"We need to shed light that this industry really hasn’t been caring about the build quality
and software safety,” said Peiter Zatko, a well-known hacker who is director of Cyber Independent Testing Lab, one of the groups that helped Consumer Reports establish the standards.
Consumer Reports, an influential U. S. non-profit group
that conducts extensive reviews of cars, kitchen appliances and other goods, is gearing up to start considering cyber security and privacy safeguards when scoring products.
Consumer Reports will gradually implement the new methodologies, starting with test projects
that evaluate small numbers of products, Maria Rerecich, the organization’s director of electronics testing, said in a phone interview.
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By REUTERSMARCH 6, 2017, 12:12 A. M. E. S.T.
The group, which issues scores that rank products it reviews, said on Monday it had collaborated with several outside organizations
to develop methodologies for studying how easily a product can be hacked and how well customer data is secured.