Companies including Google urge officials to strike a new deal to ease trans-Atlantic data flows.
The future of United Nations-led efforts to create rules around how nations should behave in cyberspace is unclear, researchers and experts say, even as countries respond to a growing number of ransomware attacks.
The Biden administration wants Congress to add teeth to legislation that would force operators of critical infrastructure to disclose cyberattacks.
As the number and sophistication of cyberattacks jumps, financial firms are sharing more threat intelligence with each other, according to the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit group that facilitates the exchange of cybersecurity intelligence.
New Cooperative said it was hit with a cyberattack that security researchers are linking to BlackMatter, which the researchers said demanded $5.9 million to unlock the organization’s data.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s $10 million settlement this week with an analytics firm suggests regulators are taking a harder line on the data-broker industry that investors increasingly rely on to make trades, legal experts and former SEC officials say.
Regional data-sharing rules are outdated and ineffective for international data flows, Elizabeth Denham says.
The Biden administration last week released a draft blueprint for a so-called “zero trust” approach to fending off cyber hackers. Here are the basics of of what it would look like in practice.
A delay in the EU’s WhatsApp fine illustrates some regulators’ dissatisfaction with how the bloc enforces the GDPR.
Businesses transferring data from the European Union to the U.S. must provide new legal guarantees about data privacy starting this month.
The growing body and scope of breach notification rules from regulators, state authorities and soon the federal government risks harming their effectiveness, industry groups warn.
Companies must pay closer attention to what they say after hackers strike, lawyers warn, as regulators crack down on inaccurate disclosures and Congress debates mandatory reporting of cybersecurity breaches.