U.S. Lawmakers Warn of Security Threats From Cyberattacks

The top two lawmakers on the U.S. House committee dealing with intelligence matters warned that cyberattacks are posing increasing risks to U.S. economic and national security.

“We have attacks right now,” Representative Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said yesterday on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “Wall Street has been attacked. We have the capability of other countries, including Iran, for destructive attacks, to knock out our grid system, to attack some of our banks. We have got to stop this.”