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Obama Convenes Stanford Summit on 'Evil Layer Cake' of Cyberthreats

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One way or another, we're all online, right? Googling, updating our status, banking, uploading photos and videos. And using our debit cards to buy just about anything. But the Internet has turned into a pretty rough neighborhood, and as we’ve seen in a steady stream of media reports, the bad guys are out there, hacking into computer systems as often as they can. This risk of getting hacked and what to do about it was why President Obama came to Stanford University Friday, to convene a White House summit on cybersecurity.

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