http://fcw.com/articles/2009/02/13/blair-cyber.aspx By Ben Bain FCW.com Feb 13, 2009 This year's annual threat assessment from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) found that malicious cyber activity grew more sophisticated, targeted and serious during the past year and that trend is expected to continue during the next year. The assessment also said the intelligence community expects disruptive cyber activities to be part of future political or military conflicts. The unclassified findings of the assessment were presented by DNI Dennis Blair before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee Feb. 12. Blair's predecessor, Mike McConnell, presented cited a similar trend regarding cyber threats in the 2008 annual report. The release of this year's assessment came days after the Obama administration said it will conduct a full-scale review of the government's cybersecurity efforts. That review will include a look at the multiyear, multibillion-dollar Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) that started in January 2008. The report said threats to the information networks of the United States come from nation-states, criminals and terrorist groups have expressed a desire to use cyber means to target the United States. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books & More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Tue Feb 17 2009 - 02:27:12 PST
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