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Western Digital Hacked: ‘My Cloud’ Data Dead (Even Local Storage!)

| | cloud storage , My Cloud , Ransomware , SB Blogwatch , storage , WD , Western Digital , Western Digital My Cloud
Déjà Vu: Hack of WD systems leads to My Cloud service outage. Owners unable to access files ...
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Brits Slap Wrists of DDoS Kids, via NCA’s Fake Booter Sites

| | booter , booter services , booters and stressers , crime , ddos , National Crime Agency , National Cyber Crime Unit , NCA , Operation Power Off , Operation PowerOFF , SB Blogwatch , U.K. National Crime Agency , uk
UK National Crime Agency nips it in the bud: Aims to scare straight naughty DDoS kiddies ...
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Amazing Fast Crypto for IoT — US NIST Fingers ASCON

| | AEAD , aes , ASCON , CAESAR , cryptography , hash , hash algorithms , hash function , hash functions , Internet of things , Internet of Things (IoT) , Internet of Things (IoT) Security , Internet of Things cyber security , iot , NIST , SB Blogwatch
Implementing modern cryptography standards on tiny IoT devices is hard. They’re underpowered, need to sip battery charge and something like AES is often overkill ...
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Anker’s Eufy Admits ‘Lie’ After TWO Months — Still no Apology

| | Anker , E2EE , end-to-end encryption , Eufy , GDPR , Internet of things , iot , Privacy , SB Blogwatch , Security Cameras , The ‘S’ in IoT stands for Security
Anker said its Eufy cameras never send unencrypted video. But a couple of months ago, researchers discovered they did. Despite the clear evidence, Anker denied, delayed and deflected ...
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‘Finish Him!’ US Kills Huawei With Final Tech Ban

| | Biden administration , CCP , china , chinese government , exports , Huawei , SB Blogwatch
U.S. cuts off Huawei’s last sources of technology. Export licenses for chips and other tech components are finished ...
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