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For the first time ever, Russia’s federal censor, Roskomnadzor, has added a foreign online messenger to its “Registry of Information-Dissemination Organizers,” targeting the Swiss company Threema.
A few months ago, I wrote a post on SMS logins following a wave of attacks attempting to take over Iranian Telegram accounts. Recently, there have been new confirmed cases of attacks in both Iran and Russia. Oleg Kozlovsky is an opposition activist and the director of Vision of Tomorrow Center in Moscow. In a...
This is the end of era centralized communication!
The decision is seemingly a trade-off for usability across multiple devices.
I analyzed the custom protocol used by the mobile messaging application Threema and wrote a paper to summarize my results.
Un chercheur en sécurité a découvert la preuve de la surveillance en masse dans Xinjiang, une région au nord-ouest, montrant ainsi lampleur du suivi des habitants de la Chine, pays qui est déjà connu pour son utilisation à grande échelle de lintelligence artificielle par le gouvernement pour la surveillance des minorités. Selon les révélations de Victor Gevers, chercheur en sécurité et co-fondateur de la Fondation GDI, la Chine suit de près les déplacements de près de 2,6 millions de personnes...
Comme dans beaucoup d’entreprises françaises, l’open source s’est taillé une place de choix dans le système d’information, mais la MAIF est allée plus loin. Celle-ci publie désormais ses propres projets au format ouvert.
Internal emails also reveal plans by Facebook to pass data on single Facebook users to companies selling dating services or organisations that wanted to target single people with ‘political’ advertisements. The documents, marked confidential, reveal a secret programme by Facebook’s ‘Growth Team’ to collect and exploit data from customers with Android mobile phones. Their disclosures come only a week after a critical report by a UK parliamentary committee investigating disinformation and fake news, called for independent regulator to oversee Facebook and other social media companies.
Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including personal health information. Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook.
In my years covering cybersecurity, there’s one variation of the same lie that floats above the rest. “We take your privacy and security seriously.” You might have heard the phrase here and there. It’s a common trope used by companies in the wake of a data breach — eit…
If you weren’t scared of USB cables before, you should be now. The O.MG cable (or Offensive MG kit) from [MG] hides a backdoor inside the shell of a USB connector. Plug this cable into your c…
This post presents a crawl of the top Alexa 500K to study the use and the diversity of the canvas fingerprints on the web.