12:01:10 |
New guidelines: cybersecurity, privacy and your self-driving car (lien direct) |
The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has just issued its eagerly-awaited "guidance" for self-driving and "highly automated" vehicles. |
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2016-09-21 11:16:59 |
Hackers take over Tesla Model S while car is moving (lien direct) |
First the Jeep Cherokee, now researchers have hacked into the Tesla Model S's in-car web browser to control the car remotely. |
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2016-09-20 15:56:20 |
House panel looking into Reddit post linked to Clinton\'s deleted email (lien direct) |
A Redditor submitted a request 2 years ago, seeking advice on how to strip out a "VERY VIP" email address "from a bunch of archived email." |
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2016-09-20 13:29:24 |
Student cybervandal earns $300,000 for hacking US Airlines (lien direct) |
The student who formerly hacked a rival school is now getting $300,000 worth of air miles from United Airlines' Bug Bounty Program. |
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2016-09-20 12:52:04 |
Maker of smart vibrator sued for snooping on customers\' use (lien direct) |
We probably don't want strangers to know whether we prefer the settings pulse, wave, echo, peak and/or "cha cha cha." Whatever those are. |
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2016-09-20 10:40:58 |
Robot arrested for allegedly recording voters at a political rally (lien direct) |
The Promobot IR77, which had previously been re-programmed twice for mutinous behavior, did not put up any resistance when removed by police. |
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2016-09-20 08:59:19 |
How one man could have deleted any Facebook page (lien direct) |
Arun Sureshkumar netted himself a $16,000 bug bounty for a zero-day vulnerability in Facebook Business Manager. |
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2016-09-19 15:56:35 |
FBI or no FBI – how one man says he can crack an iPhone for less than $100 (lien direct) |
The FBI said it wasn't possible but a University of Cambridge researcher has proved them wrong. |
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2016-09-19 15:01:05 |
324,000 payment cards breached, CVVs included, source still unknown! (lien direct) |
When you decide to add debugging logs to your payment application, the PCI DSS rules about what you are allowed to store DO NOT CHANGE! |
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2016-09-19 14:45:40 |
Bullocks need privacy too! Google Street View blurs ruminant\'s face (lien direct) |
It's not a cow. It's a bullock. We know that because it was a nude photo. Would that make it unacceptable on Facebook? |
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2016-09-19 14:22:14 |
Mooncake thieves fired from Alibaba\'s infosec department (lien direct) |
Mooncakes: they're like Christmas fruitcakes, except that the recipients actually eat them. |
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2016-09-19 14:13:26 |
Password-protect your Wi-Fi hotspots and ask for user details too, rules ECJ (lien direct) |
The ECJ has ruled that Wi-Fi hotspot operators aren't liable for copyright infringements, but they may have to demand users' identities and password-protect their networks. |
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2016-09-19 11:16:24 |
Facebook and Twitter team up with news orgs to help stop hoax news (lien direct) |
Social media giants are uniting with traditional media, including the New York Times, to stop fake news from cluttering your news feeds. |
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2016-09-19 10:31:50 |
Science news journal EurekAlert down after hack (lien direct) |
Hackers targeted the website's username and passwords and published two embargoed press releases early. |
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2016-09-16 16:16:33 |
Teen sues parents over embarrassing childhood photos on Facebook (lien direct) |
Is this the beginning of privacy-conscious adults fighting back against parents posting childhood images on social media? |
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2016-09-16 12:39:38 |
FBI Director James Comey wants you to cover your webcam (lien direct) |
Director of the FBI James Comey famously puts tape over his webcam, now he wants you to do it too |
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2016-09-15 16:57:14 |
Can you stay anonymous by hiding your face? (lien direct) |
What if you don't just pixelate or blur your face in a photo, but block it out with a solid rectangle? Will you go unrecognised? |
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2016-09-15 12:54:30 |
Google offers $200,000 for Android-busting exploit (lien direct) |
Google has come up with a big-bucks exploit-finding content for Android... with an interesting twist. |
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2016-09-15 11:52:25 |
Will Congress ever vote on the “The Stop Mass Hacking Act� (lien direct) |
The clock is ticking, Congress is busy getting reelected and there are only 75 days left |
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2016-09-15 11:06:56 |
Mr. Robot eps2.9pyth0n-pt1.p7z – the security review (lien direct) |
Let's take a look at the security concepts in the first half of the season 2 finale |
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2016-09-14 16:41:42 |
AdBlock Plus launches its ad-selling platform (lien direct) |
The company has rolled the dice on its relationship with both users and publishers |
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2016-09-14 13:19:23 |
Pay-to-click ad service hacked, 6.6M plaintext passwords dumped (lien direct) |
It was 20 years ago today, no, make that 40, that Sergeant Pepper taught us not to store plaintext passwords... |
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2016-09-14 11:04:40 |
Instagram users to take control over abusive comments (lien direct) |
The photo and video app now allows users to control and filter comments to thwart online nastiness. |
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2016-09-13 23:36:39 |
Will iOS 10, “the biggest release of iOS ever,†brick your device? (lien direct) |
Apple's security updates page shows iOS 10, followed almost at once by 10.0.1. If you didn't update within the first hour, are you OK now? |
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2016-09-13 15:59:09 |
How Google Play tracks you even if your other apps don\'t (lien direct) |
Want to use Android's per-app permissions to let your GPS app read your location while keeping Google Play off your tail? You can't. |
