PwC vient de publier son Top 100 mondial

Contre l'obsolescence programmée

Des applis un peu trop curieuses

Le passe-droit abusif accordé par Google

Pas de chantage en cas de piratage

L'agence de surveillance US victime de son zèle

La faille de sécurité de l'application Nametests

Le navigateur signalera les comptes compromis

Les géants ne jouent pas le jeu

Because of their side effects, browser fingerprinting countermeasures may have a negative impact on users privacy. In this post we look more in details at Canvas Defender, a canvas fingerprinting countermeasure.

The issue appears to be affecting Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8 users.

Before it became a covert surveillance tool disguised as an outstanding browser extension, Stylish really was an outstanding browser extension. It bestowed upon its users nothing less than the power to change the appearance of the internet. Its extensive bank of user-made skins gave bright websites a dark background, undid disliked UI changes, and added manga pictures to everything that wasn’t a manga picture already. I spent many wonderful hours in its simple CSS editor, hiding the distracting parts of the web whilst unknowingly being spied on. Facebook news feed...

Privacy risks with Facebook’s PII-based targeting: auditing a data broker’s advertising interface Venkatadri et al., IEEE Security and Privacy 2018 This is one of those jaw-hits-the-floor, can’t qu…

Protect the nudes

Facebook told US lawmakers that while it imposed new data-sharing restrictions on most app developers in May 2015, 61 companies received a special 'one-time' extension.

Bing has made very significant investments in the area of deep learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence to support a number of different search scenarios. The Bing Maps team has been applying these techniques as well with the goal to increase the coverage of building footprints available for OpenStreetMap.

And how it might change what cops can do with our smartphones.