Obama Forms Commission To Bolster US Cyber Security (engadget.com)

An anonymous reader writes: President Obama unveiled a commission of private, public and academic experts to bolster the US cyber security sector. The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will be co-chaired by former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano and Tom Donilon, the President's former national security adviser. Some other notable members include MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga, Microsoft Research VP Peter Lee, Uber's current (and Facebook's former) Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, Frontier Communications Executive Chairperson Maggie Wildrotter, and Annie Anton, chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. The specific goals of the commission are to: "Raise the level of cybersecurity in both the public and private sectors, deter, disrupt, and interfere with malicious cyber activity aimed at the U.S. or its allies and respond effectively to and recover from cyber incidents."

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[KGIII]

I thought it was broken into by a guy from Romania, he's either here in the US now or he's soon to be on the way here. There's a blurb about him in a short(ish) documentary called "Most Dangerous Town on the Internet." He's some Romanian dude and he broke into that and a few other things.

At least I'm pretty sure that's how the story goes and is how we initially found out about Mrs. Clinton's rogue email server. There was just an article a week or two ago (here on Slashdot) that indicated he was on his way to the United States, he's being/has been extradited to face charges on US soil for the crimes committed on US soil.

In the documentary, he laments being sentenced to five years. I can only imagine that he's going to be a whole lot more unhappy after he gets a federal sentence that is 4 to 10 times as long in a real federal penitentiary.