«Intensive survey research, data modelling and performance-optimising algorithms were used to target 10,000 different ads to different audiences in the months leading up to the election. The ads were viewed billions of times, according to the presentation».
Source : Leaked: Cambridge Analytica’s blueprint for Trump victory | UK news | The Guardian
«Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who orchestrated the harvesting of Facebook data, had previously unreported ties to a Russian university, including a teaching position and grants for research into the social media network, the Observer has discovered. Cambridge Analytica, the data firm he worked with – which funded the project to turn tens of millions of Facebook profiles into a unique political weapon – also attracted interest from a key Russian firm with links to the Kremlin».
Source : Cambridge Analytica: links to Moscow oil firm and St Petersburg university | News | The Guardian
«Collins welcomed the cooperation, but noted that Facebook has still not provided all the information it promised. “I look forward to them sharing with us, amongst other information: the exact number of accounts that they have suspended; how they are resourcing their fight against bots; their methodology of how they identify fake accounts; and how they determine what country those accounts come from».
«The Russian meddling machine has been focusing on Italy in recent months, conducting a disinformation campaign on the migration situation in order to drum up support for radical parties ahead of the general elections scheduled for Sunday».
«Ce pourrait être la cyberattaque la plus importante ayant visé l’Allemagne. Selon des sources proches des services allemands de renseignement, citées par l’agence de presse DPA, mercredi 28 février, des hackeurs russes se seraient infiltrés dans le réseau informatique de l’administration fédérale, et ce pendant au moins un an».
«Most Americans are understandably shocked by what they view as an unprecedented attack on our political system. But intelligence veterans, and scholars who have studied covert operations, have a different, and quite revealing, view. ‘If you ask an intelligence officer, did the Russians break the rules or do something bizarre, the answer is no, not at all,” said Steven L. Hall, who retired in 2015 after 30 years at the C.I.A., where he was the chief of Russian operations. The United States “absolutely” has carried out such election influence operations historically, he said, “and I hope we keep doing it.’»
Source : Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in Elections. We Do It, Too. – The New York Times
«In this case, Schafer suspects the use of pro-gun control hashtags like #guncontrolnow are being used sarcastically, particularly since they’re often paired with the anti-gun control links. Since the Twitter accounts Hamilton 68 tracks often target right-wing audiences, Schafer believes the trolls are using the message to attract more eyeballs. ‘That allows them to then push content that is more directly related to the Kremlin’s geopolitical agenda’»
Source : Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting | WIRED
«Mise à jour : Google France nous indique qu’il ne s’agirait en aucun cas d’un “Google bomb” ou de quelque attaque que ce soit, mais d’un simple “problème d’association” entre les titres et les affiches, quand bien même le hasard aurait mal fait les choses».
Source : [MàJ] Black Panther victime d’un « Google bombing » raciste | Journal du Geek
«The Uber HQ team overseeing Ripley could remotely change passwords and otherwise lock up data on company-owned smartphones, laptops, and desktops as well as shut down the devices. This routine was initially called the unexpected visitor protocol. Employees aware of its existence eventually took to calling it Ripley, after Sigourney Weaver’s flamethrower-wielding hero in the Alien movies. The nickname was inspired by a Ripley line in Aliens, after the acid-blooded extraterrestrials easily best a squad of ground troops. ‘Nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.’»
Source : Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark – Bloomberg
«We present a method to create universal, robust, targeted adversarial image patches in the real world. The patches are universal because they can be used to attack any scene, robust because they work under a wide variety of transformations, and targeted because they can cause a classifier to output any target class. These adversarial patches can be printed, added to any scene, photographed, and presented to image classifiers; even when the patches are small, they cause the classifiers to ignore the other items in the scene and report a chosen target class».
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