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Are you an Amazon Ring user? An Amazon software engineer named Max Eliaser is calling for the shutdown of Ring, the doorbell camera company Amazon paid $2 billion for in 2018, due to serious privacy concerns. What are your thoughts? . Hundreds of Amazon employees recently banded together to form Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an organization dedicated to holding the company’s feet to the fire when it comes to taking the steps necessary to face the global climate crisis. The group published a post on Medium yesterday sharing its members’ views on climate change, but Eliaser apparently felt the need to speak out on a different subject. They wrote: The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society. The privacy issues are not fixable with regulation and there is no balance that can be struck. Ring should be shut down immediately and not brought back. The link for this article located at The Next Web is no longer available. . Amazon employees are urging for immediate shutdown of Ring cameras over privacy concerns raised by an engineer.. Amazon Ring, home security, privacy concerns, employee advocacy, connected devices. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
California looks set to regulate IoT devices, becoming the first US state to do so and beating the Federal Government to the post.. The State legislature approved ‘SB-327 Information privacy: connected devices’ last Thursday and handed it over to the Governor to sign. The legislation introduces security requirements for connected devices sold in the US. It defines them as any device that connects directly or indirectly to the internet and has an IP or Bluetooth address. That covers an awful lot of devices. The link for this article located at Naked Security/Sophos is no longer available. . The State legislature approved ‘SB-327 Information privacy: connected devices’ last Thursday and. california, looks, regulate, devices, becoming, first, state, beating. . Brittany Day
I. In many instances, my discussions with customers turn to the need for cybersecurity. Security models will need to radically change in order to provide the right level of protection for this new, connected world. One crucial aspect that I often encourage practitioners to think differently about is network segmentation. The link for this article located at Security Ledger is no longer available. . In many instances, my discussions with customers turn to the need for cybersecurity. Security models. instances, discussions, customers, cybersecurity, security. . Alex
This part of the article gives an overview of ways to use your DSL machine as gateway for your home or office network, and goes through the basic steps to setup and maintain security to machines connected directly to the Internet. . . . . This part of the article gives an overview of ways to use your DSL machine as gateway for your home or office network, and goes through the basic steps to setup and maintain security to machines connected directly to the Internet. With NAT (or "IP masquerading", as it's called in another universe), multiple machine can be hidden behind one gateway machine. The machines behind the gateway can use their own, private network numbers (usually form the 10/24 or 192.168/16 subnets), and the gateway will translate the private, internal addresses to the public, external address of the gateway machine (hence NAT => Network Address Translation, see Image #3). Any replies made to requests sent out will be translated before sent back to the client. One of the characteristics of this scheme is that a client machine needs to establish a connection, and no outside machine can connect beyond the NAT gateway. From the security point of view this is absolutely desirable. From a practical view, it might be needed to forward single ports to inside machines, e.g. to let them handle WWW or FTP requests. The link for this article located at BSDToday is no longer available. . Learn how to set up your DSL modem/router as a secure gateway for home or office networks and enhance your online safety effectively. DSL Gateway Configuration, NAT Implementation, Network Security Tips. . Anthony Pell
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