A national data breach notification bill was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.
The Data Accountability and Trust Act would require any organization that experiences a breach of electronic data containing personal information to notify all U.S. individuals whose information is breached. The law requires that the Federal Trade Commission to also be notified.
The UK MoD has certified PGP Corporation's whole disk encryption technology as suitable for use on British military computers. However, like most software-only solutions, it has been approved only for machines holding fairly low-level information.
A scheme to collect biometrics data from people seeking asylum in Australia will be introduced to crack down on identity fraud in both Sydney and Melbourne.
The scheme will see protection visa applicants asked to voluntarily provide a digital facial image and a scan of their fingerprints.
As Obama focuses on Afghanistan, the cybersecurity plan he announced six months ago appears stuck in the mud. CSO Senior Editor Bill Brenner says the President must follow through on his promise to manage multiple crises at a time.
Businesses running open Wi-Fi networks should brace themselves for a slew of copyright warnings from rights holders, internet law expert Lilian Edwards has told ZDNet UK.
The European Union has finally agreed the last details of the Telecom Reform Package, and decided that citizens' internet access can be restricted if necessary, but only after a "fair and impartial procedure including the user's right to be heard".
Britain is to push ahead with a law to clamp down on illegal file sharing, that would start with a series of warning letters and could result in repeat offenders losing their Internet connection.
Canadian open source companies doing development in the U.S. are seldom aware of export regulations requiring encryption algorithms in the code to be filed with the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
The US Department of Defence has unequivocally backed the use of more open source software, describing the genre as one that provides advantages when it comes to achieving the department's objectives.
Lord Mandelson has announced that he intends to pursue file sharers and cut off the connections of persistent offenders.
Mandelson restated his controversial plans to adopt a tougher approach to online piracy in a speech today at the Cabinet Forum.
This week the Federal Government will open its data to web developers during its first hack day.
Around 150 attendees are expected to descend on the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra for GovHack, where developers will be encouraged to test the effectiveness of mash ups between Australian Government data sets and commercial APIs.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson has said he will study new medical evidence before approving the extradition to the US of computer hacker Gary McKinnon.
He said he had "stopped the clock" on proceedings to give Mr McKinnon's lawyers time to appeal in Europe.
The National Security Agency (NSA) is setting up a new $1.5 billion cybersecurity data center at the Utah National Guard's Camp Williams near Salt Lake City.
The 1-million-square foot center will form the hub of the highly-classified Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) launched during the Bush Administration.
Great article by Tim O'Reilly discussing the recent change of whitehouse.gov to use open source, including the Drupal CMS, among others. Great stuff. Improved security? Yesterday, the new media team at the White House announced via the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal, the open source content management system. That Drupal implementation is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with Apache, MySQL and the rest of the LAMP stack. Apache Solr is the new White House search engine.
America takes national security very seriously and that applies, too, to Internet security, with no-less than President Obama going online with a video address calling on all Americans to heed a cybersecurity call-to-action and for government, the private sector and everyday citizens to focus on their own responsibilities for security on the net.
The UK government has launched plans to find the best young hackers through a talent competition.
Would-be cyberdefenders will be rated on their abilities to thwart attacks and hack into websites. Winners will be offered courses by the respected SANS Institute and assigned mentors.
A Swedish court has seized control of all assets belonging to Hans Pandeya, the chief executive of Global Gaming Factory X and the man who wants to acquire The Pirate Bay.
Nice interview with industry leaders and customers on intrusion detection and pen testing issues that affect all of us. Fortify Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Brian Chess made a stir last year when he predicted -- incorrectly, so far -- that penetration testing would be a dead art in 2009. Among those who shrugged off the suggestion was Robert Maley, CISO for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A US bank is suing Google for the identity of a Gmail user after a bank employee accidentally sent the user a file that included the names, addresses, tax IDs, and loan info for more than 1,300 of the bank's customers.
