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–Second Congressional Hearing Highlights Federal Cyber Security Failure
(April 26, 2007)
Several of the nation's most respected cyber security experts on
Wednesday told the Homeland Security Committee's Emerging Threats and
Cyber Security Subcommittee that the US is unprepared to defend its systems or recover from a broad-based cyber attack. "Foreign intelligence agencies must weep with joy when they contemplate U.S.
government networks," said James Lewis, director of the technology and public policy program at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, who went on to describe "an unparalleled looting of U.S.
government databases."
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