The U.S. opted Tuesday not to ban laptops from the cabins of planes flying to the United States from Europe — although the Trump administration later said such a move remains ”on the table” as it examines intelligence about terrorist threats.European sources said the matter appeared closed for now after weeks of back-and-forth negotiations and panicked responses from airlines.“No ban,” a European Commission official said after a conference call Tuesday between U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and two of his European counterparts. “Both sides have agreed to intensify technical talks and try to find a common solution.”In a statement, DHS said Kelly and the Europeans agreed ”on the need to raise the bar for aviation security globally, including through a range of potential seen and unseen enhancements.” It added: ”Secretary Kelly affirmed he will implement any and all measures necessary to secure commercial aircraft flying to the United States — including prohibiting large electronic devices from the passenger cabin — if the intelligence and threat level warrant it.”

USA:s president Donald Trump har lämnat ut sitt mobilnummer till andra länders ledare och uppmanat dem att ringa honom direkt.Gesten bryter mot det diplomatiska protokollet och väcker oro över säkerheten kring hans kommunikation.Mexikos ledare har fått mobilnumret, uppger källor. Kanadas premiärminister Justin Trudeau ska ha använt sig av numret och Trump ska även ha bytt nummer med Frankrikes nye president Emmanuel Macron, enligt en fransk källa, skriver LA Times.Även om Trump använder sin jobbmobil riskerar hans samtal att avlyssnas av andra regeringar, enligt säkerhetsexperter.– Om du är Macron eller ledare för vilket land som helst och du får mobilnumret till USA:s president, är det rimligt att anta att det lämnas över till landets säkerhetstjänst, säger Ashley Deeks, juridikprofessor vid University of Virginia, till tidningen.

A British political party will be the victim of a hack similar to those suffered by the Clinton and Macron presidential campaigns, a leading security researcher has warned.James Norton, a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security and head of the security consultancy Play-Action Strategies, said: “It wouldn’t surprise me if there’s already been some emails stolen … it would surprise me if it didn’t happen.”It was a matter of when, not if, a hack would take place, he said. “Campaigns are a treasure trove, especially newer campaigns where you’re trying to understand the dynamics … I would think they would be targets, if they’re not already, in terms of trying to understand what their politics would be. Even Theresa May is largely an unknown.”Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate – sent direct to you Read moreThe EU’s head of information security has previously advised that the risk of hacking attacks greatly increases following the dissolution of parliament. Dr Udo Helmbrecht cautioned candidates that any one of the thousands of political campaigns active over the election period could serve as a bulkhead from whoch to penetrate deeper into party machinery.

Ännu en våg av försök till Bank-id-kapningar slår mot svenska abonnenter. Enligt polisen kan tusentals ha klickat på den länk bedragarna skickar ut i sms eller mejl med intentionen att lura till sig känsliga konto- och personuppgifter. – Jag fick en konstig känsla i magen, säger Anna Forsell, en av dem som mottagit sms:en.Det var måndag vid 15-tiden som det plingade till i Anna Forsells mobiltelefon. Sms:et kom från ett konstigt nummer, stilrent designat med den enkla uppmaningen ”Verifiera din identitet”, följt av en länk.– Min första tanke var kanske att jag skulle klicka på länken, det kändes som att sms:et skulle kunna vara från Bank-id, säger Anna Forsell, och fortsätter:–  Men man har ju hört om identitetskapningar, det har varit mycket sådant på tapeten senaste tiden.Några minuter senare kom ett likadant sms, fast från ett annat avsändarnummer, vilket gjorde henne mer misstänksam.

A North Korean firm, Ryonghung, has reportedly launched a tablet called the ”iPad,” seemingly exploiting international trademarks in the knowledge that Apple is unlikely to come knocking.The North Korean product is a low-powered machine with a quad-core, 1.2-gigahertz processor, 1 gigabyte of RAM, and just 8 gigabytes of storage, according to NK News. It does however come with a keyboard and HDMI, both of whoch are paid add-ons for Apple’s iPad.Ryonghung’s product is claimed to have ”more than 40 apps,” although some of these may have to be loaded through SD cards. While it’s also said to have ”network connection” capabilities, users are likely to be forced onto North Korea’s highly-restricted intranet.Gizmodo noted that the hardware appears similar to an Android tablet seen in North Korean stores as far back as 2013.In fact the country has sometimes seen other imitations of Apple products, such as an iMac clone, and an operating system called Red Star 3.0, whoch mimicked OS X.

Twitter today added a new feature to Direct Messages that will sort them into “Inbox” and “Requests.” The latter will contain DMs from people you do not currently follow, if you have opted to keep your DM open in the first place. You can preview the message and choose to hit accept or delete. Accepting the message will allow that user to continue message you in the future without getting sorted into the request tab. The sender will not know whether or not you’ve seen their message until you hit accept.We gave this a quick spin and it looks like Twitter is still rolling the feature out — when I received a message from someone I didn’t follow, my Android app did not alert me with a push notification or a new message when I selected the Messages tab. On the web version of Twitter, however, there was a badge notification for the new message, but no Requests tab.