Organizations developing software have been urged by the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to eradicate buffer overflow vulnerabilities by implementing secure-by-design principles, The Register reports.
More severe penalties would be imposed on cybercriminals under new legislation revising the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act introduced by Senate Armed Services Committee Cybersecurity Subcommittee Chair Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., CyberScoop reports.