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Businesses, Republicans aim for cybersecurity assistance, not regulation
October 12, 2011
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Cyberattacks have business leaders concerned, but what may be equally worrisome to them is the potential for sweeping new government regulations designed to counter cyberthreats. On Tuesday the Business Roundtable, which includes dozens of America's largest corporations, released a report calling for industry-friendly, voluntary steps, rather than overt mandates, to ...
New Romney adviser: NSA key to ensuring cybersecurity
October 7, 2011
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Any effective American response to cyberthreats needs to harness the resources of the National Security Agency, the spy agency's former chief, Michael Hayden, said on Thursday. Currently, efforts are too divided among other agencies, none of which can match the NSA's capabilities, said Hayden, who also served as the head ...
Panetta assigns new Pentagon cyber chief
October 4, 2011
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The Defense Department announced a new top official on Tuesday to oversee its cyber programs. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta appointed Eric Rosenbach, a former Senate staffer and private security consultant, as deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global ...
Intelligence panel head: U.S. must confront 'intolerable' Chinese cyberespionage
October 4, 2011
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The United States and its allies in Europe and Asia need to band together and confront China's campaign of cyberespionage, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers , R-Mich., said on Tuesday. Although governments have long spied on each other, China has gone beyond that by engaging in "brazen and wide-scale ...
Net Neutrality Rules Challenged Around the Country
September 29, 2011
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The first legal challenges to federal Internet competition regulations came on Monday, just 72 hours after the rules were officially published in the Federal Register, according to court documents. Free Press, a national media reform group, announced on Wednesday that it was taking the Federal Communications Commission to court over ...
Report: Rules don't stop U.S. companies from restricting Internet overseas
September 20, 2011
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Current laws and corporate codes of conduct aren't preventing Western tech companies from colluding with repressive governments around the world, according to a report released on Tuesday by a Canadian security firm. "Most companies have acceded to China's demands for information control, seeing this as the price of doing business," ...
Leahy: Amending patent bill would be unnecessary delay
September 7, 2011
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Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., took to the Senate floor Wednesday to urge his colleagues to pass sweeping patent reform legislation without further amendments. "Any amendment would force reconsideration by the House and more unnecessary delay," Leahy said. "Patent reform legislation has been debated exhaustively in both the Senate ...
NASA chief technologist to leave agency
September 6, 2011
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The first NASA chief technologist in a decade is leaving the agency to return to Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology. Bobby Braun, who came to the space agency two years ago through an agreement with Georgia Tech, will leave in October, NASA said. As NASA's chief technologist, Braun was a ...
Analyst: An AT&T win in court means more regulation
September 2, 2011
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If AT&T wins its court battle with the Justice Department it could cause wave of new government regulation, according to telecom analyst Tom Wheeler. In a blog post on Friday, Wheeler, a former president of the National Cable Television Association and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, argued ...
FCC names new managing director
September 2, 2011
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski named David Robbins as the agency's new managing director on Friday. Robbins comes to the FCC from the Small Business Administration, where he was an associate administrator for the Office of Management & Administration. "David's leadership and management experience will be invaluable as we ...
