by Star Tribune – McClatchy-Tribune
Gordon Snow, assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, recently gave an update to a U.S. Senate subcommittee on the cyber threats facing the United States and the FBI’s efforts to protect government and private-sector computer networks against savvy cyber criminals. The frugality of modern journalism won’t let me tell you everything Snow had to say. So, in the words of the “Princess Bride’s” Inigo Montoya, “Let me sum up” with some key points: The number and sophistication of cyber attacks has increased dramatically over the past five years and is expected to keep growing. Given enough time, motivation and funding, a determined adversary likely will be able to penetrate any system that is accessible directly from the Internet, Snow said.
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