UK bill proposes stiff fines for companies that violate Huawei ban

The U.K. government is proposing big penalties for companies that fail to comply with telecommunications security requirements aimed at keeping technology from Huawei out of the country’s new high-speed networks. Legislation proposed Tuesday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government would levy fines of as much as 100,000 pounds ($134,000) per day if companies don’t meet deadlines for new security requirements. The bill essentially would codify a decision by Johnson this summer to ban Huawei from the U.K.’s 5G and fiber optics networks because of security concerns. The U.S. had pressured Britain to block Huawei over its alleged ties to the Chinese state. The Trump administration has continued to expand restrictions on the company as the U.S. and China continue to battle over trade rules, internet policy and other tech issues. Huawei has denied it spies on customers at the behest of the Chinese government. The legislation clarifies what is expected […]

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New worming botnet Gitpaste-12 infecting IoT devices, Linux servers

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Gitpaste-12 uses GitHub and Pastebin for framing the component code and has 12 different attack modules.
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Cyber Security Roundup for November 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, October 2020.
London’s Hackney Borough Council has been tight-lipped about “a serious cyber-attack” which… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for November 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for November 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, October 2020.
London’s Hackney Borough Council has been tight-lipped about “a serious cyber-attack” which… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for November 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for October 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, October 2020.
COVID-19 wasn’t the only virus seriously disrupting the start of the new UK academic year, … Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for October 2020

China Trolls U.S. With ‘Fox in Henhouse’ Data Security Plan

China says countries shouldn’t attack critical infrastructure. Nor steal data. Nor do mass surveillance. Nor put backdoors in their products.
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Beijing floats a plan to protect Chinese companies from American cyber ‘bullying’

If Chinese technology companies are going to lose global market share amid concerns about their ties to the Communist government, Beijing isn’t going to let that happen quietly. In a speech Tuesday, Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi proposed a set of international rules intended to increase trust and refute the Trump administration’s strategy to limit the reach of Chinese-made technologies. Wang said the “Global Initiative on Data Security” is a recognition that data protection techniques are increasingly politicized at a moment when “individual countries” are “bullying” others, sometimes “hunting” foreign-based companies. The speech coincided with an ongoing effort in Washington to limit what officials have described as a national security threat from China-based corporations including TikTok and Huawei. While the U.S. has provided few specific examples of the apparent threat, intelligence officials have consistently warned that Chinese national security laws require Chinese companies to provide data at the government’s request. Chinese […]

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