Not content to wait on congress, President Obama signs cyber security executive order

February 12, 2013 8:32 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

While congress has yet to reach any sort of lasting solution regarding the nations growing cyber security problems, President Barack Obama has decidedly taken the first big step in an executive order signed earlier today.

Obama makes it harder for Iran and Syria to track dissidents on social networks

April 23, 2012 12:29 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Anyone who helps the governments of Iran and Syria obtain technology to track dissenters through social media will soon find their U.S. assets frozen, thanks to sanctions announced today by the White House.

President Barack Obama signed a new executive …