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• Revamping your insider threat program

  Companies including MITRE are looking at privileged access and how to better lock it down -- without stopping employees from doing their jobs.

• Are Social Media Giants Betraying Your Trust?

  The leading social media companies are outraged over NSA surveillance, but would that spying even be possible if Facebook, Google and Twitter weren't collecting data and selling it to online marketers? Social media companies unintentionally opened new windows for spies to creep into our lives, and their claims of innocence are insincere.

• Obama in awkward spot after privacy board calls NSA snooping illegal

  A report Thursday by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board calling the NSA's bulk phone records collection program illegal and mostly useless puts the Obama Administration in an awkward spot.

• Thanks to the NSA, quantum computing may some day be in the cloud

  The NSA is spending some $80 million in basic research on quantum computing, money that may ultimately help commercialize quantum computing for the private sector.

• Perspective: Curbing data use is key to reining in NSA

  Any effort to rein in the National Security Agency after its widespread spy activities were revealed in leaked documents must focus on more than simply limiting what personal data can be collected.

• Fear of NSA snooping could hurt U.S. cloud vendors

  Edward Snowden's revelations about the U.S. government's data collection program could cause U.S. providers of cloud-based services to lose 10% to 20% of the foreign market to overseas rivals.

• Senators Push to Curb NSA's FISA Authorities

  Members of Judiciary Committee express concern over broad-ranging, secretive authorities under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, push for bill to strengthen oversight, transparency.

• NSA whistleblower likely had easy access to classified data

  A defiant Edward Snowden resurfaced in Hong Kong today vowing to fight any U.S. efforts to extradite him on charges that he leaked classified documents describing two secret government data collection programs.

• After Stuxnet: The new rules of cyberwar

  Three years ago, when electric grid operators were starting to talk about the need to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, few utilities had even hired a chief information security officer.