Intelligence chief offers dire warning on cyberattacks

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (left), and CIA Director John Brennan (right) testify during a hearing before the Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee.

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If he was trying to scare the hell out of his listeners about the current state of cybersecurity, consider the newest warning from the nation's top intelligence official a mission accomplished.
In stark testimony delivered today to Congress, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper described a fast-eroding economic and national security landscape that's being rapidly penetrated by foreign agents infiltrating the nation's computer networks. This was the first time Clapper has included cyberattacks in his yearly congressional report on security threats facing the nation -- the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community (PDF) -- and they top the list.

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