John Ribeiro reports: A subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives has proposed requiring vehicle manufacturers to state their privacy policies, besides providing for civil penalties of up to US$100,000 for the hacking of vehicles. The lawmakers have also proposed that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set up an Automotive Cybersecurity Advisory Council to…
Month: October 2015
Lawful Hacking After the Encryption Debate
Marshall Erwin writes: The Obama administration has apparently decided not to support exceptional access proposals that would provide law enforcement with the means to access data on iPhones and other personal devices. As I argued previously on Just Security, instead of pursuing exceptional access, policymakers should seek to build a durable legal structure that would provide the FBI with the…
Female hacker dropped plans to hack White House because “Anarchist Cookbook” was ‘too boring’
Vijay Prbhu reports: A 16 year old female hacker and ISIS sympathiser dropped plans to hack into the White House because the extremist guide on how to do it was “too boring.” The teenager whose name has been kept anonymous as per UK law, is undergoing trial in Manchester Youth Court in United Kingdom. The girl,…
Shared passwords and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Orin Kerr writes: Next week, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Thomas, Reinhardt, and McKeown) will hear oral argument in the second round of United States v. Nosal. This time around, the main question in the case is whether and when accessing an account using a shared password is an unauthorized access under the Computer…
Facebook, Google, Amazon and other big tech companies just slammed a proposed US cybersecurity law
Rob Price reports: The tech industry is not a fan of the proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) currently being deliberated by the US Congress. The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), which represents Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and more big tech companies, has published a blog post slamming CISA, arguing it “does not sufficiently protect…
Islamist Hacker Defaces Brooklyn Sex Zine
Sam Biddle writes: In news that will shock and upset literally tens of people between Greenpoint and Crown Heights, a prolific Islamist hacker entity by the name Abdellah Elmaghribi has defaced Adult Magazine, an online blog about graduate students having sex. Abdellah Elmaghribi is a prolific website vandal, having taken down everything from UK soccer squads to a…