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A bipartisan duo of Congressmen and women (Congresspersons?) has a new student data security bill.
Reps. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) and Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) rolled out the Student Privacy Protection Act this week. It will:
A reporter for Wired details what parts of a car hackers can control while you’re driving.
Hackers are able to control a vehicle’s:
All of the car functions above can be controlled from a laptop by a nefarious hacker. Wired. Congress is trying to stop it with the Spy Car Act.
“In the 2015 first half, venture firms invested $1.2 billion in cybersecurity startups, according to researcher CB Insights.”
Data breaches are taking this nerdy issue, cyber and data security, and turning it into big business, well funded, with a lot of government regulation, oversight, and contracting opportunities.
For the first time ever, Zurich Surety registers as a lobbyist in Canada amid interest in data security legislation.
Folks, data security insurance is a business that is growing exponentially. The well read will remember that just last week, Information Intelligence brought you news of the first lawsuit concerning insurance coverage in a data breach.
Rapidly growing industry. Not Yet in Texas. Hello opportunities.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) say the Energy and Water Development funding bill shortchanges our electric grid from being properly protected from a cyber attack.
They call for funding the following data security protections:
Connecticut and Oregon both strengthened laws protecting health care data this year. Specifically the states , strengthened protections of personally identifiable information (“PII”).
47 Attorneys General signed a letter supporting state authority over data breach enforcement and strongly opposing any attempts at federal preemption.
Gen. Paxton is notably absent from the list: Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and Nebraska, was also joined by the following states and territories, according to the news release: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,…
NAPA has new data breach compliance and certification. Data breaches are big business, people.
Data breaches and protecting against data breaches generate:
Data breaches impact:
Federal employees this week filed suit over the June 4th federal data breach. The breach is said to the largest in government history, and allegedly the result of Chinese hackers seeking super secret spy information.
The crux of the lawsuit is something all corporations should pay heed to as its the same argument made by plaintiffs in Target and HomeDepot breaches too- how much knowledge did the government have about potential breaches and did the government fail to act? As for the feds,…
The Federal Trade Commission has released new guidelines for corporate data security. FTC has the power to fine companies for data breaches, so take heed.
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