Cyber Attacks Quotes

• The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

  Leon Panetta

  Next, Pearls, Harbors

  "CIA Director Leon Panetta Warns of Possible Cyber-Pearl Harbor" by Jason Ryan, abcnews.go.com. February 11, 2011.

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• The bare bones tools for a cyber-attack are to identify a vulnerability in the system you want to gain access to or you want to subvert or you want to deny, destroy, or degrade, and then to exploit it, which means to send codes, deliver code to that system somehow and get that code to that vulnerability, to that crack in their wall, jam it in there, and then have it execute.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Mean, Cracks

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• I think the public still isn't aware of the frequency with which the cyber-attacks, as they're being called in the press, are being used by governments around the world, not just the US.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Government, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think we have started accelerating over the past years. It's a modernization of NATO. It's at air, it's at sea, it's undersea, it's in cyber. Estonia in 2007, hit by Russian cyber-attacks. So what you see there with those exercises are critical.

  Michael Leiter

  Exercise, Past, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Cyber attacks from foreign governments, especially China, Russia, North Korea along with non-state terrorist actors and organized criminal groups constitute one of our most critical national security concerns. They're leaning everything about us and we don't have - wanna have any servers in the basements, by the way folks.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Government, Korea

  Source: time.com

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• The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any other nation out there. And when there's such a low barrier to entering the domain of cyber-attacks we're starting a fight that we can't win.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Winning, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and similar sort of heavy infrastructure, critical infrastructure areas. And they could be hit, as long as they're network connected, as long as they have some kind of systems that interact with them that could be manipulated from internet connection.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Nsa, Long, People

  "President Obama's speech on NSA surveillance reforms - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war cool. As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

  Noah Feldman

  War, Tools, Matter

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• Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.

  Preet Bharara

  Law, Enforcement, Victim

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• People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.'

  Dutch Ruppersberger

  Night, Mass Destruction, People

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• What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.

  Benjamin Carson

  Dirty, What If, Would Be

  "We Are Live-Blogging the GOP Debate in South Carolina" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Although cyber attacks have caused billions of dollars in damage and affected the lives of millions, few if any can be characterised as acts of terrorism.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Damage, Dollars, Terrorism

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• In terms of my conversations with [Vladimir] Putin, these are conversations that took place before the election. As I indicated, there has been very clear proof that they have engaged in cyber attacks. This isn't new. It's not unique to Russia. There are a number of states where we've seen low-level cyber attacks and industrial espionage and, you know, other behavior that we think should be out of bounds.

  Barack Obama

  Unique, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: time.com

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• Increasingly, we are seeing cyber attacks coming from states, organs of states. The most recent and troubling of these has been Russia.

  Hillary Clinton

  Russia, States, Organs

  "2016 Presidential Debates", TV Mini-Series (2016– ). "Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. 2016.

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• There's no doubt now that Russia has used cyber attacks against all kinds of organizations in America, and I am deeply concerned about this.

  Hillary Clinton

  Russia, Organization, America

  "Presidential debate: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's first clash - full transcript". www.independent.co.uk. September 27, 2016.

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• I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It's not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government. And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They've seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.

  Adam Schiff

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It ends a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. oil. It's changed - it's included in its cyber-security legislation - that says to private companies, hey, if you share with us your data on your cyber-attacks, your potential cyber-attacks, we'll give you liability protection. And they authorized a health care program for 9/11 responders for 75 years to cover the length of their lifespans.

  Susan Davis

  Oil, Years, Data

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". Interview with Robert Siegel, wuwm.com. December 21, 2015.

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• I have done business in China for 25 years, so I know that in order to get China to cooperate with us, we must first actually retaliate against their cyber-attacks so they know we're serious. We have to push back on their desire to control the trade route through the South China Sea through which flows $5 trillion worth of goods and services every year.

  Carly Fiorina

  Order, Years, Sea

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this is a global problem. We can't just fix it in the United States, because there are other countries that don't follow U.S. laws. We have to create international standards that say that cyber attacks should only ever occur when it is absolutely necessary.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Law, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

  William J. Clinton

  America, People, Effort

  "Clinton Warns Against Biological, Computer Attacks", www.cnn.com. May 22, 1998.

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