Leaders in the US Senate are trying to fast-track new cybersecurity legislation that will create costly new regulations for some businesses, some critics said Thursday. A plan by Senate Democrats to move the Cybersecurity Act, introduced this week, directly to the Senate floor for a vote raises serious questions about…
New US cybersecurity act could be costly for some critical system vendors
Leaders in the US Senate are trying to fast-track new cybersecurity legislation that will create costly new regulations for some businesses, some critics said Thursday. A plan by Senate Democrats to move the Cybersecurity Act, introduced this week, directly to the Senate floor for a vote raises serious questions about…
Software vendors fail to stem tide of security flaws, report shows
Many of the software industry’s top vendors are still struggling to reduce the number of vulnerabilities across all classes of products, an analysis of 2011’s flaw figures by research company Secunia has revealed. Using its own database plus publically known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), Secunia’s Yearly Report 2011 found…
Europe cloud vendors cleaning up with data protection fears
Concern in the European Union that US data protection laws are too lax may have created a new market for European cloud computing services. A recent survey indicated that 70 percent of Europeans have concerns about their online data and how well companies secure it and now two Swedish companies,…
Mobile malware exaggerated by “charlatan” vendors, says Google engineer
Security vendors are behaving like “charlatans and scammers” by peddling antivirus apps to protect consumers from smartphone malware, Google’s open source champion Chris DiBona has said in an uncompromising attack on the industry. In recent weeks, antivirus vendors including Kaspersky Lab, McAfee and even infrastructure companies Juniper Networks and IBM,…
European Union to Introduce Liability Rules for Cloud Vendors (September 28 & 29, 2011)
The European Union (EU) plans to introduce the Binding Safe Processor Rules, which would hold vendors of cloud services in the EU liable for data security breaches……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
LIGATT: The answer is D. Software Vendors (The reason is security baselines are often established by software vendors for the software they write.)
LIGATT: The answer is D. Software Vendors (The reason is security baselines are often established by software vendors for the software they write.) View full post on Twitter / LIGATT Gregory Evans | LinkedIn Interview With Gregory Evans Gregory Evans Security Expert Gregory Evans on Cyber Crime
