{"id":5331,"date":"2019-03-08T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T11:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2019-03-08T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:48:08","slug":"why-we-need-software-libero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2019\/03\/08\/why-we-need-software-libero\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we need Software Libero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egypt Government Used Gmail Third-Party Apps To Phish Activists – Slashdot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

So does anybody still need to be taught why Software Libero (i.e. Free-as-in-Freedom) is of utmost importance today for the actual freedom of people? Or better why we must ban software which does not came with readable and inspectable source code?<\/p>\n

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Egypt Government Used Gmail Third-Party Apps To Phish Activists – Slashdot<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Members of Amnesty International say that Egyptian authorities are behind a recent wave of spear-phishing attacks that have targeted prominent local human rights defenders, media, and civil society organizations’ staff. The attacks used a relatively new spear-phishing technique called “OAuth phishing,” Amnesty experts said. OAuth phishing is when attackers aim to steal a user account’s OAuth token instead of the account password. When a user grants a third-party app the right to access their account, the app receives an OAuth token instead of the user’s password. These tokens work as authorization until the user revokes their access. Amnesty investigators said that in the recent spear-phishing campaign that targeted Egyptian activists, authorities created Gmail third-party apps through which they gained access to victim’s accounts<\/a>. Victims would receive an email that looked like a legitimate Gmail security alert. But when they clicked the link, they’d be redirected to a page where a third-party app would request access to their account. Once the victim granted the app access to their Gmail account, the user would be redirected to the account’s legitimate security settings page where they’d be left to change their password. Even if the victim changes their password, at this point, the phishers would still have access to the account via the newly acquired OAuth token.<\/i> The Amnesty International report<\/a> says the spear-phishing campaign also targeted Yahoo, Outlook and Hotmail users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egypt Government Used Gmail Third-Party Apps To Phish Activists – Slashdot So does anybody still need to be taught why Software Libero (i.e. Free-as-in-Freedom) is of utmost importance today for the actual freedom of people? Or better why we must ban software which does not came with readable and inspectable source code?<\/p>\n

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