"We need to shed light that this industry really hasn’t been caring about the build quality<br />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.<br />Consumer Reports, an influential U. S. non-profit group<br />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.<br />Consumer Reports will gradually implement the new methodologies, starting with test projects<br />that evaluate small numbers of products, Maria Rerecich, the organization’s director of electronics testing, said in a phone interview.<br />Consumer Reports to Consider Cyber Security in Product Reviews -<br />By REUTERSMARCH 6, 2017, 12:12 A. M. E. S.T.<br />The group, which issues scores that rank products it reviews, said on Monday it had collaborated with several outside organizations<br />to develop methodologies for studying how easily a product can be hacked and how well customer data is secured.
