Will new laws give federal cybercops too much power?
Last year, a single strain of malware was responsible for credit card breaches at Target, Home Depot, and more than 1,000 other US companies, with damages totalling hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars. In many cases, the companies involved didn’t know about the threat until it had been alive in their systems for months. For many industry observers, the most painful point is the timing: If the industry had raised the alarm when the first warning signs surfaced, the worst of the damage could have been averted.
That idea seems to have gotten Washington’s attention. In February, President Obama signed an executive order to promote information sharing on cyberthreats, and a new crop of information-sharing bills in Congress look…
Source:: The Verge
