Als E-Mail-Lösung kommt Microsofts Outlook zum Einsatz. Eine gesonderte Ausschreibung habe es dafür nicht gegeben, heißt es auf Anfrage des STANDARD aus dem Bildungsministerium, "da die bereits bestehende MS-ACH-Vereinbarung (Microsoft Austrian College und High School Agreement) seinerzeit über einen Rahmenvertrag mit der Bundesbeschaffungsgesellschaft (BBG) geschlossen wurde", so Ministeriumssprecherin Patrizia Pappacena.

Über 90 Prozent der ÖAMTC-Mitglieder wollen selbst entscheiden, welche Daten im Auto sie den Herstellern zur Verfügung stellen. Diese sehen die Datenhoheit bei sich selbst.

FPÖ und Grüne sind mit dem Versuch gescheitert, die 2016 fixierte Verschärfung des Staatsschutzgesetzes beim VfGH zu Fall zu bringen. Ihr Drittelantrag wurde ab- bzw. teils aus Formalgründen zurückgewiesen. Vorbeugender Schutz vor drohenden Angriffen auf den Rechtsstaat ist verfassungskonform, unterstrich der VfGH.

Der Bayerische Rundfunk hat ein Datenleck beim Fahrradverleiher Obike enthüllt. Einfallstor waren Social-Media-Funktionen der Obike-App. Durch diese konnten Hacker theoretisch den Zugriff auf persönliche Daten der Nutzer erhalten. Laut BR waren etwa E-Mail-Adressen, Profilfotos und "exakte Bewegungsdaten von Fahrten" unverschlüsselt abrufbar.

Private Computer, der heimische Fernseher und alle anderen digitalen Geräte sollen offenbar nach Plänen des amtierenden Innenministers mit einer Hintertüre ausgestattet werden, die Geheimdiensten und Polizeien den Zugriff erlaubt. Die Maßnahme wäre nicht nur ein großer Schritt in den Überwachungsstaat, sie gefährdet auch die digitale und physische Sicherheit aller Bürger.

Xi Jinping verteidigt auf Welt-Internet-Konferenz staatliche Internet-Kontrolle. Auch die Silicon-Valley-Prominenz war trotz der Blockade ihrer Dienste vertreten.

The Sheriff's Office needed a better way to identify unknown suspects, so it turned to AWS Rekognition and now uses machine learning to locate persons of interest within a matter of minutes.

To democratize the internet, we need to do more than force private ISPs to abide by certain rules. We need to turn those ISPs into publicly owned utilities. We need to take internet service off the market, and transform it from a consumer good into a social right.

Global shipping firm Clarksons has warned that confidential data stolen as a result of a "cybersecurity incident" could be made public, following the company's refusal to pay a ransom to hackers.

In a statement, the shipbroker, one of the largest in its sector, said that it had fallen victim to a "criminal attack" in which attackers gained unauthorised access to the company's computer systems via the use of a "single and isolated user account" which Clarksons has since disabled.

NHS England has been slammed after more than 700,000 patient records went undelivered.

The influential House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said that it is "deeply unimpressed by the lack of grip" the body has on the handling of clinical correspondence, years after it started looking into the issue.

Under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, nicknamed the 'Snoopers Charter', communications companies can be required to retain customers' communications data for up to 12 months. The government describes communications data as the who, where, when, how, and with whom of a communication, but does not include what was written or said.

But in December last year the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the powers of the UK's surveillance legislation were too wide and did not comply with EU law.

In response to the ECJ ruling, the government now plans to make a number of changes, such as introducing a new independent body to authorise communications data requests. Previously, senior police were able to authorise requests.

My task is to ensure that the folks at the hearing understand how prevalent breaches are, how broadly they're distributed and the resultant impact on identity verification via knowledge-based authentication. I've had some great suggestions around tackling the root cause of data breaches and I'd love to have another opportunity in the future to talk about that, but it goes beyond the specific focus of this hearing.

Google is launching another stylish and simple Android app designed to help people manage one of the core functions of their phone — in this case, data usage.

The app is called Datally, and it’s supposed to help you understand where you data is going and cut down on how much you’re using. Datally will show which apps are using data the most and at what times your data is getting used up; it’ll also recommend ways to cut down data usage based on your own activity and suggest nearby Wi-Fi networks for you to connect to.

Google may be forced to pay out compensation to more than 5 million Brits if a class action lawsuit in the UK is successful. A group, labeling itself “Google You Owe Us,” is taking Google to court, claiming it unlawfully collected personal information by bypassing privacy settings on Apple’s iPhone Safari browser. Google, Facebook, and several other online advertising networks were caught in 2012 using a workaround to bypass restrictions, allowing the companies to deposit cookies on an iPhone even if the device was set to block them.

Apple has launched a new app today that will allow the company to gather irregular heart rhythm data from the Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor. Called the Apple Heart Study app, it will detect irregularities and send notifications to users who may be suffering from atrial fibrillation (AFib).

The company imagines that the virtual assistant will help employees launch conference calls, organize room bookings, and even wrangle with their expenses.

Facebook announced a wider availability of its new Customer Chat service today, which lets businesses talk with users both on their own websites and within Facebook Messenger. Customer Chat is essentially a website plugin that brings the Facebook Messenger experience to any retailer’s website, which lets the customer support representatives then converse with customers as if they were chatting with a friend on Facebook.

Law enforcement agencies investigating digital crimes are overwhelmed. All this has sparked renewed interest in “hacking back”—or allowing the victims of breaches to pursue attackers through cyberspace themselves.

Today, such vigilantes would be breaking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a law that makes it illegal to access third-party computers without prior authorization. Draft legislation currently making its way through the House of Representatives aims to change that. The Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act would let victims access computers that aren’t theirs in order to track down digital assailants and stolen data.

om Colella worked for 20 years as an Instrument Electrical Tradesperson for Aroona Alliance in Western Australia, until he was fired in on Sept 20, 2016 for sneaking off to play golf every Wednesday afternoon and hiding his absences from his employer by putting the PDA that he was obliged to carry -- in order to track his movements -- in a mylar potato-chip bag that acted as a Faraday cage and prevented it from receiving GPS signals and other location-identifying beacons and storing or communicating his location for his employer.

This might seem like no big deal, but it’s actually the latest sign that cloud-based machine learning is about to take the software industry by storm—and, by extension, to rewire the entire economy. Using Amazon’s new platform, developers can collaborate in real time to tap into powerful, cloud-based AI that they can bake into a new generation of apps and Web services. This will mean learning new ways of thinking about software, and it should lead to the rise of everyday software that behaves with more intelligence.

This shift promises to be the biggest transition for the software world in decades. The easy availability of on-demand machine learning, combined with tools for automating the design and training of AI models, should, in fact, have an increasing impact on overall economic productivity, according to some economists.