I loved this quote by Tristin Harris in the New York Magazine article The Internet Apologizes … “We cannot afford the advertising business model. The price of free is actually too high. It is literally destroying our society, because it incentivizes automated systems that have these inherent flaws. Cambridge Analytica is the easiest way of explaining... Read more

Botnet operators and cyber-espionage groups (APTs) are abusing the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol that comes with all modern routers to proxy bad traffic and hide their real location from investigators.

More than 1.5 billion sensitive files exposed online publically that including Patent Application, Payroll, Tax Return, Patient List, Copyright Application and Source Code.The data exposed is not by means of any cybercriminal activities, it has been publically available.

Data analytics firm CubeYou uses personality quizzes and apps clearly labeled for "non-profit academic research" to aid marketers in finding customers.

Et Sheryl Sandberg refuse de l'envisager

Cet article est la traduction de “What should you think about when using Facebook?” écrit par Vicki Boykis le 1er février 2017

Information security won't improve unless chains pay a price for failure.

Facebook's Building 8 team approached top hospitals about a data-sharing agreement, but the plan has been put on pause after the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal.

Some cybersecurity experts and regular users were surprised to learn about a Chrome tool that scans Windows computers for malware. But there’s no reason to freak out about it.

Amazon and Google have filed patent applications, many still under consideration, that outline how digital assistants can monitor more of what users say and do.

We need better options that are designed to protect our privacy.

Facebook said Wednesday that it believes most of its users could have had their public profile scraped by third parties.

Facebook Inc. said that data on as many as 87 million people, most of them in the U.S., may have been improperly shared with research firm Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook Inc. scans the links and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, and reads chats when they’re flagged to moderators, making sure the content abides by the company’s rules. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked or taken down.

The method was similar to the one Netflix uses to recommend movies — no crystal ball, but good enough to make an effective political tool.

After a leaked 2016 memo knocked the staggering giant again.