A group of researchers have demonstrated how to track users with nothing more than their remaining battery power, which could compromise privacy
Source : How your smartphone’s battery life can be used to invade your privacy
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The “BeNews” app is a backdoor app that uses the name of defunct news site “BeNews” to appear legitimate. We found the backdoor’s source code in the leak, including a document that teaches customers how to use it. Based on these, we believe that the Hacking Team provided the app to customers to be used as a lure to download RCSAndroid malware on a target’s Android device.
Source : Fake News App in Hacking Team Dump Designed to Bypass Google Play
At least 70 members of the password-protected site, Darkode, were charged, arrested or searched in a crackdown that included law enforcement agencies in 20 nations, United States officials said.
Source : Authorities Shut Down Darkode, a Marketplace for Stolen Personal Data – The New York Times
In the wake of recent hacking scares, thefts and attacks, we take a look at all the ways hackers will potentially kill you in the future. Don’t panic.
Source : All the ways hackers will try to kill you in the future — Hopes&Fears — flow « Technology »
The (ironically-named) Hacking Team is an Italian security firm with a history of supplying surveillance technology to governments around the world, including some unpleasant regimes. It’s now been hacked itself.
The Federal Trade Commission revealed charges today against an Ohio man who created an app that secretly used consumers’ phones to mine second-tier cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin, Litecoin, and Quarkcoin.
Source : Busted: App maker who’d hijack your phone to secretly mine Dogecoin | Ars Technica
Les juristes du service de renseignement ont exhumé un texte portant sur… le télégraphe, qui ne dit mot du «reverse engineering».
Source : Les dérives des espions britanniques
Greetings citizens of Canada, we are Anonymous. Today, this 17th of June 2015 we launched an attack against the Canadian senate and government of Canada websites in protest against the recent passing of bill C-51.
Source : Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ claims credit for federal cyber attacks | Ottawa Citizen
Les adresses e-mail des comptes LastPass, les indices de mots de passe, le salage , et le hachage d’authentification ont été compromis.
It raises troubling questions about the reliability of the entire digital certificate mechanism that Microsoft, Apple, and most other software makers rely on to establish the legitimacy of applications and drivers.
Source : Stuxnet spawn infected Kaspersky using stolen Foxconn digital certificates | Ars Technica