WASHINGTON — A new White House executive order would direct U.S. spy agencies to share the latest intelligence about cyberthreats with companies operating electric grids, water plants, railroads and other vital industries to help protect them from electronic attacks, according ...

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LONDON — Iran and other Middle East countries have been hit with a cunning computer virus that can eavesdrop on computer users and their co-workers and filch information from nearby cellphones, cybersecurity experts said Tuesday. And suspicion immediately fell on ...

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Grand Prix deal gets OK Baltimore’s Board of Estimates voted 3-2 Wednesday to approve a contract with Downforce Racing LLC for the right to run the Baltimore Grand Prix for the next five years. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, City Solicitor George A. ...

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WASHINGTON — Cybersecurity experts are urging senators to close loopholes in legislation to give the government more power to force critical industries to make their computer networks more secure. Two experts are saying the bill could allow many companies to ...

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At the inaugural edition of a conference on issues in electronic warfare, security and programming in Baltimore, speakers in the public and private sectors highlighted the region’s outsized role in the burgeoning “cyber” industry. Larry Cox, general manager at McLean, ...

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COLLEGE PARK — The University of Maryland will hold a cybersecurity seminar next month made possible by a sponsorship from Google. The university announced Tuesday that the series will begin with a talk by Vint Cerf, one of the Internet’s ...

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Northrop Grumman Corp. and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County are teaming up to create a business incubator housing companies developing new technologies to combat cyber threats. The defense contracting giant and UMBC will launch the Northrop Grumman Cync Program, ...

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Government initiatives like cybersecurity could put Maryland in position to weather what industry leaders say may be another bleak economic year in 2011. Economic leaders said at the Greater Baltimore Committee’s annual economic outlook conference Wednesday that the country is ...

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