Cybersecurity is slipping, a panel of experts last month told lawmakers at a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee. The biggest threat is cyberwarfare sponsored by foreign governments, said Lawrence K. Gershwin, the national intelligence officer for science and technology for . . .
Cybersecurity is slipping, a panel of experts last month told lawmakers at a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee. The biggest threat is cyberwarfare sponsored by foreign governments, said Lawrence K. Gershwin, the national intelligence officer for science and technology for the CIA's National Intelligence Council. Only nations have enough backing for "the future prospect of causing widespread, long-duration damage to critical U.S. infrastructures," he said.

The joint committee's ranking Senate Republican, Sen. Robert F. Bennett of Utah, said observers have missed the forest for the trees.

"The complex issues of cybersecurity and infrastructure protection are overshadowed by the attention paid to hacking exploits and Web site defacements," he said.

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