c’t reveals: Critical security leak in the rescue service system IVENA Rescue control centers coordinate via the IVENA platform Hospitals supplying patient care. Due to several easily avoidable mistakes on the part of the development team, an admin password ended up in plain text online, reports c’t. Attackers could have gained full access to the system. Sabotage would have endangered human life. Not only did the editors find technical problems that could be easily remedied, but above all came across an organizational and legal patchwork of this critical infrastructure. You can read the whole story on ct.de.

Anti-morphing clause and inclusion of fingerprints for ID is fixed From August 2021 on, when applying for a new identity card, imprints of the left and right index finger will be on the radio chip of the Document saved. In addition, the passport photo must in future only be created digitally by registered photo studios and transmitted securely to the registration authorities. As part of this transfer, the biometric suitability of the photos should also be checked. It will also be possible to take a photo at the office. The Bundestag has passed a corresponding draft law with which passports and identity cards are to be further upgraded in terms of security.

Our weekday news podcast delivers the most important news of the day compressed to 2 minutes. Anyone who uses voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant can also hear or see the news there. Simply activate the skill on Alexa or say to the Google Assistant: “Play heise top”.

WhatsApp makes messages disappear WhatsApp users can now automatically delete messages after a certain period of time. The Facebook subsidiary will introduce this proven function at Signal worldwide in November. While Signal users can choose the “survival time” of a message from five seconds to a week, WhatsApp currently only offers a seven-day period. Each participant in a chat can switch the function on or off; in groups this is reserved for the administrator. The automatic deletion function only applies to the following messages in a chat or a group, not to messages that have already been sent.

After 30 years, Haskell gets his own foundation as part of the conference Haskell Exchange announced the creation of the Haskell Foundation to Simon Peyton Jones. The foundation is primarily intended to promote the spread of the programming language. Peyton Jones was one of the designers of Haskell 30 years ago, a purely functional programming language that provides very clear concepts. It has a good reputation for being difficult to learn. At the same time, it is considered particularly secure, as the strict guidelines prevent some programming errors.

(igr)