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From: Government Technology
FBI Director James Comey paints a guarded picture of the bureau’s war on cybercrime and its escalating battle on the encryption front.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cyberattacks are hitting U.S. businesses and governments in multiple ways, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is stepping up efforts to detect and deter the growing problem, said FBI Director James Comey.
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Speaking at the Symantec Government Symposium, Comey labeled today’s hackers and data thieves as increasingly sophisticated and often part of a multinational or foreign state supported effort to breach information and databases. “Many of these threats are from criminals with inside information harvested from social media,” he said.
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