Richard Burr

Russia has conducted a coordinated cyberattack on state election systems and hacked critical infrastructure. They have used social media to sow chaos and discord in our society. They have beaten and harassed U.S. diplomats and violated anti-proliferation treaties.

American Politician

Christian Slater

The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.

American Actor

Evgeny Morozov

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace.

Belarusian Writer

James Clapper

Although we must be prepared for a catastrophic large-scale strike, a cyber armageddon, the reality is that we have been living with a constant barrage of cyberattacks for some time. The trend, I believe, will continue.

American Public Servant

Jacky Rosen

The gender disparity in STEM is depriving our country of talented minds that could be inventing the next breakthrough technology, founding the next big startup or keeping our nation safe from cyberattacks.

Dmitri Alperovitch

What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.

Russian Businessman

William Barr

While encryption protects against cyberattacks, deploying it in warrant-proof form jeopardizes public safety more generally.

Jack Keane

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

American General

Jared Cohen

The big unknown is, at what point is a cyberattack so significant that it warrants a physical-world response.

American Businessman

Valerie Plame

To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.

American Writer

Cyberattacks threaten the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of digital data.

Security Threat

Cyberattacks can be considered a form of modern warfare, targeting states’ digital infrastructure.

Modern Warfare

Cyberattacks exploit weaknesses in software and human behavior to gain unauthorized access.

Online Vulnerabilities

 and there will be barriers to break, obstacles to overcome. We will need to invest in the new technologies. We will need to adapt organizations and managerial practices. We will need a robust cybersecurity approach that protects sensitive information and intellectual property and safeguards critical infrastructure from cyberattacks.

Marco Annunziata:...

 and in fact a significant number of them, the ones who are assigned oversight responsibility, did have the ability to do that. And you've actually had the chairs of those committees say that in public. Now, you mentioned the threat of cyberattacks, and I don't think anyone in this room would disagree that that is a huge concern,

Richard Ledgett: The NSA...

 and software got in there that causes the centrifuges, in that case, to actually destroy themselves. Now that same kind of software could destroy an oil refinery or a pharmaceutical factory or a semiconductor plant. And so there's a lot of -- I'm sure you've read a lot in papers, about worries about cyberattacks

Danny Hillis: The...

 Instead, what we have done in the U.S. and the West is welcome China into the global economy, and on top of that, welcome them into the World Trade Organization. The U.S. and the West say China cheats on the question of intellectual property rights, and through cyberattacks on U.S. and global firms.

Are China and the US...

 latex gloves when she was on the computer, and there would be no harm whatsoever in that. I'm going to get back to this notion of being able to get a virus from your computer, in a serious way. What I'm going to talk to you about today are some hacks, some real world cyberattacks that people

Avi Rubin: All your...

 to this notion of being able to get a virus from your computer in a serious what I'm going to talk to you about today are some hacks some real-world cyberattacks that people in my community the academic research community have performed which I don't think most

All your devices can be...

 that cyberattacks could be as powerful as weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, the Americans have decided to spend over 30 billion dollars in the next five years to build up their cyberwar capabilities. And across the world today, we see

Guy-Philippe Goldstein:...

 of Internet dwellers. It turns out, the Internet doesn't like it when you try to remove things from it, and it will react with cyberattacks and elaborate pranks and with a series of organized protests all around the world,

Hackers: the internet's...

 without worrying about people monitoring those communications or subverting them for their own ends. And do those same decisions also potentially open America up to cyberattacks from other sources?

How we take back the...

 the current blackout is the result of a cyberattack