Information Security News: Cyber Threat Looms

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[Change the name, date and agency and this reads like every
other article since Winn Schwartau coined the term
"electronic Pearl Harbor" in 1991. -- WK]


By Bill Gertz
FreeBeacon.com
January 24, 2013

The United States is facing a catastrophic cyber attack by nations or 
non-state groups that could cripple the country’s economy, a former 
high-ranking U.S. intelligence official said on Thursday.
Retired Vice Adm. Mike McConnell, who headed both the National Security 
Agency (NSA) and served as director of national intelligence, said in a 
speech that one example of a devastating cyber attack would be the 
crippling of the U.S. economy through cyber attacks on banks and 
financial institutions.
“We have a national problem and it is significant. The next big issue 
will be a cyber 9/11,” McConnell said during a luncheon speech to a 
meeting of the American Bar Association standing committee on law and 
national security.
“I’ve been sounding the alarm, and I’ve been doing this now for 20 
years,” he said. “We are going to have a cyber event that is 
catastrophic.”
McConnell, a 46-year veteran of the military and intelligence community 
who still consults for the NSA, also said Chinese and other cyber 
espionage pose strategic threats to U.S. security. He headed the NSA 
from 1992 to 1996 and was DNI from 2007 to 2009.
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