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"We shouldn't wait until there is a 9/11 in the cyber world. There are things we can and should be doing right now that, if not prevent, would mitigate the extent of damage," said U.S Secretary of Homeland Security Chief Napolitano, speaking at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington and referring to the September 11, 2001, attacks.
"The clarion call is here and we need to be dealing with this very urgently," said Napolitano. "Attacks are coming all the time. They are coming from different sources, they take different forms. But they are increasing in seriousness and sophistication."
"The cyberthreat facing the nation has finally been brought to public attention," says James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington national-security think tank. "Everyone knows it's a problem. It has moved out of the geek world, and that's a good thing. But it's led to more confusion than clarity. So now we're developing the skills to talk about it – and it's taking longer than I thought it would."
"Like anything else in America, there's a large, noisy debate driven by business interests and hucksterism – people shouting about cyberattacks," Lewis says. "But the situation is clearly serious. Our vulnerabilities are great. I recall our first CSIS meeting on cybersecurity in 2001. At that time, we agreed that if nothing significant was done to change things in a decade, we'd be in real trouble. Well, here we are."
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An eventual full-scale cyberattack on the U.S. by a terrorist
organization is "a certitude," a former senior intelligence official
told Fox News, and "cyberterrorists" already are making criminal use of
the technology to steal money and move it around to finance their
operations.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/08/us-faces-increasing-threat-cyberattacks-by-terrorists-including-on-battlefield/
"It's clear we have enemies who'd love to [attack US critical infrastructure], especially if they could escape blame for doing so," says Mr. Baker, the former NSA cyber expert. "It may not happen soon. But we would be crazy to assume it will never happen."
"We shouldn't wait until there is a 9/11 in the cyber world. There are things we can and should be doing right now that, if not prevent, would mitigate the extent of damage," said U.S Secretary of Homeland Security Chief Napolitano, speaking at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington and referring to the September 11, 2001, attacks.
"The clarion call is here and we need to be dealing with this very urgently," said Napolitano. "Attacks are coming all the time. They are coming from different sources, they take different forms. But they are increasing in seriousness and sophistication."
(Reporting by Deborah Charles; Editing by Xavier Briand)
"Like anything else in America, there's a large, noisy debate driven by business interests and hucksterism – people shouting about cyberattacks," Lewis says. "But the situation is clearly serious. Our vulnerabilities are great. I recall our first CSIS meeting on cybersecurity in 2001. At that time, we agreed that if nothing significant was done to change things in a decade, we'd be in real trouble. Well, here we are."
http://news.yahoo.com/cyber-security-2013-vulnerable-attack-us-now-133056755.html
An eventual full-scale cyberattack on the U.S. by a terrorist
organization is "a certitude," a former senior intelligence official
told Fox News, and "cyberterrorists" already are making criminal use of
the technology to steal money and move it around to finance their
operations.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/08/us-faces-increasing-threat-cyberattacks-by-terrorists-including-on-battlefield/
"It's clear we have enemies who'd love to [attack US critical infrastructure], especially if they could escape blame for doing so," says Mr. Baker, the former NSA cyber expert. "It may not happen soon. But we would be crazy to assume it will never happen."
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