BCM-News Daily Digest
- Apps: 70 Prozent lassen User von Dritten tracken | PRIKK
Das Gros der Smartphone-Anwendungen sammelt nicht nur Daten, sondern reicht diese auch an externe Firmen weiter. Das haben Mitarbeiter des International Computer Science Insitute rund um Narseo Vallina jetzt klargestellt: Denn sie haben den Spieß umgedreht und die Tracker selbst getrackt. - Verdächtige Briefe mit Pulver in Hamburg aufgetaucht – Panorama-News – Süddeutsche.de
Bei zwei Gerichten in Hamburg und an der Hauptfeuerwehrwache am Berliner Tor sind am Mittwoch Briefe mit verdächtigem Pulver eingegangen. In allen bisher untersuchten Fällen habe sich das Pulver als harmlos herausgestellt, sagte ein Feuerwehrsprecher. - Lithium battery fire forces SFO-bound flight to make emergency landing – SFGate.com
A JetBlue flight headed to SFO from JFK was forced to make an emergency landing in Grand Rapids, Michigan after a lithium battery in a passenger's laptop started a fire. - Trump to World Leaders: 'Call Me Maybe' on My Cellphone – Bloomberg
President Donald Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and urging them to call him directly, an unusual invitation that breaks diplomatic protocol and is raising concerns about the security and secrecy of the U.S. commander in chief's communications. - The Hunt for North Korea's Hackers: 'How Do You Know Who I Am?' – WSJ
North Korea's B Team infected nine sites–belonging to trade associations, research institutes and industry groups–that are frequented by lawmakers, military officials and diplomats. Visitors unknowingly picked up viruses that planted malware onto their computers, bypassing the digital defenses erected by their battle-tested employers. - 100m dead: The deadliest disease in history | The Economist
BY EARLY 1920, nearly two years after the end of the first world war and the first outbreak of Spanish flu, the disease had killed as many as 100m people– more than both world wars combined. Yet few would name it as the biggest disaster of the 20th century. Some call it the "forgotten flu". - Outsourcing IT poses risks in Britain and in India | Letters | Technology | The Guardian
British Airways and many other businesses have offshored electricity-dependent functions like IT services and call centres to northern India (BA chief refuses to resign after 'catastrophic' IT failure, 30 May). Increasingly this is a region in the grip of extended droughts and annual heatwaves associated with record-breaking temperatures that scientists say will only get worse with climate change.
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