Cybersecurity a Serious Challenge, Obama Says

Calling protection of government and private computer and communications networks "one of the most serious... security challenges we face," President Obama said he would appoint a White House advisor to oversee a national effort to improve cyber-security throughout the U.S. The president noted that millions of Americans already had been victimized by computer tampering and that his own campaign computers had been breached by hackers between August and October.

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