5 things to know about Obama's new cybersecurity proposals

Hacking and cybersecurity really went mainstream in 2014, grabbing headlines almost every week.

In the year of the famous Internet vulnerability Heartbleed, the massive data breaches of Home Depot and J.P. Morgan, and the hack on Sony Pictures, President Barack Obama wants the government to get more involved in improving cybersecurity

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The president mentioned cybersecurity only in passing during his State of the Union address, but last week he released a series of proposals in the lead-up to the speech. Read more...

1. Obama wants companies to share more information about cyberattacks

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