Obama pushes cybersecurity legislation

Obama talks with CEOs about cybersecurity bill

By Los Angeles Times (MCT) By Ken Dilanian and Jessica Guynn (McClatchy/Tribune - MCT Information Services)

Created: Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:15 a.m. CDT

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama met with more than a dozen corporate chief executives to seek their support for stalled cybersecurity legislation amid increasing evidence that government agencies, businesses and individuals are vulnerable to computer network break-ins.

The closed-door session Wednesday at the White House came a day after the nation’s top intelligence officials warned in a Senate hearing that cyberattacks and digital spying have eclipsed terrorism as the top threat to national security. They said the chance of a major attack is remote in the near term, but digital thefts of intellectual property are putting U.S. competitiveness at risk.

–MCT News Service

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