Erin Kelly reports: Members of Congress are increasingly trying to rein in a secretive federal law enforcement program that uses devices known as Stingrays to capture cellphone data from unsuspecting Americans. “They are spying on law-abiding citizens as we speak,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who recently won House approval of a measure to end the program. Read…
Category: Govt
DHS Raises Privacy Concerns With Senate Cyber Threat Sharing Bill
Dennis Fisher reports: A major information-sharing bill that’s in the Senate right now would allow private organizations to share threat data with any government agency, something that the Department of Homeland Security says could have severe privacy implications and cause confusion and inefficiencies inside the federal government. The bill, known as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing…
Give It Up, People: Government Regulation of IoT Is Vital
W. David Stephenson writes: Could this be the incident that finally gets everyone in the IoT industry to — as I’ve said repeatedly in the past — make privacy and security Job 1 — and to drop the lobbying groups’ argument that government regulation isn’t needed? I hope so, because the IoT’s future is at stake, and, frankly, not enough companies…
DARPA program tries to track data’s path, find vulnerable points
Amber Corrin reports: While data travels from point A to point B on the Internet, exactly where it goes in between is not really clear. A consequence of this mysterious routing is that the point at which an adversary might attach malicious code is hard to identify. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying…