Security News for the Week Ending January 31, 2020

February 1, 2020 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

UK Proposes Weak Security Law for IoT Devices; Calls it Strong The UK is proposing a law similiar to California’s existing IoT law and calls it strong security. What makes it strong is that they call it strong, maybe? The bill requires that default passwords on IoT devices be unique (likely part of the serial […]

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Former Director Of The NSA Says NO! To Encryption Back Doors

October 7, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

Former NSA director Michael Hayden says that he would not support [FBI] Director [James] Comey’s demands for access, according to a story by Motherboard. This goes against the “wishes” of the current FBi director and head of the NSA. It is clear to me that if everything is transmitted unencrypted, with weak encryption or with […]

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