Approval has been given by the Senate to legislation that would extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for another two years, which headed to the desk of President Joe Biden just minutes after the surveillance law expired, reports CyberScoop.
Mounting artificial intelligence-related cybersecurity risks have prompted cybersecurity agencies from the Five Eyes countries, which includes the U.S., to release new joint guidelines regarding the safe deployment and operation of AI systems, according to SecurityWeek.
More protections against data brokers were urged by lawmakers and data privacy experts to be added to the draft American Privacy Rights Act, which would only allow the deletion of consumer data provided that individual requests are made to the data brokers, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
The House has approved the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which seeks to bolster data privacy protections by prohibiting the warrantless acquisition of electronic and remote computing service providers' customer information among law enforcement and intelligence agencies, according to CyberScoop.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was given a three-year prison sentence after exfiltrating more than $12.3 million from two decentralized finance cryptocurrency exchanges hacked in July 2022, The Hacker News reports.
Version 4.0 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) puts greater emphasis on application security than did previous versions of the standard. It also adds a new “customized approach” option that allows merchants and other entities to come up with their own ways to comply with requirements, and which also has implications for a...
