Category Archives: Vie privée

Ooops, they did it again! Was my password compromised, again?

Your probably read that 68 648 009 dropbox accounts have been recently compromised. In the past years, companies like Linkedin, Adobe, Tumblr, Fling or MySpace were hacked and it is likely that your credentials were stolen by hackers if you had an account on one of these sites. It’s even possible that your credentials (Name, email and passwords) have been published on the web.

If you don’t remember if you were one of the victims of any of these breach, there is a very useful website that allows you to check if your email address can be found in one of these leaked list of credentials: haveibeenpwned.com.

You just need to enter your email address and press enter. Then, you’ll know.

But, as you don’t always use the same password on all the sites you use and as you change them quite often, you’re probably safe!

Google (also) knows what you said last summer

After, Google knows what you did last summer, this summer, we will give you a little hint to discover (and it migh be creepy) all the things you said to your androïd phone or to your Google search (sometimes just by hitting the wrong button or by saying “OK Google”).

Yes, Googles likes to keep everything and also to share it with you (in case you would like to remeber all those stuff). You just have to go to My Activity on Google (https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity) to have te complete list of things you said to your phone (search this, call Bob, launch this application) and all the things that were heard by your microphone at the same time.

Privacy? At least now you know (a bit more about the cost of using free tools).

By the way, some hackers are using this function to hack your phone by including sounds in YouTube videos that will trigger the voice recognition function without being perceived as a command by a human. If you found something stange in the list, you’ll know.

You’ve been notified!

OK Google, close this page!