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Not a fan of CISPA? Fear not. President Barack Obama isn’t either. A Wednesday e-mail released by the Office of Management and Budget made very clear that should the bill reach the president’s desk in its current form, "his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill."

China National Electronics Import-Export Corporation (CEIEC) has denied that its systems were breached. But the hacker known as Hardcore Charlie, a supporter of the Anonymous ideal, insisted that the data he gained access to was legitimate, so he made available another set of documents, totaling 400 megabytes. 

A ruling handed up this week in a US appeals court found staff who violate their organisation's user policies do not violate the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

David Kosal, a former manager at executive search firm Korn/Ferry, beat charges that he convinced three of his former co-workers to use their valid login credentials to access and download customer lists and then transfer them to him so he could start a competing company.