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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Is This Becoming a Thing-Another MSP Ransomed

December 30, 2019 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago it was a Managed Service Provider in Denver. A few weeks before that, it was one in Wisconsin. This week it is Irvine, CA based Synoptek with more than 1,100 customers including state and local governments, financial services and healthcare. Their web site says that they did more than $100 […]

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