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Hillary Clinton's State Department Steps Up Cybersecurity After WikiLeaks Crisis

The release of the WikiLeaks cables sent Hillary Clinton's team scrambling to do damage control. Dayo Olopade talks to State Dept. officials about their efforts to step up cybersecurity.

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The release of the WikiLeaks cables sent Hillary Clinton's team scrambling to do damage control. (Miguel Villagran / Getty Images)

Two days after what the Italian foreign minister called “the 9/11 of world diplomacy,” the State Department’s counteroffensive was in full swing. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had launched a frantic damage control operation, reaching out to world leaders whose feathers had been ruffled by public disclosure of American diplomats’...

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