Cybersecurity Legislation News Today

President Joe Biden has now directly called on Congress to act on privacy legislation. Last week, he told lawmakers in his State of the Union address: It’s time to pass bipartisan legislation to stop Big Tech from collecting personal data on kids and teenagers online.

ADULTS who engage in sexual exploitation of minors, including the possession of child pornography, could face harsher prison terms, ranging from 15 to 20 years, if proposed changes to the Cybercri...

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and amid growing concerns regarding the threat of increased cyberattacks targeting infrastructure and other critical industries, there has...

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook, ANZ Regional Director, Attivo Networks:  Attacks against public and private sector assets reached a crescendo in 2021,...

Police and fire department phones off-line. >> even small town networks are attractive targets for these bad actors we cannot rely on security. >> we found out the data had been held for ransom. >> this morning there was a bipartisan effort on capitol hill to reintroduce cybersecurity legislation. senator graham is leading the effort. he told me he wants the department of defense to clearly define when a cyber attack coming from one of our adversaries like russia should be considered an act of w...

Absentee because of the covid-19 virus, but if that works to get more people to participate, why would you want to stop that? there has not been evidence of fraud in absentee ballots at all? >> its insignificant. any fraud that has been that is for sure less than 0.001%. i want to ask you about cyberattacks. the u.s. secretary of energy is warning that american adversaries have the capability to shut down the u.s. power grid. this was an issue you were interested in when you were in the senate. ...

It is because the chinese president addressed a strategic dilemma. >> translator: mankind has once again reached a crossroads. which direction should we choose? cooperation or confrontation? >> after the u.s.-china clash at apex, they are focused on the upcoming g20 summit in argentina, where president trump and xi are expected to meet. recently signing cybersecurity legislation, the presidents lay down a marker. >> china wants to make a deal, they sent a list of things that they are willing to ...

Departments. so my knowledge, there has been no proposed legislation of any kind. my conversations with mr. bossert at the white house have not produced any type of liaison or way of going forward on this issue. as you know, there are multiple congressional committees that touch on cybersecurity. and it really complicates life if there is not somebody at the department of justice whose job it is to work with us on cybersecurity legislation. and the silence has been deafening. if you could get me...

Including the opening of an office of the department in silicon valley so that we can better build our partnerships out there. im pleased that congress is moving on cybersecurity legislation. we need cybersecurity legislation to promote information sharing with the private sector. weve decided that in certain circumstances its appropriate to offer people in the private sector immunity from the risk of civil prosecution if they share what are called cyber-threat indicators with the department of ...

Glass house. we so depend on the nrlt net for everything that we need from our communication to our commerce to our infrastructure, but we also dont have the proper balance of resources right now. the proper balance of attention to the threats that are out there. when i say, im not just talking about the government. its been since 2002 that we passed major cybersecurity legislation, thats five years before anybody had heard of the iphone. its also the case when youre talking about power companie...