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China announced an initiative to establish global standards on data security, saying it wanted to promote multilateralism in the area at a time when "individual countries" were "bullying" others and "hunting" companies. The announcement, by State Councillor Wang Yi, comes a month after the United States said it was purging "untrusted" Chinese apps under a program dubbed "Clean Network". China's initiative calls for technology firms to prevent the creation of so-called backdoors in their products and services that could allow data to be obtained illegally, as well as for participants to respect the sovereignty, jurisdiction and data management rights of other countries. It also calls for participants to not engage in large-scale surveillance of other countries or illegally acquire information of foreign citizens through information technology. It did not detail the nature of the initiative or say whether any other country had joined. "Global data security rules that reflect … [Read more...] about China unveils global data security initiative, says some countries bullying others

DJI, the world's largest consumer drone maker, unveiled plans this week to assemble drones in California and make high-security drones for the US government. The plan follows the Chinese company in recent months being warned about security concerns by the US. … [Read more...] about DJI unveils plans to start assembling drones in US amid security concerns

The bulk of the patches are from Qualcomm and MediaTek to address the obscure yet important ways researchers have been able to exploit the hardware. While some of these changes are open source and available for public audit, most are closed and part of your phone's binary driver package which is included with the patch update that's on its way. … [Read more...] about The September 2020 security patch is here and rolling out to Pixel phones

"The way that people work and go online is vastly different today than it was a few years ago, and especially within the last several months," said Guido Appenzeller, Chief Product Officer, Yubico. "Users are no longer tied to just one device or service, nor do they want to be. That's why the YubiKey 5C NFC is one of our most sought-after security keys — it's compatible with a majority of modern-day computers and mobile phones and works well across a range of legacy and modern applications. At the end of the day, our customers crave security that 'just works' no matter what." … [Read more...] about YubiKey 5C NFC: The USB security key that everyone’s been waiting for

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