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Pending U.S. legislation could force manufacturers to make repair parts and information available at fair prices

Source: Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics

Source: Reaper: Calm Before the IoT Security Storm? — Krebs on Security

FBI Director Christopher Wray says federal agents haven’t been able to retrieve data from more than half of the mobile devices they’ve tried to access in a year.

Source: FBI couldn’t access nearly 7K devices because of encryption | Fox Business

With the release of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update last week, the “Controlled Folder Access” that Microsoft touted in June is now live for millions of users.

Source: Windows 10’s “Controlled Folder Access” Anti-Ransomware Feature Is Now Live

Since mid-September, a new IoT botnet has grown to massive proportions. Codenamed IoT_reaper (Reaper for this article), researchers estimate its current size at nearly two million infected devices.

Source: A Gigantic IoT Botnet Has Grown in the Shadows in the Past Month