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evolutionary writes:
A "hard fought" law requiring the ability of remote permanent kill switches in cell phones in the state of California claims to reduce "violence" caused by cell phone thefts because they are no longer worth the trouble.
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evolutionary writes:
Concerns have been raised over a British judge's use of his personal email address to send out a ruling in a family court case, which contained sensitive personal information. The article doesn't specify the tone suggests emails sent were unencrypted.
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evolutionary writes:
CNN appears to be giving veiled threats at a Reddit user who posted critical comments about the media giant. After an apology was given by the Reddit user (possibly under fear upon discovering CNN had his identity) CNN stated "CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change."
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evolutionary writes:
According to F-Secure's Chief Research Officer "IoT is unavoidable. "If it uses electricity, it will become a computer. If it uses electricity, it will be online. In future, you will only buy IoT appliances, whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not." F-Secure's new product to help mitigate data leakage, "Sense", is a IoT Firewall, combining a traditional firewall with a cloud service and uses concepts including behaviour-based blocking and device reputation to figure out whether you have insecure devices.
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evolutionary writes:
Payroll Contracting services refuse to pay contractors due to dispute with companies using their services. Around 1000 IT workers unable to receive payment for services rendered. One may ask, "Where are the companies who actually hired the IT workers?".
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evolutionary writes:
Apparently the Australian funnel-web spider's venom has amazing properties, IF you can use it within 4.5 hours. https://arstechnica.com/scienc...
