26 matches found
Prepare Your Organization for Compliance with the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation
Cyberattacks are on the rise, with bad actors accelerating their nefarious exfiltration of valuable and confidential data from financial institutions, Federal agencies, healthcare organizations, and more. According to an IBM study, the Financial Services industry saw an increase in the cost of da...
Thawing Out the Chilling Effect Of DMCA Section 1201
The Copyright Office has issued the latest rules on exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Great news: Legal protections for independent security research have once again been meaningfully strengthened. On the whole, these protections are now significantly greate...
Copyright Office Calls For New Cybersecurity Researcher Protections
On Jun. 22, the US Copyright Office released its long-awaited study on Sec. 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA, and it has important implications for independent cybersecurity researchers. Mostly the news is very positive. Rapid7 advocated extensively for researcher protections to ...
EFF Files Lawsuit Challenging DMCA's Restrictions Security Researchers
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Government over a provision within the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that it says impinges on free speech and hobbles security researchers ability to do their job. The lawsuit asks the court to strike down the highly...
Car Hacking, Mobile Jailbreaking Among DCMA Exemptions Granted
Car hackers and jailbreakers today apparently got a green light from the Librarian of Congress David Mao to tinker away. The Library of Congress’ triennial exemptions to the anti-circumvention rules within the Digital Copyright Millennium Act DCMA were released today, and among the exemptions to...
