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Cybersecurity firm Sophos today released its annual State of Ransomware report showing ransomware attacks nearly doubled in 2021 from the year before, according to results of a survey of 5,600 IT professionals across many sectors.
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Bond en avant dans la course à la suprématie quantique : une équipe chinoise a mis au point un processeur un million de fois plus rapide que l
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FreeConvert est un outil en ligne de conversion de fichiers en tous genres et de tous types : documents, archives, fichiers audio, vidéos, etc. Le site indique prendre en charge plus de 1500 formats de fichiers. Avec cet outil vous pouvez convertir des fichiers allant jusqu'à une taille de 1 Go !.
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Le mardi 5 mai 2022 est un jour à marquer d'une pierre blanche: pour rendre le Web plus sûr et plus facile à utiliser, Apple, Google et Microsoft ont annoncé leur intention d'étendre aux particuliers la prise en charge d'une norme de connexion sans mot de passe. En clair, il s'agit de simplifier la vie de milliards d'internautes (5,3 milliards) et de sécuriser leurs usages des innombrables plateformes en ligne, devenues incontournables avec la dématérialisation des services. En effet, les internautes utilisent trop souvent des mots de passe très faciles à deviner voire toujours le même pour se simplifier la vie... mais aussi celle de tous les aigrefins.
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New *Privacy Not Included Research Finds #MentalHealth Apps Are Terrible at Privacy // Mozilla
The following is text from an email announcement received from Mozilla on May 2, 2022
"May is Mental Health Awareness Month. With so many people struggling with mental health issues recently, there has been a rapid rise in the use of mental health apps. These apps help people access online therapists, meditate to reduce stress, or find someone (or something) to listen to their problems. Unfortunately, *Privacy Not Included learned through our research that mental health apps are a growing industry with a lot of growing pains — privacy concerns are at the top of that list.
For our mental health app guide, we reviewed the privacy and security of 32 popular mental health and prayer apps, including Better Help, Talkspace, Calm, Headspace, Wysa, Pray.com, and Glorify.
What we found was frightening. In the six years we’ve been doing privacy research for *Privacy Not Included, we've never seen any group of products as bad at protecting and respecting privacy as mental health apps.
A few of our findings:
- 28 of the 32 apps we reviewed earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label.
- Weak passwords ranging from “1” to “11111111” were allowed on numerous apps.
- Two apps earned our Best Of distinction — PTSD Coach, an app created by the US Department of Veterans Affairs to help treat PTSD in veterans, and Wysa, an AI chatbot app with a very solid privacy policy.
Our main concerns with these apps are: - They collect an incredible amount of very personal information. Things like if you’re feeling depressed, how often you feel anxious, if you are having suicidal thoughts, if you are seeing a therapist and how often, and personally identifying information like name, location, sexual orientation, gender identify, and so much more. This is information that should be handled with extreme caution and care.
- But it’s not. Too many of these mental health and prayer apps use your personal information as a business asset to help them make money. They can share this information with third-party advertisers to target you with interest-based advertising, they can sell your information, they can combine your information with additional information they gather from outside sources such as social media platforms and data brokers.
- They don’t always give users the option to access and delete the personal information they collect.
- And too often they don’t take appropriate measures to secure and protect all this extremely sensitive personal information you share.
So, what can you do? We thought very carefully about what guidance to offer people because these mental health apps do have benefits. They provide access to more affordable and accessible therapists, they offer research-backed strategies to help cope with everything from anxiety and depression to suicidal thoughts, OCD, and eating disorders, they help us meditate to calm down and reduce stress. Unfortunately, too often this comes at the cost of privacy. If you use a mental health-related app, please consider doing the following.
- Read the reviews of the apps we provide in our new *Privacy Not Included guide to educate yourself on what data is collected and how it can be used. Choose apps that respect your privacy whenever possible.
- Never sign up to or link your social media account such as Facebook or Google to these apps as that allows these social media companies to collect even more data on you, like the fact you’re using a mental health app, how often, and when.
- Provide as little personal information as possible to access the service.
- Do not give consent to allow your data to be shared, sold, or used for advertising purposes if you are able to opt out. Unfortunately, you won’t always be able to opt-out.
- Always use a strong password to protect the information stored in these apps.
