Funding bill boosts cybersecurity spending

Cybersecurity spending would mostly increase under the nearly $1.1 trillion spending package lawmakers agreed to. Passage of the larger bill, called the “cromnibus,” would fund cybersecurity at consistent or increased levels through fiscal 2015. "The cyber dollars keep going up, which is appropriate,” said Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). The FBI would get $8.3 billion, $81 million above 2014 level. Cybersecurity funding for the Department of Justice would be kept steady at 2014 levels -- $722 million.