“Le 7 décembre 2020, la formation restreinte de la CNIL a sanctionné les sociétés GOOGLE LLC et GOOGLE IRELAND LIMITED d’un montant total de 100 millions d’euros d’amende, notamment pour avoir déposé des cookies publicitaires sur les ordinateurs d’utilisateurs du moteur de recherche google.fr sans consentement préalable ni information satisfaisante.”
“In an interview with DoppelPaymer, the ransomware gang confirmed that they attacked Foxconn’s North America facility on November 29th but did not attack the whole company. As part of this attack, the threat actors claim to have encrypted about 1,200 servers, stole 100 GB of unencrypted files, and deleted 20-30 TB Of backups. « We encrypted NA segment, not whole foxconn, it’s about 1200-1400 servers, and not focused on workstations. They also had about 75TB’s of misc backups, what we were able to – we destroyed (approx 20-30TB), » DoppelPayment told us about the attack. In a statement to BleepingComputer, Foxconn confirmed the attack and said they are slowly bringing their systems back into service.”
Source : Foxconn electronics giant hit by ransomware, $34 million ransom
“Uber et la conduite autonome, c’est terminé. Dans un communiqué publié le 7 décembre, la startup Aurora a annoncé l’acquisition d’Advanced Technologies Group, la division d’Uber dédiée au développement de la conduite autonome. Ces derniers mois, la structure n’a pas été épargnée entre l’accident mortel pendant un test et la condamnation d’un ingénieur accusé de vol industriel et de pratiques déloyales pour embaucher ses anciens collègues de Google (très investi dans la conduite autonome).”
Source : Après plusieurs désastres, Uber met un « stop » à la conduite autonome
“Venntel, a government contractor that sells location data of smartphones to U.S. law enforcement agencies including ICE, CBP, and the FBI, gathers information through a highly complex supply chain of advertising firms, data resellers, and ultimately innocuous-looking apps installed on peoples’ phones around the world, according to a cache of documents obtained by Norwegian media organization NRK and shared with Motherboard.”
Source : How an ICE Contractor Tracks Phones Around the World
“It might be too early to know whether a widespread, permanent shift away from major outlets will last, especially given the reach of Facebook, Twitter and Fox News. While conservative threats of mass migration away from mainstream apps and news have occurred periodically, people still seem to return to the biggest platforms. Ms. Zepeda, a longtime Facebook user, said she would keep her Facebook account to maintain access to the pictures she’s uploaded over the years. But she expects to drop the social network as a daily destination, joining one of the many Facebook groups that are planning a “Mass Exit off Facebook to Parler & MeWe,” scheduled for Friday. “I’m tired of the bias towards Democrats and liberals,” she said.”
Source : How Some Conservatives Have Switched to Parler, Rumble and Newsmax – The New York Times
“Comment une telle backdoor est-elle possible alors que Tutanota se targue d’être « le service d’e-mails le plus sécurisé du monde », en proposant notamment des e-mails chiffrés de bout en bout ? L’explication est simple. La backdoor n’inspecte que les nouveaux messages entrants non chiffrés.”
Source : Le service mail « le plus sécurisé au monde » contraint d’intégrer une backdoor pour la police
“Les relations se sont détériorées en janvier 2019, raconte The Telegraph, lorsque les 35000 employés de Facebook se sont réveillés un matin pour découvrir que toutes les applications développées pour le fonctionnement interne de l’entreprise ne marchaient plus: Leurs agendas, messageries, l’horaire des navettes et même les menus de la cantine étaient devenus inaccessibles. Et le développement de nouveaux produits a dû stopper net, les versions de test ne pouvant plus être mises à l’épreuve.
Apple, révolté par la révélation que Facebook avait payé des mineurs pour installer un VPN permettant d’aspirer leurs données, avait révoqué la veille au soir, les autorisations qui permettaient aux applications IOS du réseau social de fonctionner.
Puis, avec une nouvelle riposte en début d’année, Apple annonça l’introduction de la fonctionnalité «App Tracking Transparency (ATT)», qui obligera les applications mobiles à demander aux usagers leur permission avant de les suivre à la trace, gênant ainsi la récolte des données et le placement d’annonces personnalisées. Une démarche qui ferait baisser les revenus de Facebook de 50%.”
Source : Pourquoi tant d’animosité entre Facebook et Apple? – Tendances Web
“The policies are significantly stronger than Facebook’s typical rules against misinformation, under which false claims are marked as such and suppressed by the curation algorithms, but are not removed from Facebook and Instagram entirely. The distinction, the company said, was because misinformation about Covid and Covid vaccinations “could lead to imminent physical harm”.”
The topic has a personal connection for the Facebook founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. His philanthropic organisation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has embarked on a flagship effort to “cure all disease”, with a number of avenues of research being pursued, including a specific focus on vaccinations, through the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.
Source : Facebook to remove false claims about Covid vaccines | Technology | The Guardian
“My advice is simply to take note of your emotional reaction to each headline, sound bite or statistical claim. Is it joy, rage, triumph? Fine. But having noticed it, keep thinking. You may find clarity emerges once your emotions have been acknowledged. So what do puzzles, poker, and misinformation have in common? Some puzzles — and some poker hands — require enormous intellectual resources to navigate, and the same is true of certain subtle statistical fallacies. But much of the time we fool ourselves in simple ways and for simple reasons. Slow down, calm down, and the battle for truth is already half won.”
Source : What puzzles and poker teach us about misinformation | Financial Times
“Writing off traffic to these widely-used sites and services as “illicit” is a generalization that demonizes people and organizations who choose technology that allows them to protect their privacy and circumvent censorship. In a world of increasing surveillance capitalism and internet censorship, online privacy is necessary for many of us to exercise our human rights to freely access information, share our ideas, and communicate with one another. Incorrectly identifying all onion service traffic as “illicit” harms the fight to protect encryption and benefits the powers that be that are trying to weaken or entirely outlaw strong privacy technology.Secondly, we look forward to hearing the researchers describe their methodology in more detail, so the scientific community has the possibility to assess whether their approach is accurate and safe. The copy of the paper provided does not outline their methodology, so there is no way for the Tor Project or other researchers to assess the accuracy of their findings.”
Source : Does Tor provide more benefit or harm? New paper says it depends | Ars Technica
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