Like other countries, UK politicians are wrestling with how to deal with encryption. After all, the U.S. has been dealing with it since they arrested Phil Zimmerman for creating PGP encryption and they haven’t resolved the issue either. The UK wants to, basically, ban end to end encryption in the name of “protecting the children”. […]
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Government Contractors Affected by TikTok Ban Too The White House issued a memo in February requiring the removal of TikTok from federal information systems as required by the consolidated appropriations Act of 2023. How this affects contractors is that it also includes IT “used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that […]
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Every now and then researchers or hackers discover a new class of bugs that spells trouble for a vendor. Apple is no exception. For a long time, when no one really cared about Apple, it looked like they were bulletproof. Not any more. This new bug, if exploited, could let a hacker to steal your […]
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How Many Times Do I Need to Say – Crypto is Software, Software Has Bugs, Your Money is at Risk Decentralized Finance platform (DeFi) Revest Finance said that it lost $2 million due to a software bug and, oh yeah, (a) the can’t recover the funds, (b) they do not have the money to cover […]
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iOS devices running 14.7 through 15.2 – basically all devices – are subject to a denial of service attack that forces the user to do a factory reset, wiping all of the user’s data. If the user logs in to iCloud to restore the data, the denial of service attack will replay once the data […]
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Apple Offers Fixes For Broken iPhone 12s While not exactly a security issue, Apple is offering to fix defective iPhone 12s that were made between October 2020 and April 2021 and which have a defective receiver module component. That is mighty kind of them since every single one of them is still under warranty and […]
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