Cyberattacks a top national security concern, GOP candidates say

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222135/Cyberattacks_a_top_national_security_concern_GOP_candidates_say

By Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld
November 23, 2011

Three Republican presidential candidates at Tuesday's CNN-sponsored GOP 
debate said that cyberattacks pose an emerging national security threat 
to the United States.

In closing comments during the debate, GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich, the 
former Speaker of the House, said that he views cyberattacks as one of 
three major security threats the U.S. is currently unprepared to deal 
with.

Prior to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 -- and even today -- the biggest 
threat to the U.S is the use of a weapon of mass destruction in an 
American city, Gingrich said. "The second is an electromagnetic pulse 
attack, which would literally destroy the country's capacity to 
function," and the third is a cyberattack.

Herman Cain noted that as a former ballistics analyst and computer 
scientist, he also sees cyberattacks as a national security threat. 
"That's something that we do not talk enough about, and I happen to 
believe that that is a national security area that we do need to be 
concerned about."

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