The passing of the Online Safety Bill is going to be delayed (along with other legislation) until the Conservatives choose a new Prime Minister for the country. Online Safety Bill put on hold until new prime minister in place – BBC News
The Online Safety Bill is still going through parliament and we are back to the question of end-to-end encryption
I quite like the UK government’s Online Safety Bill. It compels the Big Tech companies to take action over child sex abuse material (CSAM) and promises huge fines if they fail to do so. However, the requirement to monitor communication apps with end-to-end encryption (E2EE), for CSAM causes me a …
Ransomware via IoT
I have written before about the security limitations of “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. Many of them are simple devices, possibly based on older tech, they tend to lack the hardware to allow for regular security updates, etc, etc etc. At least the UK Government is enacting laws to make …
Good faith hackers – they do exist
Cyber security investigations often mean carrying out tasks that by the letter of the (US or UK) are illegal – it is the nature of the job. In the United Kingdom we have two critical pieces of legislation that a cyber security consultant could fall foul of: Computer Misuse Act …
Just how much and often is your data shared? UPDATED 19 May 2022
This post was originally published on 17 May 2022 Update 19 May 2022 The numbers just keep getting bigger! This article in The Register, has the Irish Council on Civil Liberties, stating that our data is shared up to 987 times a day, when the Real Time Bidding (RTB) industry …
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