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Is Cyber Security the Philanthropic Trend du jour?

Recent cyber security philanthropic gifts:

creating a cybersecurity research center aimed at African American students in underserved communities
$30 million in gifts to fund the construction of the Madison Cyber Labs as well as scholarships for students and support for additional faculty and staff at Dakota State University
Harvard, which received a $15 million gift from Robert and Renee Belfer to establish the Cyber Security Project
Amherst, which netted a $15 commitment from MassMutual…

2 minutes to hack a US voting machine.

A tech researcher visiting DefCon Voting Village in Las Vegas, hacked a U.S. styled voting machine within 2 minutes.

Wired | TO FIX VOTING MACHINES, HACKERS TEAR THEM APART

Activist TREND. Tracking Government Cybersecurity spending.

Taxpayers for Common Sense is ahead of the curve by creating a database to track federal cybersecurity spending.

The cybersecurity spending database is organized by agency and tracks spending for last 10 years.

Intelligent Transportation Cybersecurity Task Force. 3 Bits of informed:intel

The brainchildren behind Intelligent Transportation Cybersecurity Task Force: Intelligent Transportation Society of America & nonprofit Cyber Future Foundation

Which stakeholders are involved? auto manufacturers, government leaders and transportation officials

What will the task forces study? cybersecurity issues- legal and liability issues and policy, regulation and legislation- to esnusre the highest elevel of safety and privacy in a connected transportation environment

Politico | Morning…

Lege Trend. Hack Back Bills. 4 Ways one Hack Back Bills is Changing.

Amendments to Congressman Tom Graves’ Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act include:

mandatory reporting requirement for entities that use active-defense technique
the reporting to federal law enforcement will ensure such tools are used responsibly
2 year sunset clause
exemption allowing people or companies to recover their lost data if it’s found using defensive techniques and can be grabbed back without destroying other data.

Politico Morning Cyber Security | Scoop: ‘Hack back’ bill gets…

Advocacy Trend. Education Data Privacy Toolkits. Activate against Schools and Ed Tech Companies

The advocates: Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

The toolkit for parents to empower them on student data privacy: toolkit

What’s the target: data privacy policies of school districts and ed tech companies

Education Week | New Student Data Privacy Toolkit Encourages Parent Advocacy