Cyber threat growing at unprecedented rate, Intelligence chief says

The Director of National Intelligence, America's top intelligence official, has told lawmakers that malicious cyber activity is growing at an unprecedented rate, severely threatening the nation's public and private information infrastructure.

The reports to Congress conclude threats to the information networks of the United States come from nation-states, criminals and that terrorist groups have expressed a desire to use cyber means to target the United States.  READ MORE

Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair recently testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee to offer the Intelligence Community's assessment of threats to United States national security. Click here to read the Annual Threat Assessment/Statement for the Record for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Click here to read the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence version.

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