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
Law enforcement face recognition networks include over 117 million American adults
Source : Perpetual Line Up – Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America
Depuis 1991, avec le développement des communications sans fil de proximité, le périmètre de la «voie hertzienne» s’est très considérablement étendu. Techniquement, la formule peut recouvrir ce qui transite entre un téléphone portable et une antenne relais, un ordinateur et une borne wi-fi, un opérateur internet et un satellite, une carte bancaire sans contact et un lecteur… C’est bien ce qu’a fait valoir ce mardi l’avocat des trois associations, Me Patrice Spinosi, pour qui «ce sont plusieurs milliards de données qui sont susceptibles d’être concernés».
Source : (1) Ecoutes : une brèche légale devant le Conseil constitutionnel – Libération
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
Source : Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence – sources
The botnets are made up of tens of thousands of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including unsecure routers, digital video recorders (DVRs) and connected IP cameras. Such IoT machines have been shown widely vulnerable to simple hacks, meaning the bot masters are easily able to build up vast networks of compromised systems to send extraordinary volumes of traffic to a chosen target.
Source : How Hacked Cameras Are Helping Launch The Biggest Attacks The Internet Has Ever Seen
An infamous cybercriminal named “Peace” said on a website that he was selling credentials of 200 million Yahoo users from 2012 on the dark web for just over $1,800. The data allegedly included user names, easily decrypted passwords, personal information like birth dates and other email addresses.
Source : Yahoo is expected to confirm massive data breach, impacting hundreds of millions of users – Recode
A Computer Science student and security enthusiast from Netherlands who own a Xiaomi Mi4 smartphone started an investigation to know the purpose of a mysterious pre-installed app, dubbed AnalyticsCore.apk, that runs 24×7 in the background and reappeared even if you delete it.
Source : Xiaomi Can Silently Install Any App On Your Android Phone Using A Backdoor
Un algorithme peut-il prédire les crimes ? Les forces de police américaines s’équipent depuis plusieurs années de logiciels censés détecter le lieu des futurs crimes et délits. Leur succès tient pourtant davantage du marketing que de leur efficacité prédictive.
Comment signaler la présence d’une créature sur les sites concernés si l’utilisation de Pokémon Go y est formellement interdite ?
Source : Quand Pokémon Go inquiète l’armée française – Pop culture – Numerama
The USB Killer’s website claims it will destroy 95% of devices it’s inserted into. With that kind of destructive capability, one has to wonder how many of these sticks will actually be bought by security experts, and how many by pranksters and malicious individuals looking to destroy someone else’s equipment.
Source : Remember the laptop-destroying ‘USB Killer?’ Now you can buy one
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