Yesterday, with the Senate in Washington and the House meeting in pro forma session (they will be in town today), there were 21 bills introduced. One of those bills will see additional coverage in this blog:
S 2139 A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent international cybercrime, and for other purposes. Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
There has been lots of attention in the press to new proposed legislation to address cyber security issues. This bill, for example, was mentioned Friday in an article on TheHill.com:
“In a separate effort, Sens. (R-S.C.),
(D-R.I.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and (R-N.C.) on Thursday reintroduced
legislation originally rolled out in 2018 that would crack down on cyber
criminals.
“Their bill, the International Cybercrime Prevention Act [link added for original version of bill], would tighten consequences for hacking a critical infrastructure organization, such as a dam or a hospital, along with expanding the Justice Department’s ability to go after botnet groups.”
We will see how serious the four sponsors of this bill are
by how fast this gets considered in Committee. The same goes for the other
bills mentioned in Friday’s article, none of which have actually been
introduced yet, maybe today?
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