Cory Bennett reports: Another lawmaker is taking a crack at a bill to set nationwide data security standards. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said in a Tuesday hearing that she was preparing a bill “that would require strong security standards for a wide array of personal data,” such as geolocation data, health records, biometric details, and…
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State Bank of Pakistan asks banks to submit details of Internet security breaches
The Daily Times reports: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has directed the banks to report in details about all established security breaches, its analysis and its designated payment systems department, on quarterly basis to explain the impact of security breaches on institution’s business, systems, applications and customers. The directives were issued in the SBP…
CISA amendment would allow US to jail foreigners for crimes committed abroad
Sam Thielman reports: An amendment to a controversial cybersecurity bill will allow US courts to pursue and jail foreign nationals even if the crimes they commit are against other foreigners and on foreign soil. The main aim of the amendment to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (Cisa), which passed a key Senate hurdle on Thursday,…
US proposal aims to regulate car privacy, make hacks illegal
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…
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…