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Preserving the Right to Obscurity in the Age of Facial Recognition - 22 octobre 2017
"Police suggest entire population in the Elm Terrace area do as follows : Everyone in every house in every street open a front or rear door or look from the windows. The fugitive cannot escape if everyone in the next minute looks from his house. Ready !"
"Of course ! Why hadn’t they done it before ! Why, in all (...)
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The U.S. Election System Remains Deeply Vulnerable, But States Would Rather Celebrate Fake Success - 3 octobre 2017
When the Department of Homeland Security notified 21 states that Russian actors had targeted their elections systems in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the impacted states rolled out a series of defiant statements. "Oregon’s security measures thwarted Russian government attempts to access (...)
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Quand la CIA installait des spywares pour surveiller le FBI et la NSA - 26 août 2017
Sous couvert d’installation et mise à jour de systèmes biométriques, la CIA espionnait ses partenaires, le FBI, la NSA et le DHS.
Quand la CIA s’amusait à espionner ses partenaires à coup d’utilitaires biométriques. C’est la dernière révélation de Wikileaks extirpée des documents dits « "¯Vault 7"¯ » sur les outils de (...)
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Obama Opens NSA’s Vast Trove of Warrantless Data to Entire Intelligence Community, Just in Time for Trump - 15 janvier 2017
With only days until Donald Trump takes office, the Obama administration on Thursday announced new rules that will let the NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant, court orders or congressional authorization with 16 other agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the (...)
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Feds Regularly Monitored Black Lives Matter Since Ferguson - 25 juillet 2015
The Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring the Black Lives Matter movement since anti-police protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri last summer, according to hundreds of documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The documents, released by the Department of (...)
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Lobbyists for Spies Appointed To Oversee Spying - 9 avril 2015
Who’s keeping watch of the National Security Agency ? In Congress, the answer in more and more cases is that the job is going to former lobbyists for NSA contractors and other intelligence community insiders.
A wave of recent appointments has placed intelligence industry insiders into key Congressional roles (...)
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FBI warned Year Ago of impending Malware Attacks"”But Didn’t Share Info with Sony - 24 décembre 2014
Nearly one year before Sony was hacked, the FBI warned that U.S. companies were facing potentially crippling data destruction malware attacks, and predicted that such a hack could cause irreparable harm to a firm’s reputation, or even spell the end of the company entirely. The FBI also detailed specific guidance (...)
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Société de surveillance : votre téléphone vous espionne ! - 5 novembre 2014
Big Brother a été externalisé. La police peut savoir où vous êtes, où vous avez été avant, et même où vous allez. Tout ça, grâce à ce petit mouchard si pratique dans votre poche : votre téléphone portable.
Il y a 331 millions d’abonnements de téléphone portable aux États-Unis, environ 20 millions de plus que de résidents. Près (...)
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Une conversation sur la cybersécurité à laquelle personne ne veut participer - 26 septembre 2014
Ron Ross du National Institute of Standard and Technology a pris la parole à la fin du 5th Annual Bilington Cybersecurity Summit [1] pour encourager une "conversation [sur la cybersécurité] à laquelle personne ne veut participer". Sa présentation a été un condensé avec un regard scientifique des points abordés lors de la (...)
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Reconnaissance faciale : "pas vu, pas pris" disait le dicton - 24 septembre 2014
Le marché mondial de la biométrie faciale augmentera de 1.92 milliards $ en 2013, à 6.5 milliards de dollars en 2018, avec un taux de croissance annuel de 27,7% de 2013 à 2018. Quelles sont les raisons d’un tel dynamisme quand la biométrie faciale n’a jamais était autant décriée comme une menace a priori qu’elle ferait (...)
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Cyber attack reveals data on at least 25,000 workers at the US Department of Homeland Security - 23 août 2014
US government employees are the victims of the latest security breach. A contractor for the government has revealed that sensitive information on at least 25,000 workers has been obtained as a result of a cyber attack. The information includes standard personal details like Social Security numbers and birth dates, (...)
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Secret Service Software Will ’Detect Sarcasm’ in Social Media Users - 7 juin 2014
The Secret Service is purchasing software to watch users of social networks in real time, according to contract documents.
In a work order posted on Monday, the agency details information the tool will collect — ranging from emotions of Internet users to old Twitter messages.
Its capabilities will include (...)
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U.S. looks into claims of security flaw in Siemens gear - 22 août 2012
The U.S. government is looking into claims by a cyber security researcher that flaws in software for specialized networking equipment from Siemens could enable hackers to attack power plants and other critical systems.
Justin W. Clarke, an expert in securing industrial control systems, disclosed at a conference (...)
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Trapwire surveillance system exposed in document leak - 13 août 2012
Papers released by WikiLeaks show US department of homeland security paid $832,000 to deploy system in two cities
It sounds like something from the film Minority Report : a CCTV surveillance system that recognises people from their face or walk and analyses whether they might be about to commit a terrorist or (...)
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Revealed : Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you (and they include ’pork’, ’cloud’ and ’Mexico’) - 2 juin 2012
The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.
The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as ’attack’, ’Al Qaeda’, ’terrorism’ and ’dirty bomb’ (...)
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Les USA révèlent les mots-clés surveillés sur Internet - 2 juin 2012
Le département de la sécurité intérieure des USA a communiqué la liste des mots-clés surveillés par les agences de renseignements américains, suite à une requête basée sur la loi pour la liberté d’information. Les termes couvrent de nombreux sujets, mais sont considérés comme trop vagues, variés et ambigus par les groupes (...)
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Pentagon to expand cybersecurity program for defense contractors - 14 mai 2012
The Pentagon is expanding and making permanent a trial program that teams the government with Internet service providers to protect defense firms’ computer networks against data theft by foreign adversaries.
It is part of a larger effort to broaden the sharing of classified and unclassified cyberthreat data (...)
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Mozilla Slams CISPA, Breaking Silicon Valley’s Silence On Cybersecurity Bill - 4 mai 2012
While the Internet has been bristling with anger over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the Internet industry has been either silent or quietly supportive of the controversial bill. With one exception.
Late Tuesday, Mozilla’s Privacy and Public Policy lead sent me the following statement : (...)
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The Global Intelligence Files - 27 février 2012
Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files "“ more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an (...)
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Un centre de surveillance des réseaux sociaux pour la sécurité intérieure des Etats-Unis - 19 octobre 2010
Le Department of Homeland Security a instauré une unité chargée de recueillir des informations sur les demandeurs de la nationalité américaine par le biais des réseaux sociaux. Inquiétant, selon l’Electronic Frontier Foundation.
L’United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS, équivalent d’un ministère en charge de (...)
