China “does not have the stringent privacy laws that Western companies have, nor are Chinese citizens against having their data collected, as (arguably speaking) government monitoring is a fact of China,” analysts with the research firm Sanford C. Bernstein wrote in a report in November.

The Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government has published a nonpartisan Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook, as part of its Defending Digital Democracy project (previously, "designed to give you simple, actionable information that will make your campaign’s information more secure from adversaries trying to attack your organization—and our democracy." 

The company says evidence of "unauthorized access" has appeared during a recent investigation.

Politicians regularly share their log-in details with staff and interns, according to Twitter postings by one MP

In this system, the lines of a user's palm become the key to revealing a password. Samsung depicts the hint as incomplete letters that are seemingly randomly positioned on the screen.

However, the position of each partial letter is customized to the enrolled user's palm. When users hold their palm up to the rear camera and the device recognizes it, the lines of the palm displayed on the screen help reveal the characters in a password. That's still just a hint given that it doesn't necessarily reveal their order.

Under-fire Cabinet Office minister Damian Green has reportedly told an internal government enquiry that he has proof he was not the one who downloaded porn onto his Parliamentary computer

Facebook Messenger, a photo and text messaging service, will soon be joined by Messenger Kids, a stand-alone app that allows children aged 13 and under to use the service.

While Touch ID is meant to secure a phone against unwanted users gaining access to your phone, the way Touch ID was designed allowed users to create multiple fingerprint IDs. The idea presumably is to allow users to use different fingers to unlock their phones, but it also meant that you could create fingerprint profiles for different users.

A federal lawsuit earlier filed this week accuses Casper, the direct-to-consumer mattress startup, and a software company named NaviStone of illegally collecting information from visitors to the Casper website in an attempt to learn their identities

Android developers given 60 days to inform users, after that apps will do it for themselves

Auffallend dabei ist, dass die jungen Unternehmen fast alle im Ausland angesiedelt Sinn. Eine Tatsache, die eventuell dem Umstand geschuldet ist, dass hierzulande ein Wust an Regularien und Bestimmungen medizinische Innovationen erschweren.

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.