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Détournements, escroqueries : éviter les pièges sur Facebook - 4 décembre 2011
Sur 800 millions d’"amis" de Facebook, tous ne sont pas forcément très honnêtes. Grande popularité et réservoir incroyable d’utilisateurs obligent, "la manière dont les informations sont échangées et/ou protégées dans ce type d’environnement est devenue l’un des principaux enjeux de la sécurité des données", explique l’éditeur (...)
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GCHQ aims to recruit computer hackers with code-cracking website - 1er décembre 2011
Government intelligence service targets ’self-taught’ hackers with cryptic website that features no obvious branding
The government intelligence service, GCHQ, is aiming to attract the next generation of web-savvy spies by running an ad campaign that challenges computer hackers to crack a code to get an interview. (...)
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GCHQ challenges codebreakers via social networks - 1er décembre 2011
UK intelligence agency GCHQ has launched a code-cracking competition to help attract new talent.
The organisation has invited potential applicants to solve a visual code posted at an unbranded standalone website.
The challenge has also been "seeded" to social media sites, blogs and forums.
A spokesman said the (...)
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Hackers leak personal details of 13 million South Koreans - 27 novembre 2011
Personal information of more than 13 million subscribers of a popular online game in South Korea has been leaked by hackers.
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said in a statement that games manufacturer Nexon reported to the commission that the company had discovered the leakage of personal data of its (...)
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Nouvelle publication massive d’e-mails de chercheurs sur le climat - 24 novembre 2011
La méthode, le contenu, jusqu’au pseudonyme utilisé : tout, ou presque, rappelle l’affaire dite du "climategate". Ce mardi, un nouveau dossier contenant des e-mails présumés de la Climatic Research Unit (CRU), un département de l’université d’East Anglia, en Grande-Bretagne, a été publiés sur Internet. Le fichier a depuis (...)
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Q&A : ’Climategate’ - 23 novembre 2011
In November 2009, over 1,000 private emails between climate change scientists were stolen and published online. The uproar that followed briefly shook the public’s faith in global warming science, and prompted investigations that debunked sceptics’ allegations that the mails showed the planet wasn’t warming. Yet (...)
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New Trove of Stolen E-Mails From Climate Scientists Is Released - 23 novembre 2011
The anonymous hacker who shook the world of climate science two years ago by posting a trove of stolen e-mails delivered a new batch on Tuesday, stirring up climate-change contrarians a little more than a week before global negotiations on greenhouse gases are to begin in Durban, South Africa.
The new e-mails (...)
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Xbox Live users hit by phishing attacks - 23 novembre 2011
Fraudulent transactions on the accounts of users of the Xbox Live service spur Microsoft and EA Sports to address the scam
Gamers have been hit by a fresh wave of hacking attacks "“ and this time, most worryingly, targeting their accounts on Xbox Live, Microsoft’s closed, proprietary and therefore supposedly (...)
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Some Xbox Live users targeted in online phishing scam - 22 novembre 2011
Xbox Live users are being urged to check their accounts after some say they were scammed by a fake email.
The phishing attack sent users to a fake website where they were asked to input personal details like addresses, emails and credit card details.
Microsoft is investigating but doesn’t know how many users are (...)
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The Surveillance Catalog - 20 novembre 2011
Where governments get their tools
Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The techniques described in the trove of 200-plus marketing (...)
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Plus de fichiers = plus de fuites - 14 novembre 2011
Le communiqué de presse de ceux qui se présentent comme les auteurs de "DoX-UMP", la publication des adresses e-mail et n° de téléphone portables, entre autres données personnelles, de plus d’un millier de cadres et d’élus UMP, fait référence à plusieurs de mes articles, et pose des questions qui méritent d’être débattues : (...)
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THE SOCIALBOT NETWORK "“ Des chercheurs pointent la vulnérabilité de Facebook aux « robots sociaux » - 3 novembre 2011
Des chercheurs de l’université de Vancouver, au Canada, ont dérobé quelque 250 Go de données sur Facebook, en se faisant accepter comme amis par des utilisateurs choisis au hasard, via des comptes-robots. Ils rappellent que la première faille de sécurité du réseau est humaine : ce sont les utilisateurs eux-mêmes, et (...)
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Vie privée : les fans de Facebook restent trop naïfs - 3 novembre 2011
La sécurité des données stockées sur Facebook ne serait pas assurée. Mais, plus que des failles de sécurité, les principaux responsables seraient les utilisateurs eux-mêmes. Des chercheurs de l’université de Vancouver ont réussi à collecter des données personnelles sur de nombreux utilisateurs du réseau social en créant des « (...)
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Socialbots used by researchers to ’steal’ Facebook data - 2 novembre 2011
Researchers have demonstrated a new technique capable of stealing personal information from Facebook.
Using ’socialbots’, computer programmes that mimic real Facebook profiles, the researchers were able to harvest vast quantities of personal data.
Socialbots are increasingly being used by internet criminals and (...)
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Governments turn to hacking techniques for surveillance of citizens - 1er novembre 2011
Surveillance firms that recently attended a US conference are accused of offering their services to repressive regimes
In a luxury Washington, DC, hotel last month, governments from around the world gathered to discuss surveillance technology they would rather you did not know about. The annual Intelligence (...)
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Hackers go after Facebook sites 600,000 times every day - 30 octobre 2011
Hackers are breaking into hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts every day, the social network has admitted.
Out of more than a billion logins to the website every 24 hours, 600,000 are impostors attempting to access users’ messages, photos and other personal information Facebook said.
The figure is the first (...)
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How an email hacker ruined my life and then tried to sell it back to me - 17 octobre 2011
Rowenna Davis tells how her identity was held hostage by an email hacker who wanted £500 to let her back into her account "“ and explains how it felt worse than daylight robbery
A hacker has been occupying my email account for the past week. And he or she may still be there. A disembodied intruder, this person has (...)
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Nouveau piratage de comptes de services en ligne Sony - 12 octobre 2011
Le groupe japonais Sony indique, mercredi 12 octobre, que 93 000 comptes d’utilisateurs de ses services en ligne ont été utilisés par des personnes non autorisées, quelques mois après avoir subi une attaque pirate massive.
Le groupe a précisé que les comptes concernés ont été suspendus et que leurs utilisateurs légitimes (...)
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The data deluge - 3 octobre 2011
Businesses, governments and society are only starting to tap its vast potential
Eighteen months ago, Li & Fung, a firm that manages supply chains for retailers, saw 100 gigabytes of information flow through its network each day. Now the amount has increased tenfold. During 2009, American drone aircraft flying (...)
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Hacked security firm closes its doors - 20 septembre 2011
Dutch security firm DigiNotar has filed for voluntary bankruptcy following a series of attacks by a hacker.
The attackers penetrated DigiNotar’s internal systems and then issued fake security certificates so they could impersonate web firms.
The certificates are believed to have been used to eavesdrop on the (...)
