http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2014/10/house-intel-chief-wants-increase-cyber-attacks-against-russia/95675/
By Patrick Tucker
defenseone.com
October 2, 2014
The United States should be conducting more disruptive cyber attacks
against nations like Russia, according to Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.,
chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
“I don’t think we are using all of our cyber-capability to disrupt” actors
in Russia targeting U.S. interests, he said at The Washington Post’s
cybersecurity summit on Thursday.
Rogers cited attacks out of Russia on the U.S. financial sector,
specifically against JP Morgan Chase in August, as an example of nation
states targeting U.S. companies and financial interests. The FBI is
currently investigating whether or not the attacks were a response to the
financial sanctions that the United States placed on Russia in March.
He didn’t directly implicate Putin’s government in the attack on JP Morgan
Chase, but he called the attempted breaches a “decision [made] on the
basis of sanctions,” and asked whether the intent was “to monitor
transactions or go in destroy enough data to cause harm to transactions?”
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