A California bill that will ban the use of undeclared bots during elections is set to take effect on July 1, 2019, after Gov. Jerry Brown signed it into law Friday. “This bill would, with certain exceptions, make it unlawful for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online with…
Two weeks after it passed the U.S. House of Representatives, a bill that would codify and modernize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM) cybersecurity program was introduced into the Senate. Known as the Advancing Cybersecurity Diagnostics and Mitigation Act, the legislation was originally proposed last July by Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Tex., and ushered into…
A year and nearly four months after the measure was introduced, the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act officially passed after President Donald Trump signed the legislation into law. Originally proposed as H.R. 2105 in April 2017, the act was later absorbed into U.S. federal law S.770, and requires the director of the National Institute of…
U.S. Congressman John Ratcliffe, R-Tex., yesterday introduced a bill that, if passed, would officially codify the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM) cybersecurity program, and allow the agency to modernize it as needed.
By a 38-0 margin, the Massachusetts Senate last week unanimously passed S.2455, a bill that affords consumers enhanced protections in the event of a breach affecting a consumer reporting agency such as Equifax.
The UK-based digital watchdog organization Open Rights Group is expressing concern that an age verification tool for pornography sites could potentially expose users’ sensitive data, according to a report from the BBC.
A newly proposed legislation introduced by two Democratic U.S. senators aims to impose stiff, mandatory penalties on credit reporting agencies (CRAs) like that fail to protect consumers’ sensitive information from data breaches.
More than 5.3 million residents of North Carolina were victims of data breaches in 2017 – an escalating trend that has prompted state Attorney General Josh Stein (D) and state Rep. Jason Saine (R) to introduce newly proposed legislation to prevent further incidents and protect the public.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday unanimously passed H.R. 3359, a legislation that would redesignate DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved the USA Liberty Act, which reauthorizes Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but with new privacy protections.
