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DELIVERING CYBER CAMPAIGN CASH — Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is holding a fundraiser at the Black Hat hacker conference this week in Las Vegas, amid an intense focus on how hackers are affecting the 2016 campaign. For anywhere from $100 to $2,700, donors can mingle on Wednesday with Michael Sulmeyer, a former top Defense Department cyber official who now heads the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center Cyber Security project (identified as the Clinton Campaign’s cybersecurity working group coordinator); former Homeland Security Department official

Jake Braun (now CEO of Cambridge Global); and Black Hat founder Jeff Moss. Clinton’s cyber/tech platform has been greeted with a mix of praise and condemnation. — SOME READER-SELECTED CON HIGHLIGHTS: Readers shared with us some of their picks for best sessions at Black Hat and DEF CON this week, per MC’s request Monday. One of them: a session with FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny and FTC Chief Technologist Lorrie Cranor, where they’ll announce more specific guidance on research about making cyberspace safer for consumers. Another session asks the question, “Does the thought of nuclear war wiping out your data keep you up at night?” (Hat tip to Greg Norcie, staff technologist for the Center for Democracy and Technology, who is giving his own presentation For the full article click here 

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