Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply before their physical appeal is judged by the existing user base, who vote on who is allowed in to the “elite” club based on looks alone. All of this, of course, is supposed to remain confidential. But much of that supposedly-private information is now public, thanks to the leak of a database containing sensitive data of 1.1 million BeautifulPeople.com users.
Étiquette : vulnerability (Page 36 of 41)
The United States has opened a new line of combat against the Islamic State, directing the military’s six-year-old Cyber Command for the first time to mount computer-network attacks that are now being used alongside more traditional weapons.
Source : U.S. Cyberattacks Target ISIS in a New Line of Combat – The New York Times
Hackers can read text messages, listen to phone calls and track mobile phone users’ locations with just the knowledge of their phone number using a vulnerability in the worldwide mobile phone network infrastructure.
Source : SS7 hack explained: what can you do about it? | Technology | The Guardian
When it comes to doing the right thing in difficult situations, BlackBerry’s guiding principle has been to do what is right for the citizenry, within legal and ethical boundaries. We have long been clear in our stance that tech companies as good corporate citizens should comply with reasonable lawful access requests. I have stated before that we are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good.
Source : Lawful Access, Corporate Citizenship and Doing What’s Right | Inside BlackBerry
Nos serveurs sont attaqués des dizaines de fois par jour. Tous les trois mois environ, un hacker trouve le moyen de déjouer les systèmes de sécurité. La dernière intrusion date d’il y a une semaine. Des pirates sont parvenus à véhiculer un malware au travers du nom de domaine 20minutes.ch. Un fichier Flash infecté en était à l’origine. Ce script tentait d’installer le virus d’un site tiers grâce aux lacunes des ordinateurs des utilisateurs. Ce logiciel malveillant, le cheval de Troie Gozi, a finalement été retiré par notre service informatique.
Source : 20 Minutes
Private files belonging to America’s biggest police union, including the names and addresses of officers, forum posts critical of Barack Obama, and controversial contracts made with city authorities, were posted online after a hacker breached its website.
Source : Hackers post private files of America’s biggest police union | US news | The Guardian
The attack comes five weeks after Ukraine’s power grid was successfully disrupted in what’s believed to be the world’s first-known hacker-caused power outage. Researchers still aren’t sure if the malware known as BlackEnergy was the direct cause of the blackout, but they have confirmed the malicious package infected at least three of the regional power authorities that were involved in the outage. Researchers have since said the attack was extremely well coordinated.
Source : Israel’s electric authority hit by “severe” hack attack (Updated) | Ars Technica
In 2015, the FBI seized a Tor-hidden child-porn website known as Playpen and allowed it to run for 13 days so that the FBI could deploy malware in order to identify and prosecute the website’s users. That malware, known in FBI-speak as a « network investigative technique, » was authorized by a federal court in Virginia in February 2015.
Source : After FBI briefly ran Tor-hidden child-porn site, investigations went global | Ars Technica
Les gouvernements se réunissent jeudi 12 novembre à Genève pour débattre de l’avenir des « robots tueurs ». Amnesty International demande l’ouverture d’un processus formel de négociations en vue d’instaurer une interdiction au niveau mondial des robots tueurs létaux et à létalité réduite, à la fois sur les champs de bataille et lors des opérations de maintien de l’ordre. Voici 10 raisons qui rendent cette interdiction essentielle.
Source : 10 raisons pour lesquelles il faut interdire les «robots tueurs» | Amnesty International
Following the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night, the majority of the world recoiled in horror. But individuals active within Gamergate – either a movement dedicated to harassing women and what the group calls Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) in the games industry and/or campaigning for better transparency and ethical standards within the media, depending on who you ask – had a different reaction. They used this tragedy to present a Gamergate critic, Canadian journalist Veerender Jubbal, as one of the Paris terrorists.



