This time the culprit is LinkedIn. The social networking giant wants violations of its corporate policy against using automated scripts to access public information on its website to count as felony “hacking” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a 1986 federal law meant to criminalize breaking into private computer systems to access non-public information.

EFF, together with our friends DuckDuckGo and the Internet Archive, have urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reject LinkedIn’s request to transform the CFAA from a law meant to target “hacking” into a tool for enforcing its computer use policies. Using automated scripts to access publicly available data is not “hacking,” and neither is violating a website’s terms of use. LinkedIn would have the court believe that all “bots” are bad, but they’re actually a common and necessary part of the Internet. “Good bots” were responsible for 23 percent of Web traffic in 2016. Using them to access publicly available information on the open Internet should not be punishable by years in federal prison.

Without that, trilogue negotiations – where the three EU institutions, Commission, Parliament and Council, agree on the final text – cannot begin. However, a November progress report from the presidency was full of references to the need for "further discussions", which disappointed many observers.

Although it took the Parliament around nine months to come to a final agreement, Birgit Sippel, the German Social Democrat rapporteur for the file in Parliament, told The Register that the Council should have started its own discussions already.

Showcased at a launch event at the National Cyber Security Centre in London, the nine companies will spend nine months working alongside the UK intelligence agency and business experts in a scheme designed to help protect the UK from hackers and cybercrime.

There are some 269 billion emails sent and received daily. That’s roughly 35 emails for every person on the planet, every day. Over 40 percent of those emails are tracked, according to a study published last June by OMC, an “email intelligence” company that also builds anti-tracking tools.

The tech is pretty simple. Tracking clients embed a line of code in the body of an email—usually in a 1x1 pixel image, so tiny it's invisible, but also in elements like hyperlinks and custom fonts. When a recipient opens the email, the tracking client recognizes that pixel has been downloaded, as well as where and on what device. Newsletter services, marketers, and advertisers have used the technique for years, to collect data about their open rates; major tech companies like Facebook and Twitter followed suit in their ongoing quest to profile and predict our behavior online.

Security researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, last week went public about security shortcomings in mobile banking apps that leave millions of users at a heightened risk of hacking.

An upgrade to a major US signals intelligence centre in Northamptonshire, UK, has been struck by controversy – after architects acting on behalf of the US Air Force and Blighty's Ministry of Defence nicked a photo of it from a website devoted to uncovering secret military bases in Britain.

Parents fully control the contact list and children can’t connect with contacts of whom their parent do not approve. Parents also control the child’s account and contacts through a special panel that appears in their main Facebook app. The app is free to download and there are no ads or in-app purchases on it.

But before we get carried away, let us put this exciting new development in its wider context. Facebook is a data-mining and refining company. It makes almost all of its revenues from monetising the data trails of its users. The key to its continuing prosperity lies in making sure that the supply of that precious data continues to flow in ever-increasing volumes.

That can only be done in two ways: by increasing the number of users and/or by increasing the amount of time they spend engaging with the service – ie creating “monetisable” data.

Banks in Australia will need to ensure they are able to catch the fraudulent transactions in less than 30 seconds.

Despite the hype around biometrics and its place in the finance sector, Savvides isn't convinced it is the right solution when it comes to authenticating NPP transactions.

"It's OK in closed scenarios like passports and other places like that where it's a closed ecosystem, but in an internet-enabled world I don't like the idea of biometrics being collected," he told ZDNet.

"The other thing is that the amount of data that you're going to collect and then store, I don't think is going to give you enough to do very strong biometric authentication because you're always going to be limited by the sensors on the device.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced a plan to bring down anti-leaker legislation that provides for 20 year prison sentences for whistelblowers who leak in order to prove government wrongdoing, and for the journalists who publish those leaks.

