
The head of the National Security Agency revealed to a Congressional panel that China and “probably one or two other” countries have the ability to shut down the nation’s power grid and other critical infrastructures through cyberwarfare.
Admiral Michael Rogers, who is also the head of the U.S. Cyber Command, said that U.S. intelligence has detected malware from China and elsewhere on computer systems within the U.S. that affect the daily lives of every American.
“It enables you to shut down very segmented, very tailored parts of our infrastructure that forestall the ability to provide that service to us as citizens,” Rogers said during his review with the House Intelligence Committee.
Rogers sees these attacks as part of “coming trends” in which hostile nations and other actors exploit vulnerabilities in U.S. cyber systems. Continue reading →