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Obama Increases Sanctions Authority for Cyber Crimes

President Barack Obama gave the Treasury Department, in consultation with the Attorney General and Secretary of State, wide-ranging authority to sanction individuals who engaged in cyber threats to U.S. infrastructure and trade secrets, as part of an April 1 executive…

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order (here). The order “augments” the U.S. ability to combat those and other “malicious” activities, the White House said in a fact sheet (here).