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• U.S. House panel seeks update on plans to upgrade White House fence

  22-12-2014 23:03
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top two members of a U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Monday they had written to Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson asking for a briefing on his agency's plans to enhance the fence around the White House. Republican Jason Chaffetz and Democrat Elijah Cummings, the ranking members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said in a statement that the request followed a recommendation last week by a review panel charged with l
  
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• Did U.S. Strike Back For Sony Hack? Massive North Korea Internet Outages Reported

  22-12-2014 22:26
  
  North Korea's already shaky Internet has gone fully dark, several media outlets are reporting today, citing experts and sources inside the country. The shutdown, if that's what it is, comes just days after President Barack Obama said the U.S. "will respond proportionally" to North Korea's cyber attack on Sony Pictures. The Associated Press reported today that the White House and the State Department declined to say whether the U.S. government was responsible for the�
  
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• North Korea experiencing severe Internet outages

  22-12-2014 21:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea experienced sweeping and progressively worse Internet outages extending into Monday, with one computer expert saying the country's online access is "totally down." The White House and the State Department declined to say whether the U.S. government was responsible.
  
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• How to punish North Korea? 'The Interview' inspires far-fetched ideas

  22-12-2014 20:59
  
  Perhaps the White House should hold a viewing of "The Interview." Or perhaps Hollywood should produce a blockbuster thriller film about "The Interview." Or perhaps the military should just drop tens of thousands of tablets preloaded with "The Interview" over North Korea. 
  
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• Secret Service needs to beef up IT security: report

  22-12-2014 20:36
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service refused to provide data on its computer security systems to the Department of Homeland Security in 2014, preventing it from being able to verify if it was complying with security policies, an inspector general's report said on Monday. The service, which has faced withering criticism after several security lapses including a White House breach in September, "refused to comply with mandated computer security policies," according to the report by the D
  
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• Veteran Essebsi wins Tunisia's first free presidential vote

  22-12-2014 17:48
  
  Veteran anti-Islamist politician Beji Caid Essebsi was declared the winner of Tunisia's first free presidential election on Monday, capping off the transition to democracy in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Essebsi, an 88-year-old former official in previous Tunisian regimes, took 55.68 percent of the vote to defeat incumbent Moncef Marzouki in Sunday's run-off, the electoral commission said. US President Barack Obama congratulated Essebsi and hailed the vote as "a vital step t
  
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• #PreMarket Primer: Monday, December 22: White House Struggles To Respond To Sony Hack

  22-12-2014 15:29
  
  The White House is struggling to find an appropriate response to the cyber attack and violent threats against Sony Corp (NYSE: SNE ), which were linked to the North Korean government. Republicans in Washington ...
  
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• North Korea threatens to 'blow up' White House

  22-12-2014 13:00
  
  Seoul, Dec 22 (IANS) North Korea has accused the US of conniving with the makers of the controversial film "The Interview" to "hurt the dignity" of the country's supreme leadership and threatened to "blow up" the White House.
  
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• North Korea Threatens To Target The White House

  22-12-2014 12:09
  
  The North Korean government has threatened to "stand in confrontation with the US in all war spaces" as the diplomatic row over a Sony film continues to escalate.
  
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• The story behind the oddest White House summit ever

  22-12-2014 12:02
  
  The secret meeting was brief at the White House, and it involved a U.S. President and a King, of sorts. And even today, it generates more interest at the National Archives, in terms of image requests, than the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
  
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• China condemns cyberattacks, but says no proof North Korea hacked Sony

  22-12-2014 10:35
  
  By Megha Rajagopalan and Steve Holland BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China said on Monday it opposed all forms of cyberattacks but there was no proof that North Korea was responsible for the hacking of Sony Pictures, as the United States has said. North Korea has denied it was to blame and has vowed to hit back against any U.S. retaliation, threatening the White House and the Pentagon. The hackers said they were incensed by a Sony comedy about a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Ki
  
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• China condemns cyberattacks, but says no proof N.Korea hacked Sony

  22-12-2014 10:34
  
  By Megha Rajagopalan and Steve Holland BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China said on Monday it opposed all forms of cyberattacks but there was no proof that North Korea was responsible for the hacking of Sony Pictures, as the United States has said. North Korea has denied it was to blame and has vowed to hit back against any U.S. retaliation, threatening the White House and the Pentagon. The hackers said they were incensed by a Sony comedy about a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Ki
  
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• N Korea threatens hack row strikes

  22-12-2014 05:46
  
  North Korea has threatened strikes against the White House, Pentagon and "the whole US mainland, that cesspool of terrorism", accusing Barack Obama of "recklessly" spreading rumours of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyber-attack on Sony Pictures.
  
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• Obama calls Philadelphia police commissioner after NYC police shootings

  22-12-2014 04:28
  
  By Julia Edwards HONOLULU (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama called Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey on Sunday to express his outrage over the recent killings of two New York City Police officers, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said. Obama recently named Ramsey co-chair of a task force to examine policing practices across the United States following a Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri for killing an unarmed black tee
  
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• Obama voices outrage over NYC police shootings to Philadelphia police commissioner

  22-12-2014 04:04
  
  HONOLULU (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama called Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey on Sunday to express his outrage over the recent killings of two New York City Police officers, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said. Obama recently named Ramsey co-chair of a task force to examine policing practices across the United States following a Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri for killing an unarmed black teenager. (Reporting
  
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• N. Korea threatens strikes on US amid hacking claims

  22-12-2014 02:57
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says President Barack Obama is "recklessly" spreading rumors of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyberattack of Sony Pictures and warns of strikes against the White House, Pentagon and "the whole U.S. mainland, that cesspool of terrorism."
  
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