Law Blog 2.0

Largely in reaction to a devastating cyber attack against Google last week, and general concern about the vulnerability of the nations information superhighway, the house passes the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009 (available at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:h4061) 422 to 5. The companion bill in the senate is Cybersecurity Act of 2009, or Senate Bill 773, will “ensure the continued free flow of commerce within the United States and with its global trading partners through secure cyber communications, to provide for the continued development and exploitation of the Internet and intranet communications for such purposes, to provide for the development of a cadre of information technology specialists to improve and maintain effective cyber security defenses against disruption, and for other purposes.” The senate bill is much broader in scope (calling for example a cybersecurity [...]