Android-Tracker vs. Airtags: Mehr Datenschutz, weniger Dinge finden

Über Googles Netzwerk lassen sich Tracker auch aus der Ferne orten. Im Test vergleichen wir Android-Tracker mit dem Goldstandard – Apples Airtags. Ein Praxistest von Tobias Költzsch (Airtag, Google)

Über Googles Netzwerk lassen sich Tracker auch aus der Ferne orten. Im Test vergleichen wir Android-Tracker mit dem Goldstandard - Apples Airtags. Ein Praxistest von Tobias Költzsch (Airtag, Google)

Anzeige: NIS2-Richtlinie in der Unternehmenssicherheitsstrategie

Die NIS2-Richtlinie der EU erweitert die Anforderungen für Cybersicherheit in Unternehmen. Dieser Workshop zeigt, wie sich NIS2 effektiv in bestehende IT-Sicherheitskonzepte einbinden lässt, um Compliance-Anforderungen zu erfüllen. (Golem Karrierewelt,…

Die NIS2-Richtlinie der EU erweitert die Anforderungen für Cybersicherheit in Unternehmen. Dieser Workshop zeigt, wie sich NIS2 effektiv in bestehende IT-Sicherheitskonzepte einbinden lässt, um Compliance-Anforderungen zu erfüllen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Unternehmenssoftware)

China orbits first Guowang internet satellites, with thousands more to come

China launched the first 10 spacecraft in a planned constellation of 13,000 internet satellites.

The first batch of internet satellites for China's Guowang megaconstellation launched Monday on the country's heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket.

The satellites are the first of up to 13,000 spacecraft a consortium of Chinese companies plans to build and launch over the next decade. The Guowang fleet will beam low-latency, high-speed internet signals in an architecture similar to SpaceX's Starlink network, although Chinese officials haven't laid out any specifics, such as target markets, service specifications, or user terminals.

The Long March 5B rocket took off from Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan Island, China's southernmost province, at 5:00 am EST (10:00 UTC) Monday. Ten liquid-fueled engines powered the rocket off the ground with 2.4 million pounds of thrust, steering the Long March 5B on a course south from Wenchang into a polar orbit.

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In IT? Need cash? Cybersecurity whistleblowers are earning big payouts.

The US government now relies on whistleblowers to bring many cases.

Matthew Decker is the former chief information officer for Penn State University’s Applied Research Laboratory. As of October, he's also $250,000 richer.

In his Penn State position, Decker was well placed to see that the university was not implementing all of the cybersecurity controls that were required by its various contracts with NASA and the Department of Defense (DoD). It did not, for instance, use an external cloud services provider that met the DoD's security guidelines, and it fudged some of the self-submitted "scores" it made to the government about Penn State's IT security.

So Decker sued the school under the False Claims Act, which lets private individuals bring cases against organizations on behalf of the government if they come across evidence of wrongdoing related to government contracts. In many of these cases, the government later "intervenes" to assist with the case (as it did here), but whether it does so or not, whistleblowers stand to collect a percentage of any fines if they win.

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Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matter

Correction issued for black plastic study that had people tossing spatulas.

Editors of the environmental chemistry journal Chemosphere have posted an eye-catching correction to a study reporting toxic flame retardants from electronics wind up in some household products made of black plastic, including kitchen utensils. The study sparked a flurry of media reports a few weeks ago that urgently implored people to ditch their kitchen spatulas and spoons. Wirecutter even offered a buying guide for what to replace them with.

The correction, posted Sunday, will likely take some heat off the beleaguered utensils. The authors made a math error that put the estimated risk from kitchen utensils off by an order of magnitude.

Specifically, the authors estimated that if a kitchen utensil contained middling levels of a key toxic flame retardant (BDE-209), the utensil would transfer 34,700 nanograms of the contaminant a day based on regular use while cooking and serving hot food. The authors then compared that estimate to a reference level of BDE-209 considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA's safe level is 7,000 ng—per kilogram of body weight—per day, and the authors used 60 kg as the adult weight (about 132 pounds) for their estimate. So, the safe EPA limit would be 7,000 multiplied by 60, yielding 420,000 ng per day. That's 12 times more than the estimated exposure of 34,700 ng per day.

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