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Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga, has introduced the bipartisan Application Privacy, Protection and Security (APPS) Act of 2013 (H.R. 1913). Its purpose is to require app developers to maintain privacy policies, obtain consent from consumers before collecting data, and securely maintain the data they collect.
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The European Union could soon consider a proposal that would give law enforcement the ability to engage in “offensive hacking,” i.e., compromise private infrastructure and systems to gather information via spyware, delete data or even take servers offline completely when there is probable cause to suspect cybercriminal activity.
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Infosecurity Europe has released basic figures on last month’s eighteenth annual exhibition and conference: pre-ABC audit figures show a 6% increase in visitors over 2012 to 13,200, with more than 70 new exhibitors.
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Cost and lack of support, training, and management approval are the roadblocks standing in the way of secure development, said Steve Lipner, partner director of programme management in Trustworthy Computing Security at Microsoft, in a press conference at Security Development Conference in San Francisco, May 14 2013.
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Opening the Security Development Conference in San Francisco, May 14 2013, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Trustworthy Computing, Scott Charney, called for vendors and governments to follow Microsoft’s lead in conforming to the ISO 27034-1 standard.