Cyber Security Legislation

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: Get Informed and Get Involved on Cyber Legislation. Every October, the National Cyber Security Alliance sponsors National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and a growing number of businesses and institutions are joining the chorus. The White House got in o...

California Joins Ban on Employers Demanding Social Media Access

California today joined two other states making it a crime for employers and colleges to ask applicants or workers for their social media login information in order to access their private Web sites. The new laws — one for companies and one for colleges — go into effect Jan. 1, 2013. Gov. Jerry...

Published Threat Intelligence, Not Cybersecurity Laws, Is What's Needed

For several years now, Congress has been wandering around the wilderness, trying to figure out why so much of America’s intellectual property is being sucked into a giant vortex somewhere over Asia and whether they should do something to stop it, like maybe pass a cybersecurity law. They’ve taken...

Illinois Outlaws Employer Requests for Facebook Passwords

Illinois today became the second state in the nation to ban employers from asking employees and job applicants for login information to access their social networking accounts. The law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, also bans such requests during background checks. “Members of the workforce shou...

Data Breach Reports Remain Spotty, Study Finds

In a twist on Tolstoy’s famous observation that “all happy families are alike,” the Identity Theft Resource Center ITRC is warning that the public is being told that ‘all data breaches are alike,’ as corporations paint a worryingly bland portrait of breaches and other data loss incidents affectin...

NSA Chief Says Today's Cyber Attacks Amount to 'Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History'

The general in charge of the National Security Agency on Monday said the lack of national cybersecurity leglislation is costing us big and amounting to what he believes is “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” U.S. Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander urged politicians to stop stalling on approvi...

An Unhappy Birthday For Uncle Sam On Cyber Security

Here’s the good news on America’s birthday: the last year has seen the U.S. emerge as an undisputed global leader in the use of offensive cyber operations. Averting another “Sputnik” moment, the nation’s longest running and most successful democracy blazed new trails in non-kinetic warfare,...

Senator Seeks to Strengthen SEC-Required Cybercrime Reporting

U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller wants to strengthen SEC legislation that requires publicly traded companies disclose significant digital security breaches, mainly because most aren’t. The chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week added a provision to cybersecurity...

Senate Committee to Discuss Do Not Track at Key Hearing

The dram surrounding the Do Not Track specification and its implementation by browser manufacturers is set to continue on Thursday when the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to discuss whether the proposed specification is strong enough or has been weakened by the digital advertising...

Syneto EMail Protection 1.5.1 - Code Execution Vulnerability

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Pressure Mounts For Cybersecurity Bill As Negotiations Stall

A joint letter from some of Washington D.C.’s leading minds in the areas of defense and diplomacy is urging Congress to pass a cyber security bill in some form this year, saying that the U.S. is urgently in need of a new policy and ill-prepared for cyber attacks. The letter, dated June 6, was...

White House Security Czar Howard Schmidt Retiring

Howard Schmidt, the top White House information security adviser, is retiring after more than two years on the job and several decades in security both in government and private industry. Schmidt is in his second stint as the White House security chief and he’s leaving at a time when cybersecurit...

U.S. Cyber Command Using Classified Intel To Scare CEOs To Action

The U.S.’s Cyber Command is using special, classified briefings with private sector CEOs to scare them into greater vigilance about the threat of cyber attacks, according to an NPR report. The report, quoting unnamed participants in the classified, 2010 briefings said that government officials...

CERT Warns Of Cyber Threats To Gas Pipelines

The Department of Homeland Security said it is investigating a string of cyber intrusions targeting companies that operate national gas pipelines in the U.S. The DHS’s Industrial Control System Computer Emergency Readiness Team ICS-CERT disclosed in its April, 2012 newsletter that it is...

Proposed Law Could Make It Illegal To Demand Access To Social Media Accounts

A new bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives would make it illegal for employers and other institutions to require Social Media passwords from their employees. The bill, the Social Networking Online Protection Act SNOPA, would protect current and prospective employees as well as...

Obama Administration Opposes CISPA As Congress Amends Proposed Law

The Obama Administration joined the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act CISPA debate yesterday when a senior State Department advisor told The Guardian that the White House opposed the controversial bill. CISPA emerged in the wake of the equally controversial Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA...

Security Experts, Internet Engineers Urge Lawmakers to Drop CISPA

A long list of security, networking and computer science experts have signed a letter sent to lawmakers on Monday, asking them to drop support for CISPA and other proposed cybersecurity bills because they consider the measures overly broad and say they would infringe on users’ privacy and civil...

Anonymous Knocks CISPA Supporters Offline

The Anonymous Internet collective is claiming responsibility for DDoS attacks that reportedly knocked offline the websites of prominent defense contractor, Boeing, and two trade associations, TechAmerica and USTelecom. The website of TechAmerica remained down Wednesday afternoon. In a phone...

FTC Privacy Framework Pushes for Do Not Track, Closer Inspection of Data Brokers

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new report on consumer privacy and online tracking and among the recommendations the commission makes is that data brokers make themselves known to consumers and be open and transparent about the data they collect on consumers. The FTC also says that...

EFF Says Cyber Security Bills Open Door To Government, Corporate Abuse

The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF is sounding alarms about a collection of overly vague cyber-security bills making their way through Congress. EFF looked at two bills making their way through Congress: The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 S. 2105, sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman I-CT of...