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Planning a Smarter U.S. Defense Against Cyber-Villains: View
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The threats from cyberspace grow more powerful and pernicious. Companies from Sony Corp. to Google Inc. to Lockheed Martin Corp. have admitted startling security lapses. The International Monetary Fund last month suffered a “very major” breach leading to the loss of sensitive data. Congress and executive branch agencies faced almost 2 billion cyber-attacks a month last year.
Who or what is behind these attacks -- belligerent nation states, criminal gangs, alienated teenagers -- is rarely clear, but the message of their mayhem is: Our vast digital infrastructure, which grows more critical to our civilization each passing day, is much less safe than we thought.