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‘Union Jack’ bunting in Balham after the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, June 2022

Brits Ban Bad Passwords — and Other IoT Stupid Stuff

Richi Jennings | April 30, 2024 | bad passwords, blank password, Consumer IoT, gchq, gov.uk, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, iot, National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure act (PSTI), SB Blogwatch, The ‘S’ in IoT stands for Security, uk, United Kingdom

Nice Cup of IoTea? The UK’s Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act aims to improve the security of net-connected consumer gear ...

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Apple Fixes MacOS High Sierra Root Access Vulnerability

Lucian Constantin | November 29, 2017 | Amazon S3, Apple, authentication bypass, blank password, cloud leak, credential validation failure, Data leak, INSCOM, macOS High Sierra, misconfiguration, nsa, Red Disk, root access, root password, storage bucket, third-party vendor, virtual appliance, vulnerability

Apple has released an emergency fix for an embarrassing vulnerability that allowed people to access the highest privileges account on Mac computers without a password. The vulnerability was disclosed by a user ...