The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday approved two significant data privacy bills — one that would force TikTok to separate from its Chinese ownership or be stripped from app stores in the U.S. and a second that would block data brokers from selling or transferring Americans’ data to foreign adversaries. The second bill […]
The British government has been accused by a parliamentary committee of taking the “ostrich strategy” by burying its head in the sand over the “large and imminent” national cyber threat posed by ransomware. The criticism follows the government publishing on Monday its formal response to a report from the Joint Committee on the National Security […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo Focus: The United Kingdom , Geo-Specific Parliamentary Committee Says UK Must Be More Aggressive Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • December 12, 2023 The U.K. Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy recommended that the government elevate ransomware as an issue. (Image: Shutterstock) A U.K. parliamentary committee investigating ransomware […]
The efforts of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to establish rules of engagement to combatants in a cyberwar should be applauded internationally, even if adherence is likely to be limited. The ICRC recently released a set of rules for civilian hackers involved in conflicts to follow in order to clarify the line between civilians […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has published a new set of rules urging hacktivists to abide by international humanitarian law in times of conflict. Writing in the European Journal of International Law (EJIL), the ICRC warned that cyber-attacks carried out by civilians during wartime are increasingly causing disruption to non-military targets such as […]