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Hillicon Valley: House lawmakers fired up for hearing with tech CEOs | Zuckerberg proposes conditional Section 230 reforms

March 24, 2021/in Internet Security

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Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai

Welcome! Follow our cyber reporter, Maggie Miller (@magmill95), and tech team, Chris Mills Rodrigo (@chrisismills) and Rebecca Klar (@rebeccaklar_), for more coverage.

Today: The CEOs of major social media platforms are gearing up to testify before a House committee tomorrow on misinformation around COVID-19 and the recent Capitol riot. Meanwhile, a group of 12 state attorneys general are pressuring Facebook and Twitter to tackle COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, and two lawmakers reintroduced legislation aimed at making internet-connected devices safer for the consumer.

TECH HEARING TIME AGAIN: The CEOs of the country’s biggest social media platforms will testify Thursday before a Congress eager to press them on their roles spreading misinformation related to coronavirus and the lead-up to the deadly insurrection at the Capitol in January.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Google’s Sundar Pichai will appear remotely in front of two House Energy and Commerce subcommittees set to take a markedly different tone from previous hearings.

“We are done with conversation,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), chairwoman of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, said at an event Monday. “We are now moving ahead with regulation and legislation, and that is inevitable. We want them to understand how seriously they better take this.”

What to expect: The hearing will likely focus on the part the massive platforms play in spreading potentially dangerous misinformation – ranging from election result conspiracies to lies about the coronavirus vaccine – and a suite of proposed and forthcoming legislative fixes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives platforms liability protection from content posted by third parties and allows them to safely moderate.

All three companies have highlighted their work on content moderation and new policies recently,…

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Hillicon Valley: Second SolarWinds hack hearing | TikTok to settle privacy lawsuit

February 27, 2021/in Internet Security

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a close up of a flag: Hillicon Valley: Second SolarWinds hack hearing | TikTok to settle privacy lawsuit | Facebook apologizes for removing lawmaker post

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Hillicon Valley: Second SolarWinds hack hearing | TikTok to settle privacy lawsuit | Facebook apologizes for removing lawmaker post

Follow our cyber reporter, Maggie Miller (@magmill95), and tech team, Chris Mills Rodrigo (@chrisismills) and Rebecca Klar (@rebeccaklar_), for more coverage.

Two House committees held the second major hearing this week on the Russian cyber espionage attack that has become known as the SolarWinds hack, and lawmakers are pushing for breach notification legislation. TikTok agreed to pay millions in a settlement over allegations it collected users’ private data, and Facebook apologized to a lawmaker for accidentally labeling and removing a post as “hate speech.” Here’s a behind the scenes draft of early versions of Hillicon Valley.

INTO THE BREACH, PART TWO: House lawmakers on both sides of the aisle lined up behind potential legislation Friday to put in place national breach notification requirements in the wake of a massive foreign cyber espionage attack.

Debate over the legislation took place during the second Capitol Hill hearing this week on what has become known as the SolarWinds breach. The House Homeland Security and House Oversight and Reform panels will hold several hearings on the breach as part of their joint investigation into the incident.

Bipartisan leaders of both committees expressed strong interest in examining breach notification laws as part of an effort to ensure the federal government has visibility into successful cyberattacks on the private sector, and two key lawmakers already have legislation in the pipeline to tackle this.

Read more about the push for legislation here.

At the top of the hearing, lawmakers highlighted concerns over the cybersecurity stance of the federal government, blaming the SolarWinds incident on a “collective failure” to prioritize cybersecurity as a national security imperative.

Video: Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner Opening Remarks at Hearing on the Hack of U.S. Networks by a Foreign Adversary

February 23, 2021/in Computer Security

From Sen. Mark Warner’s office…you can watch the video here.

Below are Chairman Warner’s opening remarks as prepared for delivery:

First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our two new Members, Senators Casey and Gillibrand, to the Committee. I look forward to working with you, and all of our Members, in the bipartisan tradition of this Committee.

The Intelligence Committee’s record of working together in the interest of America’s national security has been due, in no small part, to the tireless efforts of our former Chairman, Senator Burr, and our new Vice Chairman, Senator Rubio. So I want to take this opportunity during my first hearing as Chairman to thank you both for your partnership. I am confident we will be able to keep working together in a bipartisan way in the 117th Congress.

I would like to welcome our witnesses today:

Kevin Mandia, CEO of FireEye;

Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President and CEO of SolarWinds;

Brad Smith, President of Microsoft; and

George Kurtz, President and CEO of CrowdStrike.

We also invited a representative from Amazon Web Services to join us today, but unfortunately, they declined.

Today’s hearing is on the widespread compromise of public and private computer networks in the United States by a foreign adversary, colloquially called the “SolarWinds Hack.” But while most infections appear to have been caused by a trojanized update of SolarWinds’ Orion software, further investigation has revealed additional victims who do not use SolarWinds tools. It has become clear that there is much more to learn about this incident, its causes, its scope and scale, and where we go from here.

This is the second hearing we’ve held on this topic. Our first was a closed hearing on January 6th with the government agencies responding to this incident. It is going to take the combined power of both the public and private sector to understand and respond to what happened.

Preliminary indications suggest that the scope and scale of this incident are beyond any that we’ve confronted as a nation, and its implications are significant. Even though what we’ve seen so far indicates this was…

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