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Le hacker néozélandais Denis Andzakovic vient de créer un logiciel plutôt dangereux : un extracteur de mots de passe pour KeePass 2.x, célèbre logiciel de gestion de sésames open source. Une fois installé sur une machine, cet " outil " baptisé KeeFarce attend que l'utilisateur déverrouille son gestionnaire de mots de passe pour siphonner tous les identifiants et les exfiltrer au travers d'un simple fichier .CSV.

"The assault against the tabloid press is over," said the Daily Telegraph editorial in its response to the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to take no further action against companies and journalists accused of phone hacking. "It is right that the CPS has at last drawn a line under these investigations", said the Times.

It's not every day that someone turns off the electricity for more than half a million people just by sending an email. In fact, it had never happened until last month, when hackers tricked Ukrainian power plant employees into giving them access to industrial control systems, the equivalent of a switch that regulates electricity flow out of a power plant.

EspañolOn Sunday, July 5, hackers infiltrated the Italian information-technology company Hacking Team (HT), which sells offensive intrusion and surveillance software to government clients all over the world. The data breach revealed 400 gigabytes worth of company documents, emails, and invoices - many of them billed to Latin-American governments, including Ecuador.

Wearable activity tracking devices like those made by Fitbit were one of the hottest gifts this past holiday season and it appears criminal hackers were paying attention. According to reports by Brian Krebs and Buzzfeed, some number of Fitbit accounts were recently discovered to have been compromised.

C'est un texte très (très) important qui vient de démarrer mardi son parcours parlementaire: un projet de loi, voté en conseil des ministres et qui se donne pour objectif d'améliorer les méthodes particulières de recherche et certaines méthodes d'enquête en ce qui concerne internet et les communications électroniques.

Johnson & Johnson is telling patients that it has learned of a security vulnerability in one of its insulin pumps that a hacker could exploit to overdose diabetic patients with insulin, though it describes the risk as low.