We present several novel techniques to track (unassociated)
mobile devices by abusing features of the Wi-Fi standard.
This shows that using random MAC addresses, on its own,
does not guarantee privacy.

UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now report that a misconfigured cloud-based file repository exposed the names, addresses, account details, and account personal identification numbers (PINs) of as many as 14 million US customers of telecommunications carrier Verizon, per analysis of the average number of accounts exposed per day in the sample that was downloaded. The cloud server was owned and operated by telephonic software and data firm NICE Systems, a third-party vendor for Verizon.

Cliqz ne rachète pas la totalité de Ghostery, mais simplement son extension et les actifs associés. Le reste des activités sera poursuivi sous le nom original de l’entreprise, Evidon. La vente résout un conflit d’intérêt pour cette dernière qui, d’un côté, fournissait le plug-in anti-tracking, et de l’autre, vendait aux entreprises des données sur les outils de tracking bloqués par les utilisateurs.

Décidément, Microsoft se transforme de plus en plus en geôlier pour ses utilisateurs, Onedrive ne veut plus lire d'autres stockages que les NTFS.

After being an early adopter of Facebook and using it for over a decade, I decided to delete my account. Here’s why.

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Graphical wireless scanning for Linux