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Senator Prods Federal Agencies on IoT Mess
Krebs on Security ^ | October 25th, 2016 at 1:21 pm | Brian Krebs

Posted on 10/26/2016 7:21:23 AM PDT by snarkpup

The co-founder of the newly launched Senate Cybersecurity Caucus is pushing federal agencies for possible solutions and responses to the security threat from insecure “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, such as the network of hacked security cameras and digital video recorders that were reportedly used to help bring about last Friday’s major Internet outages.

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I have been asked by several reporters over the past few days whether I think government has a role to play in fixing the IoT mess. Personally, I do not believe there has ever been a technology challenge that was best served by additional government regulation.

However, I do believe that the credible threat of government regulation is very often what’s needed to spur the hi-tech industry into meaningful action and self-regulation. And that process usually starts with inquiries like these. So, here’s hoping more lawmakers in Congress can get up to speed quickly on this vitally important issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at krebsonsecurity.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: cybersecurity; ddos; internetofthings; malware

1 posted on 10/26/2016 7:21:23 AM PDT by snarkpup
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Network Security Nightmare of Things bump for later....


2 posted on 10/26/2016 9:54:39 AM PDT by indthkr
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