Smart credit cards that let you toggle between multiple digitally saved credit cards haven't had a great run. Plastc, which raised more than $9 million in preorders, failed to ever ship a product and filed for bankruptcy. Coin, on the other hand, managed to ship a card, but ended its product services after Fitbit acquired the company. Still, the dream isn't dead, yet.

A company called Edge announced today that it's acquiring Plastc for an undisclosed sum with the goal of incorporating its tech into the company's own all-in-one credit card. P

Danalock hat eine gute Nachricht für alle Nutzer, die ein paar mehr Schlösser oder Zutrittsberechtigungen verwalten müssen. Das ist ab sofort nämlich auch über eine Web-Oberfläche möglich. Der Login erfolgt einfach über die normalen Zugangsdaten, die man auch in der App nutzt. Über die Weboberfläche lassen sich dann Benutzer, Schlösser und Zugängen bequem am Desktop regeln.

A New Jersey man was just one of a trio who pled guilty to hacking charges and creating the devastating Mirai botnet, which spread via vulnerabilities in Internet-connected devices to unleash numerous massive distributed-denial-of-service attacks.

As Ars reported in October 2016, the most serious DDoS degraded or completely took down Twitter, GitHub, the PlayStation network, and hundreds of other sites by targeting Dyn, a service that provided domain name services to the affected sites.

Facebook says its investigation into Russian attempts to influence the Brexit vote has determined the activity amounted to just three adverts.

Twitter says its own inquiry has linked six ads promoting referendum-related content on its platform to Russian sources.

„Smart-TVs stehen stellvertretend für die immer stärkere Vernetzung von Gegenständen im privaten Lebensbereich und die damit einhergehende Problematik der bewussten und unbewussten Preisgabe personenbezogener Daten. Wir haben für die Untersuchung mit Bedacht ein Alltagsprodukt gewählt, welches auch von Menschen ohne Technikaffinität genutzt wird. Mit dem Weg und der Verwertung von Verbraucherdaten werden wir uns sicherlich auch darüber hinaus weiter beschäftigen.“

But with the introduction of GymKit, Apple hopes to make the in-gym cardio experience better. Apple's system to connect the Apple Watch to compatible gym equipment started rolling out across the globe earlier this fall, and it just hit the US this week.

President Donald Trump signed into law on Tuesday legislation that bans the use of Kaspersky Lab within the U.S. government, capping a months-long effort to purge the Moscow-based antivirus firm from federal agencies amid concerns it was vulnerable to Kremlin influence.

Three years later, Pooja, who aspires to be an actress and speaks with dramatic flourishes, recounted how she helped stop harassment near her house by joining other teenagers to tell their neighbours about the problem.

The community chipped in for a streetlamp that deters sketchy passers-by. Meanwhile, Pooja has been travelling around New Delhi to play touch rugby with a co-ed team she helps to coach.

Her new-found freedom began with a programme called "Safer Cities" that helps girls improve their own safety.

Established by Plan India - a child rights organisation - in 2014, and run in partnership with local non-governmental organisations, the programme has almost 10,000 active members, including 8,300 girls and 1,400 boys, in 40 community-based clubs in India's capital New Delhi.

Synaptics, the company responsible for handling the touch input on millions of laptop trackpads and smartphone screens, has announced this week that it’s entered mass production with its first optical in-display fingerprint sensors. Titled Clear ID, these are expected to work exactly like the home button fingerprint sensors you might have known on Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S phones before this year’s Galaxy S8 and on Apple’s iPhones before the latest iPhone X. Only they’ll be more magical because you’ll be able to authenticate by pressing on the actual display part of the touchscreen.

Facebook has taken the unusual step of directly responding to a former employee who recently excoriated the biggest social networks for “ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.” And the company’s retort might surprise some people. Facebook isn’t outright dismissing or rejecting the claims of Chamath Palihapitiya, its former vice president of user growth. Instead, the underlining message seems to be that the Facebook of today is a far cry from the company he once worked for, and his perceptions are out-of-date.