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"Confirmed attendees include Eric E. Schmidt of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeffrey P. Bezos of Amazon and Rupert Murdoch of News Corp."

"The Obama administration asked Congress to renew the provisions, while taking a coy stance about whether any particular changes were a good idea."

"Because reporters often retain unauthorized defense documents, Drake’s conviction would establish a legal precedent making it possible to prosecute journalists as spies."

"The strategy calls for officials from the State Department, the Pentagon, the Justice Department, the Commerce Department and the Department of Homeland Security to work with their counterparts around the world..."

"Last month’s incursion was 'very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack,' Sony has said."

"Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)’s Web Services cloud-computing unit was used by hackers in last month’s attack against Sony Corp. (SNE)’s online entertainment systems, according to a person with knowledge of the matter."

"Mr. Prince’s new company, Reflex Responses, obtained another multimillion-dollar contract to protect a string of planned nuclear power plants and to provide cybersecurity."

"Privacy groups said that the administration’s proposals did not appear to put in place strict enough controls to protect personal information against potential government surveillance."

“Let me assure you that the resources of this company have been focused on investigating the entire nature and impact of the cyber attack we’ve all experienced and on fixing it.”

"The compromised debit account information included customer names, bank account numbers and account names, Sony has said."

The State Internet Information Office: "Among many other duties, the agency will direct “online content management;” supervise online gaming, video and publications; promote major news Web sites; and oversee online government propaganda."

“They are keeping location data and the statement is a little misleading on that point.”

“The fact that two separate networks are involved in this security breach suggests Sony discovered a major underlying problem that already existed.”

"The electronics conglomerate is the latest Japanese company to come under fire for not disclosing bad news quickly."

"Some security specialists said they believed Apple was not tracking people, but rather collecting data to update its location databases, since Wi-Fi networks can quickly come and go."

"Corporate cloud computing is expected to grow rapidly, by more than 25 percent a year, to $55.5 billion by 2014, IDC estimates."

"Our industrial-control systems are very, very vulnerable to attack and the security we have installed today is insufficient to protect us," Baker said.

Your Apple Product is STALKING You!!! "A hidden file on the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 3G has been found to store location information."

"The attacks coming out of China are not only continuing, they are accelerating."

The ACLU calls this policy "a frightening and illegal invasion of privacy" and I can't say that I disagree.

"For all the Internet’s vaunted connectivity, the Egyptian government commanded powerful instruments of control: it owns the pipelines that carry information across the country and out into the world."

"There are other contradictions in the State Department’s agenda: it champions the free flow of information, except when it is in secret cables made public by WikiLeaks..."

"A spokesperson for YouTube declined to comment on the lifting of the ban, but pointed to Google’s Transparency report, which shows a jump in traffic to YouTube.com from Syria."

"... Mr. Mubarak fired his cabinet and appointed Omar Suleiman, his right-hand man and the country’s intelligence chief, as vice president."

"Data is among the most potent weapons of the 21st century."

“To check out the worm, you have to know the machines,” said an American expert on nuclear intelligence. “The reason the worm has been effective is that the Israelis tried it out.”

"Still, Internet companies chafe at what they say is the weaker protection under the law afforded online data."

“I have so many friends in the U.S., and there are so many things that I respect about it. This is not how America wants to present itself to the world.”

"Twitter has declined comment on the claim, saying only that its policy is to notify its users, where possible, of government requests for information."

"The future of law enforcement, national security and military operations will most likely rely on observant machines."

"We plan to create a so-called 'National Cyber-Defense Center' in 2011."

“They are so realistic that every time we show them, people try to grab them.”

"Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts."

"He (Mr. Ahmadinejad) also publicly acknowledged, apparently for the first time, that the country’s nuclear program had been disrupted recently by malicious computer software that attacked its centrifuges."

"The (Defense) Department has undertaken a series of actions to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future."

"So when Iran reported earlier this year that it was battling the Stuxnet worm, many experts immediately suspected that it was a state-sponsored cyberattack."

"What we are saying is that the hype surrounding the release is just that. There were a lot of classified documents released, but very few of them contained information that would truly shed new light... or damage national security."

"One solution is mandated encryption: the government would compel both corporations and individuals to install the most up-to-date protection tools."

"Officials involved in drafting the rules said the goal was to ensure a rapid response to a cyberthreat while balancing concerns that civil liberties might be at risk should the military take over such domestic operations."

"... the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act, telephone and broadband companies are supposed to design their services so that they can begin conducting surveillance of a target immediately after being presented with a court order."

"The need is great and there is no time to lose."

Esther

"He (President Obama) has said almost nothing about the other side of the cybereffort, billions of dollars spent on offensive capability, much of it based inside the National Security Agency."

"The brokers should be satisfied they know who is really operating these systems. The sub-custodian chain can bury the identity of high-frequency traders in Eastern Europe and elsewhere who raise serious regulatory concerns."

"Various efforts at cyberdefense by the military have been drawn under a single organization, the U.S. Cyber Command, which began operations in late May at Fort Meade"

Global Hawk Drone to Replace U2

“This is about democracy and the fact that when people have access to information, they can make wise choices. No one, even the current leaders of the opposition, can hijack the movement like the way the Islamists did in the 1979..."

China's Cyber Attacks by Proxy?

Google Partners with NSA: Matter of National Security or Privacy Violation?

“Malicious cyberactivity is occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication,” he told the committee.

Cyber Pearl Harbor!

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