{"id":258455,"date":"2018-05-03T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T10:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=258455"},"modified":"2018-05-03T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T10:11:37","slug":"google-and-microsoft-fight-hack-back-law-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/258455-google-and-microsoft-fight-hack-back-law-in-georgia.html","title":{"rendered":"Google and Microsoft fight &#8220;hack-back&#8221; law in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia in the US is considering a new law that will allow companies to &#8220;hack back&#8221; when cyber attacked, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/hacktivists-tech-giants-protest-georgias-hack-back-bill\/131628\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Threatpost reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents have criticised the bill, warning that allowing companies to go on the offensive may encourage a\u00a0new kind of corporate warfare.<\/p>\n<p>The criminalisation of activities like vulnerability research and penetration testing is also a concern.<\/p>\n<p>Google and Microsoft are among the law&#8217;s opponents, and have asked the governor of Georgia to veto the bill.<\/p>\n<p>They argued that the bill\u00a0will make Georgia a laboratory for offensive cybersecurity practices that have not been authorised in other jurisdictions, which may have unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft and Google warned that the provisions in the bill could lead to abuse and be deployed for anti-competitive purposes.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/257281-eu-nations-build-hacker-proof-digital-highway.html\">EU nations build hacker-proof digital highway<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia is considering a new law that will allow companies to &#8220;hack back&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":242088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1759,44160,167,50473,123],"class_list":["post-258455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-cyber-attack","tag-cyberattack","tag-google","tag-hack-back","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258495,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258455\/revisions\/258495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}