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German personnalities’ personal datas have been hacked and published online

It concerns German politicians, journalists and personalities. Though the suspicions were falling on the far-right german party, as well as on the Russian government, German authorities were surprised to discover the person behind this attack. This 4th of January 2019, personal documents and addresses were published on Twitter concerning German public personalities. The…

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13/03/2019
Données personnelles / E-actualité / Etats-Unis / hack

Equifax Data Breach : 143 million of Americans affected

Founded in 1899, Equifax is one of the three largest American credit agencies along with Experian and TransUnion. Last 7th September, Equifax announced that a third party gained access to its data and hacked 143 million Americans personal data, which is nearly half the population of the United States. 143…

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26/10/2017
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WannaCrypt, le ransomware devenu une affaire mondiale

Vous avez probablement entendu parler de WannaCrypt (WannaCry ou encore WCry), le fameux ransomware mis au point avec les outils de la NSA. L'attaque qualifiée de "sans précédent" par Europol a touché des dizaines de milliers de machines depuis le vendredi 12 mai. L'attaque s'est rapidement propagée dans plus de 150 pays, causant…

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01/06/2017
Cybercriminalité / Données personnelles / International / Réseaux et télécoms / sécurité

Skimming, the first card based fraud and cash losses

 In 2014, 5.631 skimming attacks were reported in Europe. It represents a loss that exceed 275 Million EUR. But the US is the most affected by this criminal technique. Indeed, the US doesn’t use the EMV standard. With these figures, it’s easy to appreciate the threat of skimming on our life.

Article 9 - Skimming, image 1 - Lienhardt Jean-Laurent
 

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30/10/2015
Général

420 000 servers hacked to create a web map

An anonymous researcher realized his “dream” by creating a world web map. For this, he infected nearly 420,000 machines in the world to achieve the amount of computation needed for the experience.

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Source : http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/images/clientmap_16to9_1600x900.jpg

The technique used to produce a web map consist to send the command “ping” (test the accessibility of an IP address from one machine to another) to all existing IPv4 addresses, which represents about 4 billion possible addresses. These addresses are used by all devices connected to the Internet.
By calculating the response time of each request, and the path taken by the data, it’s possible to establish a representation of the repartition of the global Internet.
To achieve this feat, it’s necessary to have a strong computing capability to perform the most possible queries simultaneously. Indeed, it should take theoretically 126 years with a single machine to develop this map, at the rate of one request per second.
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18/04/2013