Det kan ta en timme för Försvarets radioanstalts professionella hackare att ta sig in i svenska myndigheters IT-system. I vissa fall avbryter man säkerhetsgranskningen tills de mest elementära bristerna är åtgärdade.– Tyvärr ser vi hos många myndigheter att man man inte uppfyller säkerheten, säger informationschef Anni Bölenius.I början av april var Försvarets radioanstalt, FRA, med och avslöjade en omfattande internationell cyberattack, riktad mot företag som sköter IT-tjänster och deras kunder. Angreppet, kallat Cloud Hopper, ska ha pågått sedan 2016 men tros ha påbörjats redan 2014.Flera svenska myndigheter och företag drabbades när deras IT-leverantör utsattes för attacken.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday asked the chief executives of Alphabet Inc, Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc, AT&T Inc, Verizon Communications Inc and other companies to testify at a Sept. 7 hearing on the future of net neutrality rules.The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is considering tossing out 2015 Obama administration net neutrality rules that reclassified internet service like a public utility. The rules bar providers from blocking, slowing or offering paid prioritization of websites. Many internet providers want Congress to step in and write permanent rules.

Over 45,000 users have left one-star reviews on a company’s Facebook page after the business reported a security researcher to police and had him arrested in the middle of the night instead of fixing a reported bug.The arrest took place this week in Hungary after an 18-year-old found a flaw in the online ticket-selling system of Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (BKK), Budapest’s public transportation authority.Teen hacks company using browser’s DevToolsThe young man discovered that he could access BKK’s website, press F12 to enter the browser’s developer tools mode, and modify the page’s source code to alter a ticket’s price.Because there was no client or server-side validation put in place, the BKK system accepted the operation and issued a ticket at a smaller price.As a demo, the young man says he bought a ticket initially priced at 9459 Hungarian forints ($35) for 50 Hungarian forints (20 US cents).

We know by now that the internet is a giant playpen, a landscape of toys, distractions and instant gratification, of chirps and squeaks and bright, shiny things – plus, to be sure, ugly, horrid beasties lurking in all the softness – apparently without horizon. Graphics – rounded corners, lower case, Google’s primary colours, Twitter’s birdie, Facebook’s shades of blue – enhance the innocence and infantilism. It is a world, as Jonathan Franzen once said, “so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self”. Until we chance on the bars of the playpen and find that there are places we can’t go and that it is in the gift of the grown-ups on the other side to set or move the limits to our freedom.

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald Trump, who acts as his senior White House adviser, secured a multimillion-dollar Manhattan real estate deal with a Soviet-born oligarch whose company was cited in a major New York money laundering case now being investigated by members of Congress.Trump not convinced Russian meddling took place, communications chief says Read moreA Guardian investigation has established a series of overlapping ties and relationships involving alleged Russian money laundering, New York real estate deals and members of Trump’s inner circle. They include a 2015 sale of part of the old New York Times building in Manhattan involving Kushner and a billionaire real estate tycoon and diamond mogul, Lev Leviev.

Colonel Kurtz used to spend hours playing social games like Farmville. Now he hunts terrorists on the internet.Counter-terrorism was never meant to be Silicon Valley’s job. Is that why it’s failing? Read moreThe pseudonymous 41-year-old, who runs his own construction company, is one of dozens of volunteer “hunters” to dedicate hours each day trying to identify and infiltrate terror groups online and block the spread of their propaganda.“We’re trying to save lives and get this crap off the net to keep the next vulnerable kid from seeing propaganda and thinking it’s cool,” said Kurtz.These hunters plug a gap in social media companies’ ability to keep terrorists off their networks by obsessively tracking and reporting Isis’s most prominent recruiters and propagandists across private messaging apps like Telegram and WhatsApp and public networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Some of them also provide valuable tip-offs of credible threats to law enforcement.