Lack of awareness of cybersecurity in rail operations With 472 billions of passenger and 87 billion ton-kilometers in terms of freight transport per year, the rail sector plays a large and rapidly growing role in transport in Europe. However, digitization poses major IT security challenges for the area, the European cybersecurity agency Enisa has found. In a report that has now been published, the agency attests that the train transport sector has “an overall lack of awareness of cybersecurity”. In addition, there would be problems due to the complex operating technology used. Even the simplest security measures on operational systems can often not be fully implemented. A change in awareness is therefore necessary in order to build up more specialist knowledge about IT security.

Great Britain wants to prefer a ban on fossil fuel-powered cars Ten years earlier than previously planned, cars with combustion engines are no longer to be sold in Great Britain: Already from 2030 on, the sale of new vehicles with diesel and gasoline engines is to be prohibited. The sale of hybrid cars is to remain allowed until 2035. At the same time, 1.3 billion pounds will be paid out for the charging infrastructure and just under 472 million pounds in purchase premiums for less environmentally harmful electric cars will. These measures are essential parts of a ten-point plan with which the UK wants to become climate neutral within the next three decades.

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Chrome for ARM-Macs crashes Google has this week with Chrome 87 published the first version of its browser natively adapted for Apple’s M1 chips. This should make the work a little faster. As it now turns out, however, the search engine giant has not tested adequately: The M1 Chrome browser is currently so unstable that continuous operation is difficult. However, the Chrome team has identified a bug fix and will make it available “soon”.

“Star Wars” -DLC for Minecraft released A new downloadable content for the creative game “Minecraft” leads into the “Star Wars” universe: The official expansion package includes a map with twelve different planets as well as suitable ones Textures, objects, skins and a licensed “Star Wars” soundtrack. According to the announcement, the package mainly contains content from the original trilogy. But the successful series “The Mandalorian” is also on board. For example, one trailer shows Baby Yoda.

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