Posted on 09/11/2015 5:56:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
US National Intelligence Director James Clapper on Thursday warned that America must be ready for a “large, Armageddon-scale” cyber attack, in remarks made at an annual conference of members of the US intelligence community in Washington DC.
“Cyber threats to US national and economic security are increasing in frequency, scale, sophistication and the severity of impact,” Clapper warned. “Although we must be prepared for a large, Armageddon-scale strike that would debilitate the entire US infrastructure, it’s not our belief that that’s the most likely scenario.” […]
In a sign of the rising concern over the trend of cyber warfare in the private sector as well, Microsoft just this Tuesday announced its purchase of an Israeli cybersecurity startup named Adallom.
Clapper also spoke on Thursday about the crisis of Syrian refugees fleeing into Europe from the internecine civil war ravaging their country. …
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How about we try hacking some of the aholes that are hacking us? Do we ever do that ? Are these communists so much more adept at this than us? Where do they get their education in this? Can’t we get educated there,are our institutions of higher learning so Incompetent?
Or is this all bullcrap
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