Home computers can become unwitting parts of a robotic network, or botnet, that cyber thieves use to power scams. (Photo credit: ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Threats to cyber security
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The recession breeds more cyber threats as companies pare back security budgets and more turn to hacking for income, according to a tech research firm in Boston. Also, those who are concerned about cyber espionage and attacks coming into the U.S. from other countries hope an Obama administration will hold to its promise to work on the issue.
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James Lewis: Director and senior fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. By phone from Washington, DC.
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Jonathon Giffen: Assistant professor in Georgia Tech's College of Computing and a member of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center.
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