If you predicted that 2017 would be the year that manufacturers of insecure IoT devices would be facing legal action, and that penalties would be issued for slow reporting of breaches, then you can rub your hands gleefully and tout yourself as the cyber Nostradamus!
If not, you can catch up on the latest goings-on which includes these stories as well as California’s new ransomware law, and how two friends got into restricted areas with just a hi-vis jacket.
Links to this weeks stories:
The FTC offering $25,000 prize for securing IoT
The FTC suing D-Link for insecure IoT
New California law to imprison ransomware distributors for four years
Healthcare provider fined $475,000 for tardy breach notification
Getting into restricted areas with nothing more than a hi-vis jacket