Obama to beef up IT security with cyber czar

US President Barack Obama last night announced he will appoint a cyber czar to manage attempts to repel mounting criminal and espionage attacks on government and private virtual world computer networks.

“It is the great irony of our information age — the very technologies that empower us to create and to build, also empower those who would seek to disrupt and destroy,” Obama said.

“This cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation,” Obama added, saying his new coordinator for cyber security would become a member of his national security staff.