Friend Finder Network Inc is a company that operates a wide range of 18+ services and was hacked in October of 2016 for over 400 million accounts representing 20 years of customer data which makes it by far the largest breach we have ever seen — MySpace gets 2nd place at 360 million. This event also marks the second time Friend Finder has been breached in two years, the first being around May of 2015.
- Adultfriendfinder.com : 339,774,493 users
- Cams.com : 62,668,630 users
- Penthouse.com : 7,176,877 users
- Stripshow.com : 1,423,192 users
- iCams.com : 1,135,731 users
Étiquette : privacy (Page 34 of 46)
Last week, an investigative report by journalists at the Hamburg-based German television broadcaster, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), revealed that Web of Trust Services (WoT) had been harvesting netizens’ web browsing histories through its browser add-on and then selling them to third parties.
Source : Browsers nix add-on after Web of Trust is caught selling users’ browsing histories • The Register
« Je ne crois pas que les utilisateurs aient reçu suffisamment d’informations sur ce que Facebook comptait faire de leurs données, et je ne pense pas que WhatsApp a obtenu de leur part un consentement valable pour utiliser ces informations. »
Source : Au Royaume-Uni, Facebook épinglé pour l’exploitation des données des utilisateurs de WhatsApp
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have shown that specially designed spectacle frames can fool even state-of-the-art facial recognition software. Not only can the glasses make the wearer essentially disappear to such automated systems, it can even trick them into thinking you’re someone else. By tweaking the patterns printed on the glasses, scientists were able to assume one another’s identities or make the software think they were looking at celebrities.
Source : These glasses trick facial recognition software into thinking you’re someone else – The Verge
« Les technologies employées pour ces systèmes de surveillance demeurent difficilement distinguables des moteurs de recherche commerciaux et des moyens informatiques utilisés pour le fonctionnement des réseaux sociaux les plus fréquentés », regrette le ministère de la Défense.
Les Cnil européennes ont demandé à Yahoo d’expliquer en quoi, selon lui, le programme installé sur son service Yahoo Mail qui permettait de transférer automatiquement certains messages aux services de renseignement américains était conforme au droit européen.
The hacker who stole nude photos of female celebrities in 2014 has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, officials announced on Thursday.
Ryan Collins looks like Jennifer Lawrence ?

Not at all !
Source : Hacker who stole nude photos of celebrities gets 18 months in prison | Technology | The Guardian
Critics, however, say social media monitoring is simply mass surveillance by another name. An email originating from a crime analyst in Sacramento, California, for instance, claimed the city’s police department cast a net over the entire city, capturing the social media posts of residents on a “24/7” basis.
Source : Twitter Cuts Ties with SnapTrends, a Social Media Spying Tool for Police | The Daily Dot
Welcome to Insecam project. The world biggest directory of online surveillance security cameras. Select a country to watch live street, traffic, parking, office, road, beach, earth online webcams. Now you can search live web cams around the world.
Yahoo a obtenu un brevet sur l’utilisation de caméras, micros et capteurs pour mettre aux enchères le contenu des panneaux publicitaires, en fonction de ceux qui peuvent les voir à un instant T, et de ce qu’ils se racontent.
Source : Yahoo s’imagine écouter ce que vous dites dans la rue pour afficher des pubs – Business – Numerama






