Friday, September 30, 2016

Telegrams : 1 million Galaxy Note 7 redeemed, Zero Day iOS … – Silicon

More than a million Galaxy Note 7 to be replaced in the world. Samsung has clarified this figure to Reuters. It’s still a long way to the Korean carmaker to reach the 2.5 million units sold in total, and potentially have a defective battery. For memory, some smartphones have been the victims of overheating or even explosion. The Lithium-Ion battery of the terminal has been fingered as responsible. In South Korea, and the United States, 60% of all terminals have been replaced. In Europe, this exchange program began at the end of September. Samsung plans to restart the commercialization of its product from the 1st October for Korea. In France, it will have to wait for next October 28.

Zerodium pays $ 1.5 million for a flaw Zero-Day on iOS 10. The firm specialized in the research and the sale of vulnerabilities back its rewards. At the same time last year, Zerodium proposed $ 1 million for a critical fault on the mobile OS of Apple. Today, the start-up founded by the French Chaouki Bekrar (founder of Vupen) increases its reward in announcing $ 1.5 million for a jailbreak remote iOS 10. Difficult for research programmes of the bug to match these rates. It should be noted that the discovery of a vulnerability Zero-Day on Android 7 and 6 is awarded $ 200,000.

The EU been more vigilant about data collection. The eu commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, announced that it would “monitor very closely” the companies that collect and use personal data as Facebook, WhatsApp and Google. This note follows a decision by Germany to ban Facebook to use the data from WhatsApp. The ruling european said to want to ” determine if we need to begin to examine the mergers including data recoverable, even if the companies that own (the data) do not have a large turnover “. And to add to that ” the companies who use mégadonnées must adhere to the rules “. A warning to the GAFA that in the light of the reputation of the commissioner should not take it lightly.

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