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Yahoo ! a été piraté. 500 millions de comptes sont concernés
“ahoo ! a confirmé dans un communiqué de presse que son réseau a été piraté en 2014 par une entité qui semble liée à un Etat. Les pirates auraient volé des informations de comptes comme les noms, les adresses électroniques, les numéros de téléphones, les mots de passe et dans certains cas les questions secrètes (certaines n’étaient pas chiffrées).”
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Yahoo Admits 500 Million Hit In 2014 Breach
“Yahoo has admitted to a hack in 2014 that left data of 500 million users exposed. The company also blamed an unnamed nation state for the hack.”
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iPhone 7 Jailbreak Has Already Been Achieved In Just 24 Hours!
“It has only been a few days since the launch of Apple’s brand new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, but it appears that the new iPhone has already been jailbroken.”
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Ils espionnent un ordinateur grâce aux ondes générées par… l’USB
“Des chercheurs israéliens ont prouvé que l’on pouvait exfiltrer des données d’un ordinateur en s’appuyant sur les émanations radioélectriques d’une connexion USB”
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Hacker gets 20 years in prison for sharing US military data with ISIS
“A 20-year-old, Kosovo native computer hacker Ardit Ferizi has received 20 years in prison for the crime of helping out ISIS, a terrorist organization. Ferizi is guilty of handing over critical and sensitive information about over a thousand US government and military officials to the so-called Islamic State.”
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OVH hosting suffers 1Tbps DDoS attack; largest Internet has ever seen
“OVH is counted amongst the largest hosting companies in the world but it is in the news for a bad reason as the company’s servers have suffered a massive 1 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last week.”
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324,000 payment cards breached, CVVs included – Naked Security
“More than 300,000 credit card records were uploaded to the file sharing service Mega; the data has since been removed from Mega, but not before it was widely downloaded by many interested parties. By some standards, 300,000 stolen records doesn’t sound very many these days.”
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Ransomware’s next target: Your car and your home
“Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated how vulnerabilities in everyday connected devices can allow hackers to hold whole areas of your life to ransom”
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860 000 équipements Cisco exposés à des outils liés à la NSA
“Près de 860 000 périphériques réseau de Cisco sont exposés à une vulnérabilité qui ressemble à celle qui a été exploitée par un groupe d’attaquants, peut-être proche de l’Agence de sécurité nationale (NSA) américaine. Cette faille pourrait permettre d’extraire des données des mémoires de ces équipements. “
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Des chercheurs chinois contrôlent à distance une Tesla S
“Des ingénieurs chinois ont réussi à prendre, à distance, le contrôle du système de freinage, du toit ouvrant, du verrouillage des portes, du coffre, des rétroviseurs latéraux et d’autres fonctions. Tesla travaille déjà sur des correctifs.”
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Opera’s free VPN is now available in its main desktop browser
“They’re good if you want a little more anonymity or are trying to find your way around geoblocks, but they usually cost money. Not in Opera’s latest browser, though. After testing out a built-in VPN in the beta version earlier this year, the company is now rolling out the same service on its main software stream. That means if you download the latest version of the browser, Opera 40, you get a free VPN with unlimited data.”
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Visa reveals growing Euro interest in biometric authentication
“More than three in five European consumers (62%) believe using biometric forms of payment authentication will be faster and easier than passwords and PINs, research by Visa reveals, with 42% believing that the procedure could completely eliminate the need for multiple passwords and PIN codes”
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ASX shut down by hardware failure
“The Australian Stock Exchange was forced to close early on Monday following a day of problems caused by a hardware failure in a database used by the bourse’s equities trading system.”
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Swift unveils tool to help banks spot fraudulent transfers
“In the wake of the $81 million Bangladesh Bank hack, Swift is prepping a new tool designed to help banks pick up on fraudulent transfers by sending them daily reports of their payment message flows.”
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