Cyber 'mass shooter' poses future threat to computer security, ex-intel official says

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/3/cyber-mass-shooter-poses-future-threat-computer-se/

By Shaun Waterman
The Washington Times
October 3, 2013

The fastest-growing cyber threat is from a kind of digital mass shooter, a 
deranged or outraged hacker able to obtain cyberweapons currently available 
only to nation-states and organized crime, a former senior U.S. intelligence 
official said Thursday.

“They’re just mad, they’re mad at the world,” said retired Air Force Gen. 
Michael Hayden. “They may have demands that you or I cannot understand.”

Mr. Hayden warned that within five years hackers “will acquire the 
[cyberattack] capabilities that we now associate with criminal gangs or 
nation states,” such as being able to conduct online sabotage of 
industrial control systems that run power plants, factories and utilities.

U.S. intelligence chiefs have fretted publicly about the vulnerability to 
such attacks on the nation’s industries, financial systems and 
communication networks, saying they could cause casualties and mass 
dislocation.

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