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Congress moves quickly on cyberthreat information sharing

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The U.S. Congress is moving forward quickly with legislation that would encourage private companies to share cyberthreat information with government agencies, despite concerns that two leading bills weaken consumer privacy protections.

The House of Representatives Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to approve the Protecting Cyber Networks Act (PCNA), just two days after the bill was introduced.

The House bill “is a cybersurveillance bill at least as much as it is a cybersecurity bill, and it is written so broadly that it could wind up making the Internet less safe,” Robyn Greene, policy counsel at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute [OTI], said by email.

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NATO moves to apply armed conflict law to cyber warfare – Deutsche Welle

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NATO moves to apply armed conflict law to cyber warfare
Deutsche Welle
After operating for years without a clear legal framework, NATO's 28 member states are moving closer to officially applying the law of armed conflict to cyber warfare, a move that would have far-reaching consequences on how military operations are …

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Michigan Moves Ahead On Computer Security Effort – CBS Local

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Michigan Moves Ahead On Computer Security Effort
CBS Local
LANSING (AP) – Michigan is starting a pilot group that will lead to the creation of a rapid-response team to help the state and its businesses in the event of a major computer attack, officials announced Wednesday. The Cyber Civilian Corps will allow …

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Chop-chop: hacking moves up a gear – Irish Times

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Irish Times

Chop-chop: hacking moves up a gear
Irish Times
Espionage. Cyber warfare has of course been a recurring theme in security conversations this year, and perhaps 2012's most publicised hacking incident was the discovery in May of a two-year old piece of malware dubbed Flame by Kaspersky researchers.

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