The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has accidentally leaked sensitive data from at least two unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 repositories, according to Kromtech Security Center.

Criminals are exploiting “fake news” for commercial gain, according to new research.

Fake news is widely assumed to be political or ideological propaganda published to sway public opinion, but new research conducted by threat intel firm Digital Shadows and released on Thursday suggested fake news generation services are now aimed at causing financial and reputational damage for companies through disinformation campaigns.

According to El Diario, the authorities responded to Infineon's October vulnerability disclosure by revoking, on November 6, all certificates issued since April 2015.

What's more, the authorities have stopped letting people sign things with the card at the self-service terminals found at many police stations.

That decision affects every card, not only those that have the flaw.

But there is as yet no indication of when the affected cards will be updated. Indeed, there doesn't seem to be much official information out there at all, something which has not gone unnoticed in the Spanish tech press.

"Neither the police nor other public bodies have given more information through their social media accounts about the impact of the vulnerability and how to act if affected," said Xataka.

Die Allianz-Versicherung spricht sich strikt gegen den Einsatz von Fitness-Armbändern für Bonusprogramme aus. „Eine Krankenversicherung darf den Tarif nicht vom persönlichen Verhalten abhängig machen. Das ist in Deutschland nicht erlaubt, und auch nicht richtig“, sagt Daniel Bahr, Vorstand der privaten Krankenversicherung Allianz, in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung. „Wir werden so etwas nicht tun.“

London's Metropolitan Police force's use of "intrusive" technologies "without proper regulation" could put a fundamental principle of policing at risk, the London mayor has been told.

In a letter to Sadiq Khan, the Greater London Assembly – the group elected to hold the mayor to account – expressed "significant concerns" about facial recognition technology.

Eating popcorn in the cinema may be irritating not just for fellow movie goers, but for advertisers: a group of researchers from Cologne University has concluded that chewing makes us immune to film advertising.

In broad terms, the fight over section 702 of America's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) comes down to a single issue: should the powers within it that allow the intelligence services to intercept and store communications on foreign intelligence targets be extended to cover US citizens?

German regulator has banned the sale of smartwatches aimed at children, describing them as spying devices.

Al Jazeera talks to Stephen Roberts, professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, on the role machine learning plays in our lives today - and in the future.

EFF has just launched its new Announcing the Security Education Companion, a beautifully organized, clearly written set of materials to help "people who would like to help their communities learn about digital security but are new to the art of security training." 

Die FPÖ ist natürlich umgefallen und will jetzt doch den #Bundestrojaner (Zugriff auf Messenger)

Your essay on The Morality of Manipulation is so profoundly detached from even a basic understanding of human nature and the reality of self-interest that I’m still not sure whether or not you are trolling us.

A New York state judge has concluded that a powerful police surveillance tool known as a cell-site simulator, a device that spoofs legitimate mobile phone towers, is a "search" and therefore requires a warrant under most circumstances.

Since the iPhone X has hit the market, people have been trying all sorts of ways to trick the phone’s Face ID feature, including this creepy, cobbled-together mask. While Apple has admitted that false positives can happen, it was thought this could only happen with twins, or siblings under the age of 13. However, a new video has popped up showing a 10-year-old unlocking his mother’s iPhone, suggesting that any family members who bear enough resemblance might be able to bypass the system.

Two leading European consumer groups -- the UK's Which? and Germany's Stiftung Warentest -- have published an advisory with the results of their lab tests on the security of kids' connected toys, warning that these toys are insecure and could allow strangers to listen in and talk to your kids over the internet

A London Times investigation revealed that Russia employed a large army of Twitter accounts to "sow discord" before the Brexit vote. And it appears to have been quite successful, as newspapers like The Sun and Mail Online published tweets from the bogus accounts

Security researchers from Rhino Security Labs have shown that it is trivial to disable the Amazon Cloud Cam that is a crucial component of the Amazon Keyproduct -- a connected home door-lock that allows delivery personnel to open your locked front door and leave your purchases inside -- and have demonstrated attacks that would allow thieves to exploit this weakness to rob your home

In a paper published on the ArXiv, researchers from the University of California, San Diego, and Adobe have outlined a way for AI to not only learn a person’s style but create computer-generated images of items that match that style. The system could let retailers create personalized pieces of clothing, or could even be used to help predict broader fashion trends.

potentially the most problematic aspects of Brexit are not the big issues but the small technical details: too small to merit day-to-day attention but too important to be left to float on the tides of the Brexit seas.

One such issue is potentially data transfers between the UK and the EU after Brexit. Although not as immediate or striking as the Irish border issue, nor as politically engaging as the issue of devolution and Brexit this has the potential to derail UK trade post Brexit across every sector of the economy from finance to manufacturing by way of education, agriculture, and media and entertainment. The reason for such a potentially catastrophic outcome is because as first observed by Clive Humby, the architect of Tesco’s Clubcard scheme, in 2006 and oft repeated since, “data is the new oil”.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s optimism about the future of the web is starting to wane in the face of a “nasty storm” of issues including the rollback of net neutrality protections, the proliferation of fake news, propaganda and the web’s increasing polarisation.