The administration's top security coordinator Richard Clarke once warned that the United States could face an "electronic Pearl Harbor" if the nation's electronic defenses were not strengthened. He painted an equally gloomy picture earlier this week. The increasing sophistication of electronic . . .
The administration's top security coordinator Richard Clarke once warned that the United States could face an "electronic Pearl Harbor" if the nation's electronic defenses were not strengthened. He painted an equally gloomy picture earlier this week. The increasing sophistication of electronic attackers, coupled with growing U.S. reliance on Web-based systems has created a very dangerous environment, Clarke said at the Global Internet Project, a gathering of high-tech executives. Clarke is the Bush Administration's national coordinator for security, infrastructure Protection, and counter-terrorism.

"The malicious actors we are looking at today are nation-states," Clarke said. Sophisticated enemy attackers pose a far more dire threat to U.S. systems than do the "14-year-old" hackers who deface Web sites, Clarke said.

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