The nation's top cyberspace official Friday called on the next president to boost the government's computer security to prevent a "digital Pearl Harbor." "What this presidential election year showed is that statistically improbable events can occur," Richard Clarke of the . . .
The nation's top cyberspace official Friday called on the next president to boost the government's computer security to prevent a "digital Pearl Harbor." "What this presidential election year showed is that statistically improbable events can occur," Richard Clarke of the National Security Council said at a Microsoft-organized conference. "It may be improbable that cyberspace can be seriously disrupted, it may be improbable that a war in cyberspace can occur, but it could happen."

On coming to office, the next president will find that several nations have created information-warfare units, Clarke said.

"These organizations are creating technology to bring down computer networks," he said. "Some are doing reconnaissance today on our networks, mapping them."

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