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UK becomes first country to outlaw easily guessable default passwords on connected devices | Companies that ignore the law face a $12.5 million fine
An update to the UK's Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act (PSTI) states that every device with online connectivity must either ship with a randomized password or...
That's no longer going to be the case in the UK, which has become the first country in the world to ban makers from using easily guessable default credentials on connected devices. The updated rules are designed to mitigate against incidents like the Mirai botnet in 2016 that caused huge outages across the internet, including Twitter, Netflix, and Reddit. In July last year, the Biden administration announced the Cyber Trust Mark program, designed to help Americans identify which connected devices meet government cybersecurity requirements, including having strong default passwords.
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