Washington – Two key US lawmakers Wednesday unveiled legislation to require technology firms to help law enforcement unlock encrypted devices — prompting a fierce outcry from the industry and privacy activists.
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Privacy Shield Heavily Criticized by European Regulators
News via a German leak concerning European regulators' attitudes towards Privacy Shield was published last week with the headline, "EU-US Privacy Shield in big trouble, may not pass muster…" British lawyer David Flint commented, "Of course it won't pass muster; it's a political expedient and doesn't address any of the issues of the CJEU decision in Schrems." Both were right.
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Grey Hat Hackers Helped FBI Hack iPhone: Report
The FBI announced recently that it managed to hack the iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino shooter without Apple’s help and all signs pointed to Cellebrite being the mysterious outside party. However, people familiar with the matter said it was actually professional hackers who aided the agency in breaking into the Islamic terrorist's smartphone.
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British Telecom to Recruit 900 for Cybersecurity Business
British Telecom (BT) said on Wednesday that it plans to hire 900 people across the globe to work in its cyber security business over the next 12 months.
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Cyber Security Oversight: Why it Belongs in the Board Room
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Continue readingSAP Patches XSS, DoS Vulnerabilities
SAP on Tuesday released its latest patch update for its products, which includes 19 patch notes, 10 of which had a high priority rating.
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Siemens Industrial Products Affected by Critical glibc Flaw
Siemens has informed customers that several of the company’s industrial solutions are plagued by a severe vulnerability in glibc, a library used in many software and hardware products.
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Open CA Let’s Encrypt Comes Out of Beta
One month after announcing that it had issued over one million certificates since opening to the public in December last year, free and open Certificate Authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt has come out of beta.
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Is Multi-Cloud the Ultimate Use Case for the Zero Trust Model?
When Forrester's John Kindervag first wrote about the concept of the Zero Trust Model (ZTM) it almost seemed too paranoid. ZTM posits that attackers are so successful in penetrating networks that a network architect should consider each and every device—from the Internet, to the firewall, to the switch, to the server—to be potentially compromised.
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Adobe Patches Flaws in Creative Cloud, RoboHelp
Adobe released on Tuesday patches for its Creative Cloud, RoboHelp Server and AIR products.
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