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Electricité gratuite. Cette utopie énergétique va pouvoir enfin se concrétiser dans tous les foyers français équipés du nouveau compteur électrique communicant Linky. En effet, l’attaque informatique de portée mondiale qui a touché la quasi totalité des ordinateurs de la planète a également fortement impacté le fonctionnement des compteurs intelligents désormais incapables d’enregistrer et retransmettre votre consommation électrique. Les pouvoirs publiques comptent sur le civisme des usagers pour ne pas abuser de cette électricité gratuite providentielle.
Le New York Times révèle que de nouvelles règles secrètes permettent désormais au président américain de disposer de tous les pouvoirs pour prévenir ou riposter à une cyberattaque de grande ampleur.
Un rapport secret sur l'utilisation du cyberarsenal américain, de plus en plus fourni, donne à Barack Obama de larges pouvoirs pour lancer des offensives préventives dès lors que les Etats-Unis disposent de preuves solides annonçant une importante attaque informatique venue de l'étranger, selon des responsables ayant participé à l'élaboration du document.
Piratages en provenance de Chine
Barack Obama n'aurait donné son feu vert au recours à des cyberarmes qu'une seule fois, au tout début de sa présidence, en ordonnant une série de cyberattaques contre les installations d'enrichissement nucléaire en Iran. Une offensive qui avait montré qu'il était possible de détruire les infrastructures d'un pays, sans bombardement ni envoi sur place de saboteurs.
Have you had to change your login information in a paranoid fever after discovering that a major online service provider has been hacked in the last few weeks? Well, if you have a Yahoo! account, you might have some worrying to do. A hacker group called D33DS Company has apparently dumped 453,492 usernames and passwords obtained in plaintext from a Yahoo! service.
Ars Technica is reporting that usernames and passwords allegedly from Yahoo! were posted online by the D33DS Company group. Other sources indicate that the user information was specifically from the Yahoo! Voice service, formally known as Associated Content.
Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab said that the latest malware discovery, known as the Flame, is not only similar to the Stuxnet worm that infiltrated Iranian nuclear power plants in 2010, it was more than likely created by the same entities.
Social networking website LinkedIn is investigating claims that over six million of its users' passwords have been leaked onto the internet.
Hackers posted a file containing encrypted passwords onto a Russian web forum.
Flame seems to be another military-grade cyber-weapon, this one optimized for espionage. The worm is at least two years old, and is mainly confined to computers in the Middle East. (It does not replicate and spread automatically, which is certainly so that its controllers can target it better and evade detection longer.) And its espionage capabilities are pretty impressive. We'll know more in the coming days and weeks as different groups start analyzing it and publishing their results.
The complexity of the code within this threat is at par with that seen in Stuxnet and Duqu, arguably the two most complex pieces of malware we have analyzed to date. As with the previous two threats, this code was not likely to have been written by a single individual but by an organized, well-funded group of people working to a clear set of directives. Certain file names associated with the threat are identical to those described in an incident involving the Iranian Oil Ministry.
Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes.