DNI warns of physical impacts from cyber threats to critical infrastructure

By Rick Weber / May 11, 2017 at 1:30 PM
Foreign adversaries are using cyberspace to threaten physical harm to the nation's critical infrastructure -- from power plants to hospitals to transportation systems -- with increasingly sophisticated attacks that take advantage of emerging technologies and vulnerabilities from the Internet of Things, according to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats. "Cyber threats . . . pose an increasing risk to public health, safety, and prosperity as cyber technologies are integrated with critical infrastructure in key sectors," Coats said in his written...

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