A press release from the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) framed the new UK GDPR draft as a "common sense" reduction of "pointless paperwork" that would save billions of dollars annually.
Huawei has made “no material progress” on addressing Huawei cybersecurity flaws discovered a year ago. Recent HCSEC study shows Huawei cybersecurity practices are untrustworthy and present high risk to the UK for large 5G network build-outs.
New UN report warns that digital welfare technologies used by many governments could be used to “surveil, target, harass and punish” the poor and vulnerable instead.
As part of the Biden administration's ongoing infrastructure bill project, which looks to commit trillions of dollars to addressing longtime issues with the country's vital utilities, $1.9 billion has been proposed for cybersecurity funding.
New US National Security Directive: Foreign Internet Routers Require Special FCC Approval to be Sold
Consumer-grade internet routers have been added as a category to the FCC's Covered List, which establishes communications equipment and services deemed to be an unacceptable national security risk. Some individual manufacturers, such as Huawei and ZTE, have already been added to this list in years past.
The executive order instructs the National Security Agency, Department of Defense and other agencies to create a benchmarking standard to determine the degree to which AI models are a cyber risk that may impact national security, but stresses that it is not a "mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement" for developers.
Drawing on terms first proposed in a series of stalled-out data privacy bills that date back to at least 2018, the Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 (GSRA) narrows the focus specifically to warrantless government interception at all levels from federal to local.
A new proposed privacy bill, The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, would restrict ad targeting to context and to generalized location data that goes no further than the city level.
With tens of thousands of contractors serving the Defense Department, the new vendor cyber security certificate aims to improve supply chain security by assessing contractors before allowing them to bid.
Latest 2019 Verizon data breach report highlights absence of foundation-level and layered security controls, internal security discipline, and general security awareness as the common denominators in the data breach dilemma.
