Mexico’s most prominent human rights lawyers, journalists and anti-corruption activists have been targeted by advanced spyware sold to the Mexican government on the condition that it be used only to investigate criminals and terrorists.

The targets include lawyers looking into the mass disappearance of 43 students, a highly respected academic who helped write anti-corruption legislation, two of Mexico’s most influential journalists and an American representing victims of sexual abuse by the police. The spying even swept up family members, including a teenage boy.

Since 2011, at least three Mexican federal agencies have purchased about $80 million worth of spyware created by an Israeli cyberarms manufacturer. The software, known as Pegasus, infiltrates smartphones to monitor every detail of a person’s cellular life — calls, texts, email, contacts and calendars. It can even use the microphone and camera on phones for surveillance, turning a target’s smartphone into a personal bug.

In what is the largest known data exposure of its kind, UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that a misconfigured database containing the sensitive personal details of over 198 million American voters was left exposed to the internet by a firm working on behalf of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in their efforts to elect Donald Trump. The data, which was stored in a publicly accessible cloud server owned by Republican data firm Deep Root Analytics, included 1.1 terabytes of entirely unsecured personal information compiled by DRA and at least two other Republican contractors, TargetPoint Consulting, Inc. and Data Trust. In total, the personal information of potentially near all of America’s 200 million registered voters was exposed, including names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details, as well as data described as “modeled” voter ethnicities and religions.

This disclosure dwarfs previous breaches of electoral data in Mexico (also discovered by Vickery) and the Philippines by well over 100 million more affected individuals, exposing the personal information of over sixty-one percent of the entire US population.

Les pires craintes se transforment parfois en réalité. Un malware d'un nouveau genre, qui cible les infrastructures d'apprivisionnement électrique, a été détecté par deux entreprises spécialisées : ESET et Dragos Security. S'il n'a été utilisé qu'à petite échelle jusqu'à présent, il a été conçu de manière à pouvoir infiltrer et saboter presque n'importe quel réseau électrique en Europe. Et ce, de manière quasi-automatique. Un scénario catastrophe qui semble malheureusement de plus en plus plausible.

Le fabricant néerlandais Fairphone lance Fairphone Open, une version ouverte d’Android 6 Marshmallow. Il indique que cette version d'Android, avec un code source ouvert, est livrée sans les services mobiles de Google (Google Mobile Services, GMS) alors que le système d'exploitation standard de Fairphone est livré avec ces options.

Ces guides d'accompagnement présentent les considérations et principes permettant de créer un document bureautique accessible, assortis de conseils et procédures non normatifs pour les mettre en œuvre.

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