Australia: Parliament passes anti-encryption bill
The Parliament of Australia has passed the Assistance and Access Bill 2018, which allows Australian authorities to pressure communication providers and tech companies into …
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New IoT legislation bans shared default passwords
In an attempt to make it harder for bots to take over the myriad of connected devices sold in California, the state legislators have pushed through and California Governor …
Analysis: Reported data breaches in Australia
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has published the first full quarter report on data breaches that fall under Notifiable Data Breaches scheme and, …
How to improve software vulnerability disclosure in Europe
As software gets embedded in more and more things we use every day, the problem of software vulnerability reporting and patching rises in importance. Unfortunately, only a few …
California Senate votes to restore net neutrality rules
The California State Senate voted yesterday in favor of a bill aimed at restoring the net neutrality protections put in place by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015, …
US Senate votes to save net neutrality
The US Senate has voted in favor of net neutrality by approving a Congressional Review Act resolution that would undo the Federal Communications Commission’s December …
UK High Court rules part of Snoopers’ Charter incompatible with EU law
The UK High Court has ruled that part of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (nicknamed Snoopers’ Charter) is incompatible with European Union law and the European …
How Google implements the Right To Be Forgotten
Who is asking Google to delist certain URLs appearing in search results related to their name, and what kind of requests does the search giant honor? The company has been …
UK critical operators risk £17m fines for poor cybersecurity practices
UK essential service operators risk fines of up to £17 million if they fail to implement robust protections against cyber attack. The penalties will apply to energy, …
European Commission wants ENISA to introduce EU-wide cybersecurity certification scheme
“Cyber security attacks know no borders and no one is immune,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker noted in his State of the Union Speech on …
Chinese government’s latest crack against online anonymity
The Chinese government is dead-set on making it so that all online interactions can be tied to a specific user. The latest move towards this goal came on Friday, when the …
US senators introduce bill to improve IoT security, protect researchers probing it
US Senators Mark Warner (D-VA), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Ron Wyden (D-WA) and Steve Daines (R-MT) introduced bipartisan legislation to improve the cybersecurity of …