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Internet-service providers and financial-services companies would share data about networks of infected computers known as botnets under a pilot program announced today by the Obama administration.
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President Barack Obama’s administration threatened to veto a cybersecurity bill set for a House vote this week, saying it would erode privacy safeguards and not do enough to protect critical U.S. systems.
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The U.S. plans a diplomatic push to get more countries to join in cyber-crime investigations, Howard Schmidt , the top White House cyber-security official, said yesterday.
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Proposed legislation in Congress doesn’t go far enough to improve U.S. security against cyber spying and potentially crippling hacker attacks, a former U.S. national intelligence director said.
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U.S. lawmakers should pass legislation to protect the nation’s power grids, financial networks and transportation systems from hacker attacks, Howard Schmidt, the White House cybersecurity coordinator, said.
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An Obama administration policy for tightening global defenses against computer attacks places cybersecurity on equal footing with military and economic threats, according to security analysts.
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Companies including utilities, banks and phone carriers would have to spend almost nine times more on cybersecurity to prevent a digital Pearl Harbor from plunging millions into darkness, paralyzing the financial system or cutting communications, a Bloomberg Government study found.
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The Obama administration won’t back legislation to combat online piracy if it encourages censorship, undermines cybersecurity or disrupts the structure of the Internet, three White House technology officials said.
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On Feb. 3, President Barack Obama and the entire West Wing lost access to e-mail for more than seven hours. A tree-trimmer had accidentally cut the lines running out of the White House data center. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer sent a bulletin via Twitter -- the only way he could get the news out, he said -- letting the world know that “Verizon is working to solve the problem.”
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WikiLeaks , condemned by the U.S. government for posting secret data leaked by insiders, may have used music- and photo-sharing networks to obtain and publish classified documents, according to a computer security firm.
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