"House Passes Better Cybercrime Metrics Act"

The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill that would change how cybercrime is tracked, measured, and reported by the federal government.  The Better Cybercrime Metrics Act was approved by the House in a bipartisan 377-48 vote.  Once signed into law, the bill will encourage local and federal law enforcement agencies to report cybercrime in their jurisdictions to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  The law will require that the Bureau report cybercrime metrics and cyber enabled crime categories, as it already does for other types of property crimes.  The new legislation supports the creation of a classification system that can be used to categorize various cybercrimes.  The new legislation authorizes a study at the National Academies of Science “to establish a taxonomy for cybercrime incidents in consultation with federal, state, local, and tribal stakeholders, criminologists, and business leaders that would inform the FBI’s reporting of cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime.”  The new bill will also require the Bureau of Justice Statistics at the Department of Justice and the Census Bureau to include questions related to cybercrime and cyber enabled crime as part of its annual National Crime Victimization Survey.

Infosecurity reports: "House Passes Better Cybercrime Metrics Act"