“A huge Eufy privacy breach has resulted in both live and recorded camera feeds being shown to complete strangers. They also have complete access to the account, including control of pan-and-tilt cameras where fitted. ”
“Dans un tweet publié le 20 décembre, l’équipe derrière PUBG Mobile annonçait avoir banni très exactement 2 127 454 comptes en une semaine. Du 7 au 13 mai derniers ? 1 481 239 bannissements de plus, peut-on lire dans un tweet partagé le 16 mai. On parle ici d’un jeu disponible sur iOS et Android, qui comptait déjà plus de 400 millions d’utilisateurs en juin 2019 (selon PCGamesN). À l’instar de PUBG Mobile, Call of Duty : Warzone souffre de sa popularité : plus il y a de joueurs, plus les risques de voir des tricheurs est grand.”
“We present an approach to enhancing the realism of synthetic images. The images are enhanced by a convolutional network that leverages intermediate representations produced by conventional rendering pipelines. The network is trained via a novel adversarial objective, which provides strong supervision at multiple perceptual levels. We analyze scene layout distributions in commonly used datasets and find that they differ in important ways. We hypothesize that this is one of the causes of strong artifacts that can be observed in the results of many prior methods. To address this we propose a new strategy for sampling image patches during training. We also introduce multiple architectural improvements in the deep network modules used for photorealism enhancement. We confirm the benefits of our contributions in controlled experiments and report substantial gains in stability and realism in comparison to recent image-to-image translation methods and a variety of other baselines.”
« We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for our motives, » it said in a statement posted on its website. « Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society. »
The group seemed somewhat surprised that its actions resulted in closing a major pipeline and suggested that perhaps it would avoid such targets in the future.
“It seems that in the United States, at least, app developers and advertisers who rely on targeted mobile advertising for revenue are seeing their worst fears realized: Analytics data published this week suggests that US users choose to opt out of tracking 96 percent of the time in the wake of iOS 14.5.”
“Et dans ce domaine, les 15 membres qui ont composé cet organe temporaire jugent qu’il faudra en passer par une meilleure formation des forces de l’ordre vis-à-vis du droit applicable. En effet, le rapport considère qu’il y a un important travail de pédagogie à faire à l’égard des policiers et des gendarmes pour leur rappeler qu’ils n’ont pas le droit d’interdire au public, et encore moins aux journalistes, de les filmer.”
Ces multiples atouts ont leurs limites. « L’encyclopédie fonctionne parce qu’il y a plus de gens bien intentionnés que de gens malhonnêtes. Mais si le ratio s’inverse, les bénévoles qui agissent sur leur temps libre auront du mal à maintenir Wikipédia en état », alerte Pierre-Yves Beaudouin. Si certaines pages se prêtent mal aux tripotages, les angles morts restent légion.
“Quels que soient les axes de développement retenus, une chose est claire aux yeux de Florence G. Sell, professeur en droit privé à l’Université de Lorraine : « la mise à disposition des décisions de justice couplée aux progrès des outils du Big Data va permettre une vision beaucoup plus globale et approfondie du fonctionnement de la justice ». Pour l’experte, l’institution judiciaire a tout intérêt à se saisir de ces outils pour améliorer sa qualité et son efficacité. Et si elle ne le fait pas,« d’autres acteurs, tels les avocats ou les startups le feront : ce seront alors eux qui seront à la pointe d’une évolution de toute façon irrémédiable. »”
“Given the number of opportunities present, we found that it’s possible to execute arbitrary code on a Cellebrite machine simply by including a specially formatted but otherwise innocuous file in any app on a device that is subsequently plugged into Cellebrite and scanned. There are virtually no limits on the code that can be executed. For example, by including a specially formatted but otherwise innocuous file in an app on a device that is then scanned by Cellebrite, it’s possible to execute code that modifies not just the Cellebrite report being created in that scan, but also all previous and future generated Cellebrite reports from all previously scanned devices and all future scanned devices in any arbitrary way (inserting or removing text, email, photos, contacts, files, or any other data), with no detectable timestamp changes or checksum failures. This could even be done at random, and would seriously call the data integrity of Cellebrite’s reports into question.”