By Olga Kharif - Bloomberg.com

A year ago, James Robinson played a trick on about 600 salespeople at a company where you wouldn’t expect the employees to be easily fooled.

Staffers at Websense Inc. got a generic-looking e-mail that encouraged them to click on a link to learn which product they could sell to earn a bigger bonus. The link led to an unfamiliar website that asked for their user names and passwords.

“What came back to us was crazy, it was in the 60 to 70 percentile — people were clicking on the link,” said Robinson, security architecture and strategy officer at the San Diego-based company. Of those who clicked, 80 percent proceeded to obediently type in their log-in credentials, which is the kind of information that could allow a hacker to break into a corporate network and steal critical data.

Even more alarming? These folks sell cyber-security products for a living.

As businesses spend billions every year to shore up their cyber defenses against sophisticated hackers, many companies are realizing that relatively unsophisticated attacks can still be the biggest risk when they’re targeting what’s often the weakest link: the employees. Read more »

Reuters

Egyptian police fired tear gas on Tuesday at student supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi who were protesting at the university in the Nile Delta town of Mansoura, witnesses said.

Four people were hurt in clashes between the students, police and residents that erupted near the Mansoura University campus, according to security sources.

Witnesses said the rival groups threw stones at each other. The sound of birdshot fire was also heard but it was not clear from which side it came. Read more »

Reuters - BY JASON SUBLER AND KEVIN YAO

China’s ruling party pledged to let markets play a “decisive” role in allocating resources as it unveiled a reform agenda for the next decade on Tuesday, looking to overhaul the world’s second-largest economy to drive future growth. Read more »

The Hill - Rebecca Shabad

Darrell Issa has subpoenaed the Obama administration’s Chief Technology Officer Todd Park to testify before his committee next Wednesday on the ObamaCare rollout.

“Given your continued unwillingness to appear voluntarily next week, I am left with no choice but to compel your appearance. Please find attached to this letter a subpoena for your testimony before the Committee next Wednesday, November 13, 2013,” Issa wrote in a letter to Park late Friday evening. Read more »

(CNSNews.com) - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs the federal government’s major health-care programs as well as the Obamacare insurance exchange, spent $1,113,178,000,000 in fiscal 2013, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement for September, which was released last week.

That sets a record for the most money ever spent by a federal agency or department in a single year.

It also means CMS spent more in inflation-adjusted dollars than the entire federal government spent in 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the legislation creating the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Read more »