A few years ago, the notion of hacking a car or truck over the Internet to control steering and brakes seemed like a bad plot point from CSI: Cyber. Today, the security research community has proven it to be a real possibility, and it’s one that at least two U.S. senators won’t wait to see […]
A new law proposed by senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) two months ago — along with a reevaluation of FCC guidelines — could eliminate whats become a complicated, and sometimes last-minute affair of tuning into games. The Senate bill, called Furthering Access and Networks for Sports (FANS) Act of 2013, aims to get rid of […]
Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, says his newly-introduced legislation, the Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act of 2011 will protect individuals’ personally identifiable information from data theft and penalize firms that don’t adequately secure their customers’ information. Naturally, there are skeptics. The bill would establish ” appropriate minimum security plans” for businesses with 10,000 or […]
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