President Bush's CIA nominee Gen. Michael Hayden talks during his Senate confirmation hearing in Washington in May 2006.
Former CIA Director: Cyber Attack Game-Changers Comparable to Hiroshima -- US News and World Report
Michael Hayden says economic sanctions are only protection from online threats.
Economic action against China is one of the only ways the United States can quell the growing rate of state-sponsored cyber attacks, America's former top spy says, adding that the private sector is largely alone in planning in planning its own defenses. U.S. intelligence agencies already knew much of the content of a report that pinpointed the origin of thousands of attacks waged on international targets, including American firms, to a building in Shanghai, said Michael Hayden, a retired Air Force four-star general, while speaking at the George Washington University Tuesday. Almost every cyber attack from the Chinese has been espionage rather than destruction, he said. But the cyber realm has witnessed game-changing attacks that have shifted the nature of this war, Hayden said, including the Stuxnet worm, reportedly designed by the Americans and Israelis, to slow Iran's nuclear program.
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