British Airways apologises for check-in failure
Passengers at Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports
had to be checked in manually and faced long queues and delays.
BA said the fault was resolved at about 09:00 BST and its
computerised system was now operating normally.
It comes after a power cut led to hundreds of
flights being cancelled over the May bank holiday weekend.
Failure to delete data when no longer needed.
Kevin Collier reports:
When 650 thousand Tennesseans
voted in the Memphis area, they probably didn’t expect their personal
information would eventually be picked apart at a hacker conference at Caesars
Palace Las Vegas.
[…]
But hackers given access to an
ExpressPoll-5000 electronic poll book—the kind of device used to check in voters on Election Day—have
discovered the personal records of 654,517 people who voted in Shelby Country,
Tennessee.
Read more on Gizmodo.
Trying to access US data stored abroad? Like those Microsoft emails in Ireland. Will it pass?
Senate bill would ease law enforcement access to overseas
data
Senators introduced bipartisan legislation Tuesday that
would create a legal framework allowing law enforcement to access Americans'
electronic communications in servers located in other countries.
The International Communications Privacy Act from Sens.
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) would also require law
enforcement to notify other countries of such data collection on their citizens
in accordance with their laws.
The bill also allows law enforcement to get communications
regarding foreign nationals in certain instances.
(Related). Could it
be that someone is beginning to understand basic security?
U.S. senators to introduce bill to secure 'internet of
things'
The new bill would require vendors that provide
internet-connected equipment to the U.S. government to ensure their products are patchable and conform to industry
security standards. It would also prohibit vendors from supplying devices that have
unchangeable passwords or possess known security vulnerabilities.
Republicans Cory Gardner and Steve Daines and Democrats Mark Warner and Ron
Wyden are sponsoring the legislation, which was drafted with input from
technology experts at the Atlantic Council and Harvard University.
For my Computer Forensics students?
Alex Hern reports:
A judge’s porn preferences and
the medication used by a German MP were among the personal data uncovered by
two German researchers who acquired the “anonymous” browsing habits of more
than three million German citizens.
“What would you think,” asked
Svea Eckert, “if somebody showed up at your door saying: ‘Hey, I have your
complete browsing history – every day, every hour, every minute, every click
you did on the web for the last month’? How
would you think we got it: some shady hacker? No. It
was much easier: you can just buy it.”
Read more on The
Guardian.
Anything to help…
Microsoft Word has a new trick up its sleeve, and it
should help anyone who struggles with the written word. The new feature is called Read Aloud, and it’s a significant improvement on the previous
text-to-speech offerings in Word. Let’s
hope this helps eradicate typos once and for all.
… Read Aloud is a
new feature which has arrived as part of the latest Office 365 updates. Read Aloud does exactly what you’d expect it
to do, with Word reading your document back to you. However, Word can now highlight each word as
it’s read aloud right from within your workflow. … Read Aloud, which is listed under the Review
tab, is currently only available to Office Insiders. However, Microsoft promises it will become
widely available to the general population “later this year”. Which, in Microsoft parlance, means anytime
between now and December 31st.
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