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Security News for the Week Ending August 5, 2022

US Emergency Alert System Has a Minor Bug Homeland Security has issued an alert that there are critical vulnerability in the Emergency Alert System encoder and decoder devices. If left unpatched, it would allow a hacker to issue fake warnings of emergencies. The EAS is the nationwide alert system that is used to warn citizens […]

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The risks of Smart Devices

As I have reported before, retailers don’t really care whether the smart devices that you buy are secure. Home Depot is one of those vendors and when asked about dumb smart devices, they said: “We require all vendors to follow applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards”. Of course, there are virtually no laws, regulations or […]

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