The sheer size and frequency of the recent credit card data breaches at Target, Neiman Marcus and other companies are prompting lawmakers to consider legislative options to keep sophisticated cyberthefts from happening.
"If anything, we've learned from this major, major breach that we can no longer do nothing," said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. "We have to take action."
The bad guys who stole data from as many as 110 million Target customers are so good at what they do that even the most modern security programs couldn't detect them. If security software can't keep up, hopes for regulation to stop fraud are slim.
"This is kind of an ongoing war, and the types of threats are changing all the time," said Fran Rosch, a vice president at the security software company Symantec. He appeared Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary panel, which explored legislative options in data security.
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