Auteur/autrice : noflux (Page 63 of 614)

11 mars 2020 / noflux

“Yodlee, the largest financial data broker in the U.S., sells data pulled from the bank and credit card transactions of tens of millions of Americans to investment and research firms, detailing where and when people shopped and how much they spent. The company claims that the data is anonymous, but a confidential Yodlee document obtained by Motherboard indicates individual users could be unmasked.”

Source : Leaked Document Shows How Big Companies Buy Credit Card Data on Millions of Americans – VICE

10 mars 2020 / noflux

“Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions of people who have installed popular VPN and ad-blocking apps for Android and iOS, a BuzzFeed News investigation has found. These apps, which don’t disclose their connection to the company or reveal that they feed user data to Sensor Tower’s products, have more than 35 million downloads.”

Source : Sensor Tower Secretly Owns Ad Blocker And VPN Apps That Collect User Data

4 mars 2020 / noflux

Selon une étude réalisée en 2018 par l’éducation nationale, 9 % des lycéens affirment avoir été « victimes de vidéos, de photos ou de rumeurs humiliantes sur Internet ».

“Contactée, l’éducation nationale invoque un « protocole de prise en charge ». « Quand un élève est harcelé, il peut aller voir la personne en qui il a confiance », assure-t-on au ministère. Problème : dans les faits, le revenge porn n’est souvent pas considéré comme du harcèlement stricto sensu. Le protocole idoine n’est donc pas activé : « Il intervient s’il y a une notion de répétition, par exemple si des photos intimes étaient diffusées à plusieurs reprises », précise Olivier Raluy, CPE dans un collège et secrétaire national du Syndicat national des enseignements de second degré (SNES-FSU).”

Source : Le « revenge porn », pratique « banale » et hors de contrôle chez les élèves

3 mars 2020 / noflux

HackerOne rewards bughunter who found critical security hole in... HackerOne

“Vulnerability-reporting platform HackerOne has come clean about a critical security flaw on its own website that could be used to expose the email addresses of users. A researcher going by the name of “msdian7” revealed how an attacker could exploit the site’s project invite feature to uncover the email addresses of other users”

Source : HackerOne rewards bughunter who found critical security hole in… HackerOne

26 février 2020 / noflux

“An analysis of millions of tweets from around the period when Donald Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement found that bots tended to applaud the president for his actions and spread misinformation about the science. The study of Twitter bots and climate was undertaken by Brown University and has yet to be published.”

Source : Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots | Technology | The Guardian

25 février 2020 / noflux

MIT researchers used a machine-learning algorithm to identify a drug called halicin that kills many strains of bacteria. Halicin (top row) prevented the development of antibiotic resistance in E. coli, while ciprofloxacin (bottom row) did not.

“Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world’s most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains that are resistant to all known antibiotics. It also cleared infections in two different mouse models. The computer model, which can screen more than a hundred million chemical compounds in a matter of days, is designed to pick out potential antibiotics that kill bacteria using different mechanisms than those of existing drugs.”

Source : Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic | MIT News

22 février 2020 / noflux

“Google notes in its own AI principles that algorithms and datasets can reinforce bias: ‘We will seek to avoid unjust impacts on people, particularly those related to sensitive characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, income, sexual orientation, ability, and political or religious belief.’ Google invited affected developers to comment on its discussion forums. Only one developer had commented at the time of writing, and complained the change was down to ‘political correctness.’ ‘I don’t think political correctness has room in APIs,’ the person wrote. ‘If I can 99% of the times identify if someone is a man or woman, then so can the algorithm. You don’t want to do it? Companies will go to other services.’”

Source : Google AI will no longer use gender labels like ‘woman’ or ‘man’ on images of people to avoid bias

20 février 2020 / noflux

“Les Nations Unies disposent d’un statut diplomatique particulier qui leur offre « l’immunité contre toute forme de procédure légale ». Ils ne sont donc pas obligés de divulguer leurs failles de sécurité ni d’informer les potentielles victimes. Ces obligations, légales pour la majorité des entreprises et des institutions depuis le RGPD, ne sont donc que des considérations éthiques pour l’ONU. Résultat, le porte-parole de l’ONU confirme que seules les équipes informatiques internes des deux bureaux concernés ont été informées de la faille.”

Source : L’ONU a gardé sous silence l’une des plus grandes cyberattaques de son histoire – Cyberguerre

20 février 2020 / noflux

“A pop-up would appear, asking about a patient’s level of pain. Then, a drop-down menu would list treatments ranging from a referral to a pain specialist to a prescription for an opioid painkiller. Click a button, and the program would create a treatment plan. From 2016 to spring 2019, the alert went off about 230 million times. The tool existed thanks to a secret deal. Its maker, a software company called Practice Fusion, was paid by a major opioid manufacturer to design it in an effort to boost prescriptions for addictive pain pills — even though overdose deaths had almost tripled during the previous 15 years, creating a public-health disaster. The software was used by tens of thousands of doctors’ offices.”

Source : In secret deal with drugmaker, health-records tool pushed opioids – Los Angeles Times

20 février 2020 / noflux

“Le principal danger qui guette les États providence numérisés? C’est qu’ils servent uniquement les intérêts d’une élite d’officiels et de compagnies de la tech. Tandis que, dans le même temps, une sous-classe infortunée, placée sous surveillance constante, vivra une dystopie numérique dans laquelle la moindre déviance sera détectée et punie.”

Source : «Les Pays-Bas bâtissent un Etat de surveillance pour les pauvres» – Le Temps

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