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2016-09-13 15:52:04 |
9/11 hoax story tops Facebook Trending Topics (lien direct) |
Was Facebook's choice to replace its editorial team with algorithms an oversight? |
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2016-09-13 15:30:22 |
Could a phone steal a secret product prototype off your 3D printer? (lien direct) |
Researchers claim to be able to reconstruct the designs you're printing using the electrical and audio emanations from your 3D printer. |
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2016-09-13 15:16:01 |
Kingpin Denial of Service website vDOS gets taken out by hacker (lien direct) |
The booter site "responsible for a majority of the DDoS attacks" has been knocked out |
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2016-09-13 11:10:22 |
Mr. Robot eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx – the security review (lien direct) |
We're looking at how Mr Robot's treatment of security stacked up in this week's episode! |
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2016-09-12 14:39:36 |
4.5 million web servers have private keys that are publicly known! (lien direct) |
Web security uses cryptographic keypairs called public and private keys. See if you can guess which one is supposed to be kept private... |
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2016-09-12 13:51:03 |
14-year-old sues Facebook over nude photo posted to “shame†site (lien direct) |
The girl's attorney said that Facebook should have made preventing republishing a "red-line" issue |
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2016-09-12 13:33:56 |
The US gets its first Chief Information Security Officer (lien direct) |
Touhill will head up programs designed to protect US government networks and critical infrastructure |
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2016-09-12 11:55:02 |
Scammer unmasked by friend\'s poor Facebook privacy (lien direct) |
The $500 gift card scammer begged his victim not to tell his mother |
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2016-09-09 15:40:04 |
Google to slap warnings on non-HTTPS sites (lien direct) |
HTTP sites, Google's coming for you with its red "Not Secure" paint brush: exclamation mark, triangle and all! |
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2016-09-09 13:12:36 |
Scammers sent to the slammer for romance and secret shopping fraud (lien direct) |
The 7 defendants who fooled victims through online dating, job scams and check fraud were sentenced by the US Department of Justice |
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2016-09-08 15:42:28 |
Apple prematurely tweets iPhone 7 details ahead of launch (lien direct) |
"THIS IS WHY WE DIDN'T HAVE A TWITTER ACCOUNT" said one Apple developer. |
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2016-09-08 12:45:23 |
Cryptomining malware on NAS servers – is one of them yours? (lien direct) |
A new research paper by SophosLabs uncovers how NAS servers are being used to distribute Mal/Miner-C malware. |
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2016-09-08 12:28:27 |
Would you hand over your social media account details for a new job? (lien direct) |
The Job Index wants you to log into your social media accounts to send recruiters a report on your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn personas. |
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2016-09-08 10:38:06 |
Politician\'s password accidentally tweeted to thousands (lien direct) |
Owen Smith's team reveal that they're just as bad at choosing passwords as everyone else. |
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2016-09-07 15:52:18 |
Traffic sign \'hacked\' to warn about zombie genitals (lien direct) |
The sign was either tampered with, or Ottawa needs to stockpile food for the incursion of the randy undead. |
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2016-09-07 11:44:35 |
Playmate\'s body-shaming target – a woman in her 70s – comes forward (lien direct) |
If prosecutors go after Dani Mathers, she'll face up to 6 months in jail for sharing an intimate image of the woman while she showered. |
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2016-09-07 09:48:31 |
Can you trust Tor\'s hidden service directories? (lien direct) |
Researchers have revealed a new vulnerability in the design of Tor, the world's favourite weapons-grade privacy tool. |
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2016-09-07 09:20:47 |
Brazzers breached: 800,000 usernames and passwords for porn site exposed (lien direct) |
Another day, another data breach to report. And another opportunity for some folks somewhere to be embarrassed by the exposure of their intimate, umm, preferences. |
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2016-09-06 15:51:21 |
Obama warns of hackers creating cyber \'Wild Wild West\' (lien direct) |
If countries don't start acting responsibly with cyber weapons, the arms race could turn into a free-for-all, said President Obama. |
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2016-09-06 15:03:10 |
More plaintext passwords leaked, nearly 100 MILLION of them! (lien direct) |
Rambler is the latest company whose records were hacked and now leaked, including plaintext passwords for each account. |
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2016-09-06 13:48:00 |
Man arrested after using Wanted poster as his Facebook profile pic (lien direct) |
Mack Yearwood's picture came from a “Wanted of the Week†poster. |
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2016-09-06 10:38:17 |
Hackers “find Twitter exploit†and resurrect banned accounts (lien direct) |
Suspended Twitter accounts, including @Hitler, were temporarily reactivated by hacking group that claims to have discovered a security hole |
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2016-09-05 15:59:09 |
More IoT insecurity: the routers that take instructions from anyone (lien direct) |
Calling all IoT programmers! There's not much point in having an encrypted connection if you're talking to a crook at the other end... |
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2016-09-05 11:14:15 |
Google Chrome fixes serious vulnerabilities, thanks to bug fighters (lien direct) |
Thanks to the work of security researchers, the latest release of Chrome patched a number of high-severity vulnerabilities. |
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2016-09-05 08:57:06 |
Monday review – the hot 18 stories of the week (lien direct) |
From the fake news stories trending on Facebook to the Dropbox hack and much more! |
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