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Cybersecurity starts at home and in the office Washington: The Obama administration wants to convey clear and concise guidance about one of the biggest national security threats in homes and offices - the computer. The administration wants Americans to think before they click. Know who's on the other side of that instant message. What someone says or does in cyberspace stays in cyberspace - for many to see, steal and use against people and their government. The Internet, said former national intelligence director Michael McConnell, "is the soft underbelly" of the US today. Speaking recently at a new cybersecurity exhibit at the International Spy Museum in Washington, McConnell said the Internet has "introduced a level of vulnerability that is unprecedented." The Pentagon's computer systems are probed 360 million times a day, and one prominent power company has acknowledged that its networks see up to 70,000 scans a day, according to cybersecurity expert James Lewis. For the most part, those probes of government and critical infrastructure networks are benign. Many, said McConnell, are a nuisance and some are crimes. But the most dangerous are probes aimed at espionage or tampering with or destroying data. Back |
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