Back in 2003, an engineer called Bill Burr wrote the official guidance on password security for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), since widely referenced …
The Australian government is pushing ahead with the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016 after accepting all recommendations made by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and …
It follows, then, that US companies that operate in compliance with the UK Data Protection Bill will (or should) be automatically in compliance with GDPR. The reverse is …
The government has announced the details of the planned UK Data Protection Bill as part of its commitment to update and strengthen data protection laws and bring UK …
The UK government will soon put forward a new data protection bill which is hoped to refresh the 1998 Data Protection Act in line with the EU’s planned …
The government is planning to impose criminal sanctions on people who intentionally re-identify individuals from data that should have protected their identities. The plans will be set out …
The pressure is now on for UK organizations to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) after the government announced its intention to write the legislation …
Digital Minister, Matt Hancock, has formally announced the government’s intent to overhaul its data protection laws, in the form of a new Data Protection Bill, to keep the …
The UK’s new legislation on data protection is to get its first airing in Parliament next month, the government has said. The Data Protection Bill, announced in the …
By this time, almost every one of you owns at least one internet-connected device—better known as the “Internet of things”—at your home, but how secure is your device? …
UK’s Data Protection Bill, which was announced in last month’s Queen’s Speech, could be introduced in Parliament in just a few weeks. The UK legislation is expected in …
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is hopeful that new legislation could fill holes in the way Internet of Things (IoT) devices are secured – typically as an …
Vendors that provide the U.S. government with internet-connected devices – so-called internet of things – would need to assure they can be patched, don’t include hard-coded passwords that …
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate today introduced a bill that would set baseline security standards for the government’s purchase and use of a broad range of Internet-connected devices, …