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• Pentagon accuses China of cyberattacks on U.S military, business targets

  Chinese cyberespionage activities are fueling a rapid modernization of the country's defense and high tech industries, the Pentagon said in an unusually candid assessment of China's military and security developments last year.

• Florida restricts use of drones by law enforcement officials

  A new Florida law restricts the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, by state law enforcement officials. It's the first law of its kind in the country.

• Spy court OK'd all U.S. wiretap requests it received in 2012

  A special court established to review government requests for warrants to conduct electronic surveillance of suspected foreign spies received close to 1,900 warrant requests last year -- all of which it approved.

• Groups criticize FBI plan to require Internet backdoors for wiretaps

  Privacy groups are denouncing a federal government move to force Internet companies like Facebook and Google to build backdoors that would let the FBI and other agencies snoop in on real time online communications.

• CISPA appears doomed in Senate

  Key lawmakers are suggesting that the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, will soon die in the U.S. Senate -- just like last year.

• House Intelligence panel OKs CISPA after closed door meeting

  The U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday voted 18-2 in favor of a controversial information-sharing bill that was reintroduced in Congress this February after failing last year amid widespread protests from rights group and a White House veto threat.

• Spamhaus attacks expose huge open DNS server dangers

  Massive distributed denial of service attacks on Spamhaus this week focused widespread attention on the huge security threats posed by millions of poorly configured Internet Domain Name System servers.

• U.S. military networks not prepared for cyber threats, report warns

  The U.S. is dangerously unprepared to face a full-scale cyber conflict launched by a peer adversary, a report by the military's Defense Science Board (DSB) warns.

• Return of CISPA: Cybersecurity boon or privacy threat?

  Rights groups fear widespread sharing of personal information; security managers see threat information sharing as key part of corporate cyber defenses

• Is it now crazy to offshore IT to China?

  China has been developing an IT outsourcing industry aimed at bringing in business from the U.S. and Europe. It has succeeded, but then again it hasn't thrived and now may face more barriers.

• Obama executive order redefines critical infrastructure

  President Barack Obama's cybersecurity executive order, signed on Tuesday, could significantly expand the list of companies categorized as part of U.S. critical infrastructure sector, security experts said Wednesday.

• Obama to issue cybersecurity executive order this month

  President Barack Obama is expected to issue a cybersecurity executive order in the days after his Feb. 12 State of the Union address.

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  Pentagon to add thousands of new cybersecurity jobs

  The Pentagon is planning to expand its cyber security force nearly five fold over the next several years in a bid to bolster its defensive and offensive computer capabilities.

• Three indicted for making, spreading Gozi Trojan

  Three individuals were indicted in New York today for allegedly creating and distributing the Gozi malware that's said to have caused tens of million of dollars in losses at several major U.S. banks.

• Business Roundtable backs CISPA approach to cybersecurity

  A cybersecurity proposal released Wedneday by the influential Business Roundtable supports many of the provisions contained in the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last year.