Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel aired his concerns during his confirmation hearing...
Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel aired his concerns during his confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the “very dangerous and real threat” of cyberwarfare. Hagel told the panel that if he’s confirmed he will put…
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a “high priority” on the issue of cybersecurity. Computer network vulnerability “represents as big a threat to the security of this country” as “any one specific threat,” he said. “It’s an insidious, quiet kind of a threat that we have never quite seen before. A cyberattack can paralyze a nation in a second. Not just a power grid or a banking system, but it can knock out satellites, it can take down computers on all of our carrier battleships, it can do tremendous damage to our national security apparatus.” Hagel bemoaned the Senate’s inability to advance cybersecurity legislation last session, lamenting the “pretty agonizing three months at the end of 2012” when the upper chamber twice failed to pass the Cybersecurity Act (S-3414). “I believe the Congress will come back at it in this new Congress. I think you must, and you know that,” he said.