FATCA Clarification Bill Introduced by The Council’s Government Affairs Team H.R. 6159 was introduced this week by U.S. Reps. John Larson (D-CT) and Ed Royce (R-CA). The legislation is a critical step
Last week, Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) introduced the first bill in Congress pertaining to cyber insurance, The Data Breach Insurance Act (H.R. 6032). This legislation would provide a tax credit
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently issued a PSA asking ransomware victims to support the fight against ransomware through “reporting ransomware incidents regardless of outcome.” Ideally, this will allow
Tom Ridge, former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was a recent cybersecurity panelist at the Corncordia Summit in New York. While first mentioning the recent incidents in
On Tuesday, Center-Forward, a non-partisan organization seeking to advance centrist positions in D.C., hosted a panel titled Cybersecurity: A Critical Conversation to address the cyber landscape in Washington, D.C. The
The leaked NSA hacking tools are reportedly now being used on Cisco customers, according to a recently published advisory. The NSA has relied on software flaws to penetrate the computers
“It’s not if but when your data will be breached,” claims Rick Hindmand, a healthcare attorney and IT expert. With more than 100 million healthcare records compromised in 2015 and
On Thursday, Yahoo Inc. disclosed a security breach that occurred in late 2014, affecting at least 500 million of its one billion users. It is postulated that the cybercrime was
A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), presented to the President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, revealed that the number of “cyber incidents reported by federal agencies
Digital security firm Gemalto found that data breaches have increased 15 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the previous six months, according to its latest Breach Level
