New research suggests that fewer than half of industrial businesses are even monitoring for suspicious entry into their systems.

Car rental companies should offer customers explicit information on what happens to data that has been sucked up by connected cars, a civil rights group has said.

As harmful material continues to appear on sites like YouTube and Facebook, companies rely on journalists and citizens to flag it – and the system is failing

If you thought the business of discovering unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 buckets was for the pros, think again: like all things, the process can be automated, and the code to automate it posted to GitHub.

YouTube is planning to add thousands of human reviewers to remove videos that violated its guidelines while teaching computers how to spot troublesome videos.Credit

Tenta, the Seattle company behind an Android browser aimed at guarding the privacy of mobile web users, has built what it calls one of the first public DNS resolvers to support DNS-over-TLS — an extra precaution to keep Internet Service Providers and others from seeing which websites a user visits.

Apple Tim Cook has been attacked repeatedly in recent months for agreeing to Chinese government demands that no VPN apps be allowed in the Apple Store, but gave a speech at the conference in which he said that Apple was "proud to have worked alongside many of our partners in China to help build a community that will join a common future in cyberspace."

The US government does not need the approval of its secret surveillance court to ask a tech company to build an encryption backdoor.

The government made its remarks in July in response to questions posed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), but they were only made public this weekend

A Michigan man who hacked into his local prison's computing system to gain early release for a friend is facing his own time inside after getting caught.



In a stern warning to the New Orleans City Council, the city’s top police watchdog has criticized a plan to expand surveillance without also expanding oversight. The Office of Independent Police Monitor (OIPM) warned that the city is on a path that may lead to abuse, racial discrimination, and fiscal waste. 

Internet groups such as Facebook (FB.O), Google’s YouTube (GOOGL.O) and Twitter (TWTR.N) need to do more to stem the proliferation of extremist content on their platforms, the European Commission said after a meeting on Wednesday.

70'000 Zugangsdaten zu Web-Diensten wurden in der Schweiz gestohlen. Die Bundesstelle sagt nicht, um welche Dienste es sich handelt. Warum eigentlich?

Three years ago, we said the Echo was “the most innovative device Amazon’s made in years.” That’s still true. But you shouldn’t buy one. You shouldn’t buy one for your family. You definitely should not buy one for your friends. In fact, ignore any praise we’ve ever heaped onto smart speakers and voice-controlled assistants. They’re bad!

This report describes a campaign of targeted malware attacks apparently carried out by Ethiopia from 2016 until the present. In the attacks we document, targets receive via email a link to a malicious website impersonating an online video portal. When a target clicks on the link, they are invited to download and install an Adobe Flash update (containing spyware) before viewing the video. In some cases, targets are instead prompted to install a fictitious app called “Adobe PdfWriter” in order to view a PDF file. Our analysis traces the spyware to a heretofore unobserved player in the commercial spyware space: Israel’s Cyberbit, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems. The spyware appears to be a product called PC Surveillance System (PSS), recently renamed PC 360.

Intel and Foxconn have demonstrated use cases for 5G-based edge computing facial-recognition technology across payments, smart retailing, and access to residential and business buildings.

Bug-Bounty-Programm soll bei der Fehlersuche helfen – Wird auf Rechnern im Europäischen Parlament eingesetzt

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Nach dem Grundsatz der „einmaligen Erfassung“ müssen Bürger wichtige Daten nur einmal vorlegen, heißt es in Brüssel. Diese Informationen sollen anschließend auf Antrag des Nutzers zugänglich gemacht werden, so dass sie für die meisten wichtigen grenzüberschreitenden Verfahren wiederverwendet werden können. Der EU-Datenschutzbeauftragte Giovanni Buttarelli hatte im Sommer bei diesem vorgesehenen „Once-only“-Prinzip noch Fragen im Hinblick die Privatsphäre der Beteiligten gesehen. Er vermisste etwa eine klare Rechtsbasis und zweifelte die Vereinbarkeit mit den Prinzipien der Zweckbestimmung und der Datensparsamkeit an

Das Videoportal Youtube hat die Verbreitung eines Videos eingeschränkt, das Gewalthandlungen gegen das Künstlerkollektiv Zentrum für politische Schönheit (ZPS) zeigt. Das Video ist in Deutschland, weiten Teilen von Europa und in französischen Überseeterritorien nicht mehr verfügbar. Für Nutzer aus anderen Ländern wird ein Warnhinweis gezeigt, gleichzeitig sind Kommentare, Teilen und das „Mag ich“-Symbol deaktiviert.

Die National Credit Federation bietet Hilfe für Menschen mit niedriger Kreditwürdigkeit an. Durch einen Fehler waren deren Daten allerdings für alle zugänglich in der Cloud ablegt.