European Union's First Cybersecurity Law Gets Green Light (bloomberg.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The European Union approved its first rules on cybersecurity, forcing businesses to strengthen defenses and companies such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to report attacks. The European Parliament endorsed legislation that will impose security and reporting obligations on service operators in industries such as banking, energy, transport and health and on digital operators like search engines and online marketplaces. The law, voted through on Wednesday in Strasbourg, France, also requires EU national governments to cooperate among themselves in the field of network security. The rules "will help prevent cyberattacks on Europe's important interconnected infrastructures," said Andreas Schwab, a German member of the 28-nation EU Parliament who steered the measures through the assembly. EU governments have already supported the legislation. The EU Parliament also noted that network-securitiy incidents resulting from human error, technical difficulties, technical failures or cyberattacks cause annual losses of upwards of $377 billion (340 billion euros).

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Re:Finally.

[Opportunist]

This has nothing to do with "getting stuff done" and everything with not wanting to spend money on something that doesn't make them money. Do you think the chemical industry was too keen on buying those protection suits and air filtering for their workers? I mean, why bother, if one of them gets killed by chlorine gas, there's plenty of unemployed out there who're happy for getting a job.

They're not intentionally choosing to have exploits. They just intentionally choose to not give a shit because it's cheaper and increases the profit. Corporations are not "evil". They don't dump oil into the sea because they want to poison the fishes, they do it 'cause it saves them money.