Collaborate Disseminate
MPs aren’t just getting excited about an upcoming election, but also the fruity WhatsApp messages they’re receiving, can we trust AI with our health, and who on earth is pretending to be a producer for the Drew Barrymore TV show?
All this and much m… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #367: WhatsApp at Westminster, unhealthy AI, and Drew Barrymore
Two men have been charged with hacking into computer networks in the United States, UK, other NATO countries, and Ukraine, on behalf of the Russian government.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading UK and US expose Russian hacking plot intended to influence UK’s 2019 elections and spread disinformation
Happily the right to repair movement is slowly gaining ground, and recently they’ve scored a major success in the European Parliament that includes a requirement that products be labelled with expected lifetime and repairability information, long-term availability of parts, and numerous measures aimed at preventing waste.
… including by requiring
Continue reading European Right To Repair: Poor Repairability Shamed With Rating System
It’s already gotten hit with the biggest-ever US child privacy fine, and now it might be facing a fine for GDPR violations. Continue reading TikTok investigated (again) over how it handles children’s data and safety
“There is an emergency. It is not Brexit. It is the climate and ecological emergency.” Continue reading Climate Change Activists Stripped Semi-Naked In British Parliament
Many websites threatened by highly critical code-execution bug in Drupal, UK parliament calls for antitrust, data abuse probe of Facebook, CommitStrip: Get rich quick, Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was ‘ne… Continue reading Bugs, Breaches, and More! – Application Security Weekly #52
Australia’s security agencies have launched an investigation into a digital attack attempt against the country’s Federal Parliament. Sources told the Australian Broadcasting Company that security personnel caught digital attackers in the ea… Continue reading Australia Investigating Digital Attack Attempt against Federal Parliament
Canada is poised to become a global hub for cryptocurrencies, and advocates worry excessive regulation will stifle innovation. Continue reading Canada Is Gearing Up to Regulate Cryptocurrency
‘Staff use my login every day!’, ‘I have to ask staff members my own password when I forget it!”, and other stories…
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Continue reading Politicians boast about sharing passwords, bask in blissful ignorance
We’ve brought you a variety of stories over the years covering the interface between multirotor fliers and the law, and looked at the credibility gap between some official incident reports and the capabilities of real drones. In the news this week is a proposed new law in front of the British House of Commons that would bring in a licensing scheme for machines weighing over 250 g, as well as new powers to seize drones. We’ve previously told you about the consultation that led up to it, and its original announcement. As a British voter with some interest in the …read more
