En 18-årig man från Växjö åtalas i dag för it-attacker som genomfördes mot svenska banker 2015. Avgörande bevisning som samlades in under sommaren gjorde att åklagaren nu efter två års tid kan väcka åtal.– Tidigare hackerattacker har riktat sig mot hemsidor men det här är unikt då jag åtalat mot banker som mål för attacken, och de är skyddsvärda mål, säger Anna Svedin kammaråklagare.Attackerna ska ha skett i oktober och november 2015. Det gäller två överbelastningsattacker mot Swedbank och två attacker mot Nordea. Bankernas hemsidor låg då nere under flera timmar.– Man kan sitta i Sverige och utföra attacken men använda servrar i andra länder. Avgörandet kom genom engelsk polis som gjorde ett tillslag och hittade spår av de svenska dataintrången. Sedan hittades också en server i Frankrike som gjorde att vi kunde se hur attackerna genomförts, säger Anna Svedin.

Along with dropping a new iOS 11.1 beta, Apple also released the second beta builds for macOS 10.13.1, tvOS 11.1 and watchOS 4.1.The new batch of betas come about two weeks after Apple seeded the last set of betas to developers and come with a host of bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements for Apple’s platforms.Registered developers can grab all three new betas from the Apple developer center. They can also be downloaded via over-the-air updates if you have the previous beta builds installed on your devices.

THE NSA IS one of the world’s most notoriously secretive and powerful government agencies, guarding its powerful hacking tools and massive caches of collected data under layers of security clearances and world-class technical protections. But it turns out that three times in three years, that expensive security has been undone by one of its own contract employees simply carrying those secrets out the door.In 2013, an NSA contractor named Edward Snowden walked out of the agency’s building in Oahu, Hawaii, carrying a USB drive full of thousands of top-secret documents. Last year, a 53-year-old Booz Allen contractor for the NSA named Hal Martin was arrested last year for taking 50 terabytes out of the agency over a period as long two decades. And Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that in 2015, a third contract employee of the NSA in as many years took home a trove of classified materials that included both software code and other information that the agency uses in its offensive hacking operations, as well as details of how it protects US systems from hacker adversaries.

Apple CEO Tim Cook will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, according to an official agenda item, marking just his second official visit to France as CEO.The event will take place at 4:15 p.m. local time, or 10:15 a.m. Eastern. No discussion topics have been made public.Cook could use the opportunity to pressure Macron on taxes, since the French and German governments have been spearheading efforts to close European loopholes used by multinational corporations. Apple in particular has exploited Irish rules to pay taxes as low as 0.005 percent, despite funneling billions of dollars in international revenue through the country.

With its iPhone X debut and the introduction of Face ID, Apple has now tilted interest in the mobile industry away from under-display fingerprint recognition, and instead towards camera-based 3D sensing technologies as the ideal user authentication solution. That’s according to the latest research note from respected KGI securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. According to the new note seen by MacRumors, inquiries by Android smartphone vendors into 3D-sensing technologies have at least tripled since Apple unveiled its TrueDepth camera and Face ID technology, whoch replaces traditional Touch ID fingerprint recognition in the iPhone X, set to launch in November.

French company CamToy recently launched an Indiegogo campaign for Laïka, an interactive smart companion for your dog. Laïka lets you keep an eye on your pets, play with them and give them treats, even if you aren’t at home.See at IndiegogoHow does it work?Laïka is a little robot a bit like a Roomba that connects to the Laïka app on your smart phone. It’s completely chew-proof, and is equipped with a camera, microphone, treat dispenser and speaker. It also comes with its own charging base that it rolls into when your dog has finished playing.