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Last week federal prosecutors in the city charged hackers with stealing $3.5 million from an energy company and almost taking $1 million from a school district.

by Andrew Conte, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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“A lot of the trade secrets are highly, highly secured, highly guarded. There’s a lot of security practices around them,” said Chris Geary, who heads one of two cyberinvestigations teams at the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office. “But there’s a lot of other fringe information that provides that same economic advantage to competitors.”

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But while intruders stealthily plot ways of getting inside, computer security experts in Pittsburgh work just as secretly behind the scenes to block the attackers. In fact, Pittsburgh has gained a national reputation as a major hub for trying to prevent computer threats.

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