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The Central Intelligence Agency will begin recalling furloughed civilian workers needed to carry out the spy agency’s core missions today, according to CIA Director John Brennan. He also remarked that keeping staffing at its current dramatically reduced level “would pose a threat to the safety of human life and the protection of property.”

Visitors to the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, will be able to access the Internet faster and in more places than any previous Olympics, all for free to guests. However Russia’s FSB security service is reportedly installing a sweeping and invasive surveillance service to ensure that they will be able to intercept, read and even filter every digital communication passing through the city’s telephone and Internet networks during the game, leading to many security experts suggesting that visitors leave their devices at home.

The cost, frequency and time to resolve cyberattacks continue to rise for the fourth consecutive year, says a report by the Ponemon Institute.

Tools for monitoring Americans online are increasingly accessible and affordable to authorities, especially as people continue to post publicly on social media.

After Iowa permits legally blind people to buy and carry firearms in public, the debate over gun control legislation is back in the public forum, according to CNN.

Adobe Systems said that hackers had accessed personal data for nearly 3 million of its customers.

Villanova University announced it is considering adding a full-service police force to its campus, along with the possibility of arming its officers, UPI.com reports.

Federal authorities have shut down what they called the “most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today.”

U.S. securities regulators have awarded a record $14 million to a whistleblower who helped enforcement lawyers with an investigation to recover "substantial" investor funds.