- If your employer offers you access to an app through a wellness program, ask them what data they can receive from the app and how your privacy as an employee will be respected.
Mental health is an incredibly important issue in our world today. We want to do what we can to help you access the help you need while understanding the risks to your privacy. Thank you for reading and supporting our *Privacy Not Included mental health apps guide.
Please share this important information with your friends, family, and colleagues.
#privacynotincluded
READ OUR REVIEWS
SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
Thank you,
Jen Caltrider & Misha Rykov
Your *Privacy Not Included Team
Mozilla"
______ For more, please see: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/mental-health-apps/
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Ayant opté pour un régime fiscal particulièrement favorable aux sociétés privées, l'Irlande est devenue le siège social européen des principales entreprises américaines. De son côté, des ONG avancent que cela expliquerait c
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Snapchat a dévoilé à la presse, en partenariat avec Médiamétrie, des informations inédites sur son audience française. Ce rare exercice de transparence dévoile la très bonne forme du réseau social. Il y a encore 4-5 ans, tout le monde imaginait Snapchat mourir. Copié par Facebook et plus particulièrement par
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Take a look at some Chrome extensions that you can share with your students to help them with vocab, note-taking, pronunciation, and more on their own time.
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En février 2021, AFNOR est victime d’une cyberattaque. Pendant plusieurs jours, l’organisation doit couper ses systèmes d’information, avec des répercussions opérationnelles pendant près de 3 mois. Olivier Peyrat, Directeur Général du Groupe AFNOR, et Frédéric Leconte, Directeur des Systèmes d’Informations du Groupe AFNOR, partagent les enseignements tirés de cette expérience.
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This article explores the differences between chatbots and virtual assistants, and explains the best use case for each.
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Amazon's Alexa keeps getting smarter with developers constantly creating newer skills for the virtual assistant. Today, there are tens of thousands of skills for almost everything you can think of or need.
But you don't need to go through them all to find the best ones. Read on to check out 25 of the best free and paid Alexa skills to try and enjoy.
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SANS Internet Storm Center - A global cooperative cyber threat / internet security monitor and alert system. Featuring daily handler diaries with summarizing and analyzing new threats to networks and internet security events.
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MQTT or Message Queueing Telemetry Transport is a light-weight messaging protocol popular in IoT (Internet of Things).Learn how it works, Adv...
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The internet never forgets information that we post online - and, as I discovered, old information can come back to haunt you.
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Maildax est un outil en ligne qui permet de créer rapidement et facilement une adresse électronique anonyme temporaire et gratuite. L'utilisation de ce type de webmail peut éviter bien des désagréments, notamment pour l'inscription sur des sites web où nous ne voulons pas laisser notre adresse e-mail principale, afin d'éviter le spam et les messages inutiles.
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Résultat des courses : vous n'aurez bientôt plus besoin d'un mot de passe pour vous connecter à vos appareils, à des sites web ou à des applications.
Au lieu de cela, votre téléphone stockera un justificatif FIDO appelé "passkey", qui sera utilisé pour déverrouiller votre appareil – et l'ensemble de vos comptes en ligne. Il s'agit d'un dispositif plus sûr qu'un mot de passe, car cette clé est protégée par de la cryptographie et n'est montrée à votre compte en ligne que lorsque vous déverrouillez votre appareil. A contrario, les mots de passe nous rendent vulnérables aux tentatives d’hameçonnage et à nos propres mauvaises habitudes, comme l'utilisation du même mot de passe sur plusieurs comptes. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/topic/securite-pc-et-internet
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Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits Pimoroni HyperPixel 4.0 Square - Touch Display for Raspberry Pi [Capacitive Touch - PIM470] : ID 4499 - It's hip to be square with the Pimoroni's HyperPixel 4.0 Square Display with Capacitive Touch for Raspberry Pi...
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95,1% des Français écoutent un contenu audio au moins une fois par mois d’après la dernière étude Global Audio de Médiamétrie et ils sont 82,3% à en écouter chaque jour. La radio représente en moyenne 57% du volume total de la consommation audio chaque jour, dont 53% en direct et 4% à la demande.
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Can an AI tell you whether a wine tastes good? No, of course not. But that didn't stop researchers from building an AI sommelier anyway.
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