In a letter to to heads of government ministries, NCSC CEO, Ciaran Martin said that organizations “need to be vigilant to the risk that an [antivirus] product under the control of a hostile actor could extract sensitive data from that network, or indeed cause damage to the network itself.” He went on to specifically call out Russia, noting that the country is a “highly capable cyber threat actor which uses cyber as a tool of statecraft,” and that in instances where government agencies have information that would pose a threat to national security should it be accessed by Russian agents, antivirus products from Russian companies should not be used.

Bundesrechenzentrum Geschäftsführer Markus Kaiser (mit Siemens- und Atos-Erfahrung):
User würden, was die Verknüpfung von Daten betrifft, Facebook und anderen sozialen Medien mehr erlauben als dem Staat. „Dieses Modell auf den Staat zu übertragen ergäbe eine andere Servicequalität.“ Er wünscht sich eine Wahlmöglichkeit für die Bürger, mit der sie festlegen können, welche Daten Behörden verwenden dürfen.

Nach Protesten von Datenschützern beendet der Pharmakonzern Bayer die Gesichtserkennung in Apotheken. Das Thema ist dem Pharmakonzern zu kontrovers.

If you found the "Facebook emotion manipulation" paper disturbing, how would you feel about this paper which analyses the posts that you wrote on Facebook but eventually never sent, and naively assumed nobody is watching

Bonuspunkte für den Kauf gesunder Babynahrung, Abzug für Pornokonsum: In China wird das Social Credit System getestet. Es überwacht, bewertet und erzieht die Bürger.

According to Kaija Kirch, head of the Police and Border Guard Board's (PPA) Identity and Status Bureau, the police authority is still awaiting a public apology from Gemalto, the manufacturer of electronic ID cards in use in Estonia.

The UK approved an export licence for the sale of surveillance equipment to Macedonia – while the country was engaged in an illegal surveillance programme against its citizens. A senior minister was consulted on the decision

Three employees in the inspector general’s office for the Department of Homeland Security stole a computer system that contained sensitive personal information of about 246,000 agency employees, according to three United States officials and a report sent to Congress last week. They planned to modify the office’s proprietary software for managing investigative and disciplinary cases so that they could market and sell it to other inspector general offices across the federal government.

Wer kein Porträtbild von sich hochlädt, bekommt keinen Zugriff auf sein Profil: Mit dieser drastischen Methode will Facebook in seinem Netzwerk künftig möglicherweise den Unterschied zwischen Menschen und Bots erkennen.

A Canadian hacker for hire has admitted ransacking webmail accounts for miscreants accused of orchestrating the Yahoo! megahack that hit all three billion Purple Palace user accounts.

Yale University’s Privacy Lab using research to call on developers and Google ‘for increased transparency into privacy and security practice’

More than three in four Android apps contain at least one third-party “tracker”, according to a new analysis of hundreds of apps.

Licht-Management, Verkehrsleittechnik, Laden von E-Fahrzeugen und Handys, Video-Überwachung mit Polizei-Verbindung, Erneuerbare Energie-Nutzung: Diese und weitere den Menschen dienenden Kriterien erfüllt das am Dienstag in St. Pölten vorgestellte "Smart Street"-Muster-Projekt der Initiative SSGM (Smart Safe & Green Mobility). Es wird mit zehn Unternehmen in Ebreichsdorf, Melk und Vitis umgesetzt.

Vor zwei Wochen hat das Unternehmen Bkav zur Vorsicht im Umgang mit Apples iPhone X und dem Gesichtsscanner Face ID geraten. Insbesondere bekannte Politiker, Chefs großer Firmen und bekannte Persönlichkeiten sollten demnach lieber auf dessen Verwendung verzichten. Anlass dafür war, dass es den Experten gelungen war, das System erfolgreich mit einer Maske auszutricksen.

Nun hat der Sicherheitschef des vietnamesischen Unternehmens, Ngo Tuan Anh, die Warnung verschärft. Denn man hat es geschafft, eine Maske um 200 Dollar an Materialkosten herzustellen, die noch zuverlässiger funktioniert.

Facebook is using artificial intelligence to scan users’ posts for signs they’re having suicidal thoughts. When it finds someone that could be in danger, the company flags the post to human moderators who respond by sending the user resources on mental health, or, in more urgent cases, contacting first-responders who can try to find the individual.

These thieves look like they know what they are doing. They are dressed head to toe in while coveralls and their faces appear to be obscured as well. They park their car in a suburban neighborhood and park next to a new Mercedes in a driveway. They calmly get out of their car and use a wireless device to get the Mercedes's key code from the fob inside the house. Then one of the men gets in the Mercedes and drives away. No broken glass, no alarms. Time elapsed - less than 60 seconds.

End-of-life care can be stressful for patients and their loved ones, but a new algorithm could help provide better care to people during their final months.

Essentially, it's machine-learning-powered software that can use the front-facing camera on a smartphone to pick out faces, identify anyone who isn't the owner, and if they are gazing at the screen, alert the user that there's someone behind them snooping on their texts or web browsing, and so on, all in real time.

Like the frog in the pot, it happened slowly. Over the course of my thirty-five year career, we’ve seen a steady shift from selling people things (hardware and software) to selling people to things - surveillance capitalism.

That all accelerated when the

Reporting into the April incident, the Ombudsman found there was "insufficient awareness" of journalist warrant requirements within the Professional Standards Unit (PRS) of the AFP; that a number of PRS officers did not "appear to fully appreciate their responsibilities when exercising metadata powers"; that the AFP relied on manual checks and corporate knowledge rather than proper processes; and that documentation was not effective in preventing the breach.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics have defeated facial recognition on big social media platforms – by removing faces from photos and replacing them with automatically-painted replicas.