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Security News for the Week Ending May 8, 2020

May 8, 2020 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

The Contact Tracing Horror Begins The UK is now saying that all of the contact data that they are collecting from the app people install on their smart phones – that data may be kept by the government forever and no, you can’t ask them to delete it. Credit: The Register Singapore will require smartphone […]

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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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