House Intel Chief Wants To Increase Cyber Attacks Against Russia

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http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2014/10/house-intel-chief-wants-increase-cyber-attacks-against-russia/95675/

By Patrick Tucker
defenseone.com
October 2, 2014

The United States should be conducting more disruptive cyber attacks 
against nations like Russia, according to Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., 
chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

“I don’t think we are using all of our cyber-capability to disrupt” actors 
in Russia targeting U.S. interests, he said at The Washington Post’s 
cybersecurity summit on Thursday.

Rogers cited attacks out of Russia on the U.S. financial sector, 
specifically against JP Morgan Chase in August, as an example of nation 
states targeting U.S. companies and financial interests. The FBI is 
currently investigating whether or not the attacks were a response to the 
financial sanctions that the United States placed on Russia in March.

He didn’t directly implicate Putin’s government in the attack on JP Morgan 
Chase, but he called the attempted breaches a “decision [made] on the 
basis of sanctions,” and asked whether the intent was “to monitor 
transactions or go in destroy enough data to cause harm to transactions?”

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