Focus on cyber crime misses the real threat

Trade

19 July 2010

By Bill Roth

Thanks to tough economic times, the resulting hit on our wallets, and a generous dollop of fear-mongering by some opportunistic profiteers, we’ve all become myopically obsessed with cyber crime. This is not entirely a bad thing. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, everyone knows that technology has created unimaginable opportunity for resourceful crooks.

Trouble is, we’ve overlooked the bigger picture. A recent New York Times article reminded us of a conspicuously under-reported digital security threat: cyber terrorism.

Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, the

 

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