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A bill allowing access to private web data on suspicion of a cyber threat passes the US House of Representatives, despite a White House veto threat.

Former US national security officials from the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations are pushing the Senate for passage of comprehensive cybersecurity legislation.

Botnets are the next battleground for US cyber security tsar Howard Schmidt.

Speaking at the McAfee Public Sector summit last week, White House cyber security co-ordinator Schmidt said there had been "a lot of discussion about botnets" in trying to identify how many are out there, what they are doing, what they could do and what the impact could be.

He then said that he had asked his office to engage in a private-public partnership to enhance the nation's cyber security by fighting against botnets.