Gmail's "dots don't matter" feature lets scammers create an account on, say, Netflix, with your email address but different dots. Results in convincing phishing emails.

A cryptocurrency future sounds liberating. In reality, it would be a disaster for everybody.

Android phones aren't just slow to get security updates. They also sometimes lie to you about them. A new study of 1,200 Android phones' firmware finds that the phones lacked as many as a dozen patches even while telling users they're fully patched. http…

A court just ordered that access to Telegram be blocked in Russia. Telegram is the second global network to be blocked in Russia after LinkedIn was banned in 2016. https://t.co/JgRX5XE9qL

Now just add some deep learning into this, you'll have fully functional walking bots in a few months 😱🤖 https://t.co/9Vw5K2gJ60

Le gouvernement ambitionne de mettre en place sa propre messagerie chiffrée d'ici juillet. Selon nos informations, elle reprend un outil existant, déj...

Sur @franceinter, Mounir Mahjoubi a annoncé un projet de messagerie publique chiffrée de bout en bout, interne à l'Etat et destinée à remplacer Telegram auprès des parlementaires et ministres

« Mon équipe va revenir vers vous sur ce point » n’a cessé de répéter Mark Zuckerberg, qui a un peu promis et beaucoup esquivé face au Congrès américain.

Do write Python noscripts? Put your code in a function main() and do if __name__ == “__main__”: main() And it will magically run a little bit faster. Seriously. Because of variable scopes and the performance difference between arrays and hashes. https://t.co/QgXCZGuJm9

Suite à une demande « CADA » de Next INpact, Pôle emploi vient d’ouvrir le code source de son calculateur d’allocations d’aide au retour à l’emploi (A...

Quand vous postez un selfie sur Facebook, vous fournissez trois données (photo, texte, reconnaissance faciale). Ils en collectent 17 autres (modèle du téléphone, opérateur, niveau de batterie, réseau wifi, temps passé sur la plateforme, etc.). https://t.co/5PWMf3dDdD

On applaudit très fort la Russie qui vient de bloquer 1,8 millions d'adresses IP de Google et Amazon dans l'espoir de bloquer l'application Telegram qui refuse de livrer les clés de chiffrement.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/russia-bans…

@peterktodd @spudowiar @matthew_d_green @entheogenesis BTW, accelerometers / gyroscopes are low frequency (5kHz) microphones. It was demonstrated that even the OS enforced 100 / 200 Hz polling limit in iOS / Android for sensors can be used to recognise speech:…

Refactoring UI is a YouTube series which takes poorly designed UI and gives it the fairy godmother treatment.

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Now that police agents can allegedly crack iPhones protected with passcodes made of six numbers, it’s time to use longer, harder to guess and crack alphanumeric passphrases.