{"id":2062,"date":"2010-02-07T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T22:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T17:41:37","slug":"cyberattacks-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/cyberattacks-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattacks Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cyberattacks<\/a>Director of national intelligence<\/a> Dennis C. Blair<\/a>, told lawmakers on Tuesday (02\/03\/2010) the prospect of a major terrorist attack on America, was the \u201cprimary near-term security concern of the United States.\u201d\u00a0 The New York Times<\/em><\/a> reports<\/a> that Mr. Blair began his annual threat testimony before Congress<\/a> by saying that the threat of crippling cyberattacks on telecommunications and other computer networks was growing. America\u2019s top intelligence official told Congress that an increasingly sophisticated group of enemies had \u201cseverely threatened\u201d the sometimes fragile systems undergirding the country\u2019s information infrastructure. \u201cMalicious cyberactivity is occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication,\u201d he told the committee.<\/p>\n

He said that the surge in cyberattacks, including the penetration of Google<\/a>\u2019s servers from inside China<\/a>, was a \u201cwake-up call\u201d for those who dismissed the threat of computer warfare. \u201cSensitive information<\/a> is stolen daily from both government and private-sector networks, undermining confidence in our information systems, and in the very information these systems were intended to convey,\u201d Mr. Blair said The NYT says Mr. Blair’s emphasis on the threat points up the growing concerns among American intelligence officials about the potentially devastating results of a coordinated attack on the nation\u2019s technology apparatus, sometimes called a \u201ccyber-Pearl Harbor<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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