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U.S. and Russian experts turn up volume on cybersecurity alarms

September 27, 2012

U.S. and Russian experts turn up volume on cybersecurity alarms

By: Joseph Menn, Reuters

Uncontrolled security threats on the Internet could return much of the planet to an era without electricity or automated transportation, top U.S. and Russian experts said on Thursday.

Former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden warned that the United States had yet to resolve basic questions about how to police the Internet, let alone how to defend critical infrastructure such as electric generation plants.

And if recently discovered and government-sponsored intrusion software proliferates in the same way that viruses have in the past, "somewhere in 2020, maybe 2040, we'll get back to a romantic time - no power, no cars, no trains," said Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive officer of Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, the largest privately held security vendor.

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U.S. and Russian experts turn up volume on cybersecurity alarms

U.S. and Russian experts turn up volume on cybersecurity alarms
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