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CIA to make sweeping changes, focus more on cyber ops: agency chief

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By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Central Intelligence Agency will make one of the biggest overhauls in its nearly 70-year history, aimed in part at sharpening its focus on cyber operations and incorporating digital innovations, CIA director John Brennan said. Brennan said he is creating new units within the CIA, called “mission centers,” intended to concentrate the agency's focus on specific challenges or geographic areas, such as weapons proliferation or Africa

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U.S. charges three in ring that stole one billion email addresses

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By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Jim Finkle WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) – Two Vietnamese citizens and a Canadian have been charged with running a massive cyberfraud ring that stole 1 billion email addresses, then sent spam offering knockoff software products, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday. The Justice Department described the hacking spree as “one of the largest” data breaches uncovered in U.S.

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Microsoft warns Windows PCs also vulnerable to ‘Freak’ attacks

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By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are vulnerable to attacks exploiting the recently uncovered “Freak” security vulnerability, which was initially believed to only threaten mobile devices and Mac computers, Microsoft Corp warned. News of the vulnerability surfaced on Tuesday when a group of nine security experts disclosed that ubiquitous Internet encryption technology could make devices running Apple Inc's iOS and Mac operating systems, along with Google Inc's Android browser vulnerable to cyber attacks