By Dark Reading
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Tom Kellermann, one of the commissioners who will sit on a special panel at Black Hat in Las Vegas next week, says the bottom line is that the U.S. is in a Cold War -- cold cyber war, that is -- with at least two nations, and that over 100 different countries have dedicated cyber attack groups. “The reality is that our command and control and SCADA systems can now be directly impacted,” says Kellermann, who is also vice president of security awareness at Core Security Technologies.
But this isn’t just a national security threat issue, he says. “This is an international and economic issue. There is an institutionalization of the threat in developing countries, much like there was with the drug cartels in the 1970s and 1980s.”
“We are losing this war,” he says.
Source: Dark Reading
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