From: Emergency Management
More than half of the 200 cyberattacks reported in the first six months of 2013 to the DHS’ industrial control systems emergency response team targeted energy companies.
Collin Eaton, Houston Chronicle
(MCT) — The United States can only thwart China’s economic espionage if lawmakers require domestic intelligence agencies to share their secrets about the world’s most dangerous malware tools — and how to stop them —
with the private sector, a former National Security Agency director said Tuesday.
“If the Chinese are doing economic espionage to the point that it does strategic damage to this country, and we have the answer — the ability to block, mitigate or eliminate that threat — why aren’t we putting those two together?” former vice admiral Mike McConnell, who ran the NSA during the first Clinton administration, said during an oil and gas cybersecurity event in west Houston. “We’ve never done it before.”
At the American Petroleum Institute’s ninth annual Cybersecurity Conference & Expo, McConnell said security agencies such as the NSA have collected data on troves of state-sponsored malware. But they have never shared it with the industries threatened by the advance of malicious computer codes aimed at spying on U.S. companies and stealing secrets, like banking, oil and gas and telecommunications sectors.
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