Étiquette : vulnerability (Page 6 of 40)

Everyone Says Social Media Is Bad for Teens. Proving It Is Another Thing

17 juin 2023 /

“They agreed on a few steps parents could take now: Set limits, especially around bedtime. Don’t give a young teenager a smartphone right away. Start with a smartwatch or a phone without internet. Talk to your teenagers: Have them show you what they’re seeing, ask them how it makes them feel and discuss privacy and safety. Make a family screen time plan that takes into account which activities increase stress versus provide long-term satisfaction. Model responsible internet use yourself. It’s not about monitoring certain apps, said Caleb T. Carr, a professor of communication at Illinois State: “Instead, parents should engage with their kids. Just like parents did pre-social media, talk about being good humans and citizens, talk about respect for others and themselves, and talk about how their day was.””

Source : Everyone Says Social Media Is Bad for Teens. Proving It Is Another Thing. – The New York Times

A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon

14 juin 2023 /

“This incident has led me to question my relationship with Amazon. After nearly a decade of loyalty, I’ve been given a harsh reminder that a misunderstanding can lead to such drastic measures. It seems more reasonable to handle such issues in a more compartmentalized way, rather than a blanket shutdown of all services. Due to this experience, I am seriously considering discontinuing my use of Amazon Echo devices and will caution others about this incident. This ordeal has made a case for a more personalized home assistant system, perhaps utilizing Raspberry Pi devices scattered around the house.”

Source : A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon | by Brandon Jackson | Jun, 2023 | Medium

Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

4 juin 2023 /

“Security experts have long said that any potential backdoors into encrypted communications or ways to decrypt services would undermine the overall security of the encryption. If law enforcement officials have a way to decipher messages, criminal hackers or those working on behalf of governments could exploit the same capabilities.”

Source : Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption | WIRED

Story Killers: Des clients de hackers démasqués par des données bancaires suisses

21 mai 2023 /

Un des deux paiements d’Arcanum à la société de «Jorge».

“Aujourd’hui, la question se pose de savoir si la Suisse aurait pu arrêter Jorge il y a huit ans déjà. Les fonctionnaires auraient-ils pu empêcher l’homme de continuer à manipuler des processus démocratiques? À l’époque, les autorités helvétiques disposaient des données bancaires de Jorge. La cellule enquête de Tamedia a analysé en détail ces documents bancaires issus des dossiers de procédure de 2015. Résultat: la clientèle de Jorge a transféré des sommes considérables sur le compte de sa société auprès de la banque tessinoise BSI. Rien qu’en 2014, l’équivalent de près de 850’000 francs ont été versés sur ce compte. De nombreux virements auraient pu éveiller les soupçons, comme le montrent les exemples qui suivent.”

Source : Enquête internationale – Story Killers: Des clients de hackers démasqués par des données bancaires suisses | 24 heures

PyPI temporarily pauses new users, projects amid high volume of malware

21 mai 2023 /

pypi

“As of today, the Python Package Index, more commonly known as PyPI, has temporarily suspended new user registrations and project creations until further notice. « New user and new project name registration on PyPI is temporarily suspended, » states an incident notice posted by PyPI admins today, May 20th. « The volume of malicious users and malicious projects being created on the index in the past week has outpaced our ability to respond to it in a timely fashion, especially with multiple PyPI administrators on leave. »”

Source : PyPI temporarily pauses new users, projects amid high volume of malware

TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness

14 mai 2023 /

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“After a few hours, I had to stop. If the rapid string of sad videos made me feel bad, how would a 14-year-old feel after watching this kind of content day after day? One account is dedicated to “sad and lonely” music. Another features a teenage girl crying in every video, with statements about suicide. One is full of videos filmed in a hospital room. Each of the hospital videos contains text expressing suicidal thoughts, including, “For my final trick I shall turn into a disappointment.”
Users have developed creative ways to skirt TikTok’s content filters. For instance, since TikTok won’t allow content referencing suicide, people use a sound-alike such as “sewerslide,” or just write “attempt” and leave the rest to the viewer’s imagination. Creators of videos about disordered eating have also evaded TikTok’s filters.
Policing all the content on a service used by more than one billion monthly users is no easy task. Yet there is a difference between stamping out harmful content and promoting it. “If tech companies can’t eliminate this from their platforms, don’t create algorithms that will point kids to that information,” said Arthur C. Evans Jr., chief executive of the American Psychological Association.”

Source : TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness – WSJ

Washington annonce avoir neutralisé le logiciel espion russe baptisé « Snake »

14 mai 2023 /

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“Ce logiciel, baptisé « Snake », a permis aux services de sécurité russes (FSB) de « voler des centaines de documents sensibles dans au moins cinquante pays », en attaquant notamment les services informatiques de gouvernements, de médias ou de centres de recherche, selon un communiqué du ministère américain de la justice. « Grâce à une opération de haute technologie, qui a retourné ce logiciel malveillant russe contre lui-même, les forces de l’ordre américaines ont neutralisé l’un des outils de cyberespionnage russe les plus sophistiqués », s’est félicitée la ministre adjointe de la justice, Lisa Monaco. D’après les autorités américaines, le logiciel était guidé depuis une unité du FSB baptisée « Turla », située à Riazan, en Russie. Il pouvait identifier et voler des documents et rester non détecté de manière indéfinie. Sa spécificité : les agents de « Turla » exfiltraient ces données en utilisant le réseau mondial des ordinateurs infectés.”

Source : Washington annonce avoir neutralisé le logiciel espion russe baptisé « Snake »

The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started

14 mai 2023 /

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“It took Alex Polyakov just a couple of hours to break GPT-4. When OpenAI released the latest version of its text-generating chatbot in March, Polyakov sat down in front of his keyboard and started entering prompts designed to bypass OpenAI’s safety systems. Soon, the CEO of security firm Adversa AI had GPT-4 spouting homophobic statements, creating phishing emails, and supporting violence. Polyakov is one of a small number of security researchers, technologists, and computer scientists developing jailbreaks and prompt injection attacks against ChatGPT and other generative AI systems.
The process of jailbreaking aims to design prompts that make the chatbots bypass rules around producing hateful content or writing about illegal acts, while closely-related prompt injection attacks can quietly insert malicious data or instructions into AI models. Both approaches try to get a system to do something it isn’t designed to do.
The attacks are essentially a form of hacking—albeit unconventionally—using carefully crafted and refined sentences, rather than code, to exploit system weaknesses. While the attack types are largely being used to get around content filters, security researchers warn that the rush to roll out generative AI systems opens up the possibility of data being stolen and cybercriminals causing havoc across the web.”

Source : The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started | WIRED UK

Twitter marks dead celebrities as ‘subscribed’ to Twitter Blue

23 avril 2023 /

Twitter Blue Fake

“Chadwick Boseman, Kobe Bryant and Anthony Bourdain are the latest celebrities to be verified under Twitter Blue, the social media platform’s paid-subscription service that allows anyone to get a blue check mark by their display name if they pay $8 a month and confirm their phone number.
Except the actor, athlete and celebrity chef died years ago, before Twitter Blue even existed. Their accounts — and those of at least a dozen other dead celebrities — now feature a blue check, which, if hovered over, displays the message: “This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.””

Source : Twitter marks dead celebrities as ‘subscribed’ to Twitter Blue – The Washington Post

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