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U.S. Congress should pass cyber-crime legislation this year -- when will the House of Representatives finally act?

2008-04-23 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...legislation that would help empower law enforcement to more effectively investigate and prosecute cyber criminals -- while updating penalties in U.S. criminal code so that the punishment fits the crime. It's stunning to me that the Congress has not yet sent legislation to the President for his signature to address this important issue
 
Tags: legislation, congress, empower law enforcement, pass legislation, prosecute cyber criminals, crime, criminal code, punishment fits, blog post
 
 
 
 
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Data security and breach legislation -- will a new year and a new Congress = a national law?

2007-03-07 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...legislation or announced this issue as a top priority of their respective Committees. So, if there's all this momentum behind the possible passage of a national law, why just a "maybe"? The simple answer could be that one of the biggest barriers to passage of Federal data security and breach notification law is related to jurisdictional...
 
Tags: congress, national law, federal data security, simple answer, breach notification laws, answer, breach notification law, top priority, federal law
 
 
 
 
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Security World: BSA urges congress to pass cyber crime legislation

2007-12-19 23:38:10 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) today urged Congress to swiftly enact cyber crime legislation that would update criminal laws to provide law enforcement with much-needed tools to find and prosec
 
Tags: business software alliance, provide law enforcement, criminal laws, bsa, urged congress, tools, prosec
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #81: iSkoot vulnerability, OFCOM legislation, VoIP security news and more

2008-08-26 21:16:43 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...legislation, VoIP security news and more Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #81, a 42-minute podcast from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions Download the show here (MP3, 19MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically NOTE: This show was originally recorded on May 21,...
 
Tags: voip, voip security news, voip users based, enterprise voip planet, voip calls, voip privacy, security, voip news, voip security podcast
 
 
 
 
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Waiting for "EuroSOX"

2008-04-03 11:41:37 by Posted By: Carsten Casper, Research Director in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...legislation take on the "SOX" suffix. Japan's Financial Instruments and Exchange Law has come to be widely known as J-SOX, and now we're hearing all kinds of talk about something called "EuroSOX" and that's a mistake We Europeans don't like to be seen as copying the U.S. - surprise, surprise! - especially when we aren't. There are at least...
 
Tags: sox, eurosox, j-sox, internal controls, europe, key, proper risk management, key controls, noncompliant enterprises
 
 
 
 
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Personal Internet Security: follow-up report

2008-07-08 13:05:04 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...legislation would have the twin impacts of increasing incentives on businesses to avoid data loss, and should a breach occur, giving individuals timely information so that they can reduce the risk to themselves . The headlines have been about the data lost by the Government , but recent figures from the ICO show that private industry is doing...
 
Tags: report, committees report, initial report, short report, internet, committees follow-up report, personal internet security, technology committee, banks
 
 
 
 
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Bill allows victims of identity theft to obtain restitution

2008-09-17 23:28:07 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...legislation makes it a felony to damage 10 or more protected computers used by or for the federal government or a financial institution The legislation also expands the federal definition of cyber extortion to include a demand for money in relation to damage to a protected computer, where such damage was caused to facilitate the extortion...
 
Tags: computer, computer fraud offenses, identity theft, theft, fraud offenses, obtain restitution, commit computer, imposes criminal, extortion
 
 
 
 
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REAL ID continues to have 'real' challenges

2007-06-18 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...legislation all were ostensibly aiming for the same thing: preventing the use of a fraudulent driver's license by terrorists through the development of safeguards that would help prevent tampering and use of such a document for false identification -- and that would also enable more effective and trustworthy authentication of individuals for...
 
Tags: real, fraudulent driver, additional food, subsequent legislation, identity card, false identification, trustworthy authentication, recommendation, law
 
 
 
 
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Can Congress Help Stop Identity Theft?

2007-03-28 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...legislation that includes very specific requirements aimed at current threats in cyberspace (primarily Botnets); that Congress should make ISPs "knock bot PCs off their networks"; and that others should take certain steps. He also argues that Congress should "...Make end users liable if losses are incurred as a result of outdated security...
 
Tags: congress, winkler, ira winkler, knock bot pcs, specific requirements aimed, pass legislation, security software, primarily botnets, current threats
 
 
 
 
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Keeping up with global regulations

2007-12-28 14:03:48 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management