National Cyber Security

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Tuesday failed to win over her harshest Republican critics in the U.S. Senate who are threatening to block her nomination if President Barack Obama chooses her for Secretary of State or another top post in his second-term Cabinet. Rice met for about an [...]

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Senior Obama administration officials walked some 50 U.S. senators through a cyber-attack scenario Wednesday evening to press for pending legislation that would give the Department of Homeland Security authority to force critical industries to better protect their systems. Read full article >> View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results Other links [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. officials are set to push for tougher cyber-security measures to protect the nation's water, electrical and telecommunications grid at a closed-door meeting with senators on Wednesday evening, congressional and White House staffers said. Briefers including White House national security adviser John Brennan and FBI Director Robert Mueller will guide senators [...]

Mashable – Should the U.S. government tell private companies how to defend themselves from cyberattacks? Not according to legislation being introduced on Thursday by six Republican senators. The new bill, dubbed the SECURE IT Act, would improve the ability of government computer networks to withstand digital assaults. It would also beef up criminal punishments for [...]

After years of deliberations and several false starts, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduce cybersecurity overhaul that would authorize the Department of Homeland Security to oversee security at critical infrastructure providers, improve system of sharing information about threats. View full post on homeland cyber – Yahoo! News Search Results Other links you may like: , [...]

Want swift action on a complicated, contentious piece of legislation designed to guard against hackers? Invoke Sept. 11. That’s the lesson to be learned from the rhetoric around the long-awaited cyber security legislation introduced in the Senate on Tuesday. View full post on federal hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results Other links you may like: [...]

Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. — Three Democratic state senators say an independent inspector should oversee the New York City Police Department after what they say are abuses including the widespread surveillance of Muslims and the crackdown on Occupy Wall Street protesters. The bill comes in the wake of a series of articles by The Associated [...]