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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Next to these two entities, Annex II contains the ones listed below: postal and courier services; waste management; manufacturers and distributors of certain chemicals; food producers and distributors; manufacturers of certain critical products, such as some medical devices, transport equipment, motor vehicles, trailers, electrical equipment, etc.;

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Panasonic to Offer EPEAT® Registered Document Scanners for Businesses

Info Source

government, EPEAT is the definitive global rating system for greener electronics and currently tracks more than 4,400 products from more than 60 manufacturers across 43 countries to help organizations streamline their purchases of sustainable electronics. Used by the U.S.

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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is an improvement of WEP introduced in 2003. Update your router firmware from your router’s manufacturer and install them to ensure your router is up to date and secure. However, this protocol — introduced in 1997 — is outdated and considered insecure because it is easily hackable.

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Google's Next Mountain to Climb: Customer Support

John Battelle's Searchblog

Google has never had a great reputation for customer support - back in the "hair on fire" days of 2003-2006 the lack of a human response to search engine marketers' questions was a huge complaint. Now the company is going direct to consumers with a major phone launch.

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3 Useful Document Scanner Buying Tips, Plus Scanner or Copier?

Info Source

These days manufacturers have several network scanner options. So as I was putting these questions together, I remembered that Visioneer has a Xerox license to manufacture your scanners. Yeah, being a brand licensing partner of Xerox, we’ve faced this question since 2003 when we signed that agreement with Xerox.

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Mekel 2.0 Adds Features for Maximum Production Efficiencies

Info Source

In 1987, Mekel Technology was the first company in the world to design, manufacture and market a production-level microfilm scanner. Mekel Technology was purchased by The Crowley Company in 2003. The firm’s microfiche scanners followed in 1991 as the market’s first commercial units.

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Episode 157: Do we need an FDA for Software? Also: operationalizing Threat Intelligence

The Security Ledger

In all, more than 6,000 firmware versions were analyzed, totaling close to 3 million binaries created from 2003 to 2018. Time and again, firmware from commonly used manufacturers failed to implement basic security features even when researchers studied the most recent versions of the firmware.

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