by Paul Rosenzweig | Dec 3, 2013 | Cybersecurity
Lawfare readers will recall that I earlier blogged about the Federal Trade Commission’s case against Wyndham Hotels. Under the mantle of its consumer protection mandate, the FTC has sought to impose civil penalties against those companies who do not…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Dec 2, 2013 | Cybersecurity, National Security
Just before Thanksgiving, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (which has among its membership luminaries such as Eric Schmidt of Google and Shirley Ann Jackson, the President of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute) issued a…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Nov 26, 2013 | Cybersecurity
Congress is in recess now (that’s why it’s so quiet here in Washington) and when they return the first order of business for the Senate is to take up the 2014 NDAA. The bill, authorizing activities of the Department of Defense, is one of the few…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Nov 4, 2013 | Cybersecurity
Over the past month, Jane Chong has written a series of posts published over at Security States that go under the title “Bad Code.” Her thesis (amply documented) is that those who write software code generally take inadequate precautions to ensure…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Oct 29, 2013 | Cybersecurity
Not much, of course. But according to this report in the Washington Post, Secretary Sebelius today responded to reports of a cybersecurity breach that was discovered recently. According to Sebelius “there was not a breach” but a “theoretical problem”…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Oct 21, 2013 | Cybersecurity
And here it is: Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework. Details to follow …
