Germany's top criminal court reportedly ruled Wednesday that Internet users must secure their private wireless connections by password so unauthorized users can't illegally access their data.

And if they don't do it, they'll be fined $126 if those unauthorized users step in and take advantage of their un-secured WLAN connection, the Karlsruhe-based court said in its verdict.

According to the court ruling, 'Private users are obligated to check whether their wireless connection is adequately secured to the danger of unauthorized third parties abusing it to commit copyright violation."

However, the court did not say that users are responsible for the illegal content the third party downloads themselves. About 26 million homes in Germany have wireless Internet access, according to Bitkom, the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media.

In U.S. Internet security news, the Obama Administration spent yesterday at the Hilton in McLean, Va., attending multiple seminars at the "Cybersecurity Contracting and R&D Opportunities Summit." The event addressed growing threats and the resulting opportunities in contracting and R&D for cybersecurity.

So far, the Administration has made a series of investments across several agencies: The Department of Defense is building a huge, new $1.5 billion U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade in Maryland while The Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to hire 1,000 cybersecurity professionals over the next the years.

Still, cybersecurity threats continue: just this week, for instance, Treasury Department web sites were hacked in a major incident. The Defense Department network is hit with hundreds of thousands of probes a day.