Federal Data Breach Bill (H.R. 2221) Passes House

H.R. 2221 defines personal information as, “an individual’s first name or initial and last name, or address, or phone number, in combination with any 1 or more of the following data elements for that individual:

(i) Social Security number
(ii) Driver’s license number or other State identification number
(iii) Financial account number, or credit or debit [...]

On hackers, maturity, and the international market

There has been several published works on the what the media calls hackers, the hacker underground, the information security industry, and the technorati class in general lately. Here are a few:

Phrack #63 section 13 The death of the underground
Zero For 0wned The “Industry check” section
H Security All Around My (Black) Hat
CNN Technology Hanging with hackers can [...]

Notes from Monday

My notes from the discussion at the Washington Technology Industry Association SIG for July on IP addresses:

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Software liability

Another perennial topic that seems to come up whenever I am speaking to someone who is a consumer of technology. If they are one of the people that I actually bore with some of the details about what I do, it isn’t uncommon for me to talk about their individual concerns about internet security and identity [...]