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NSA deputy director warns of increasing cyber attacks and calls for nations to draw red lines

on Oct 27, 2015 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

The deputy director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), Richard Ledgett, has warned that nation-state cyber attacks will become more frequent as the world becomes more connected.

Ledgett told the BBC that everyone connected to the internet was “vulnerable to nation-state attackers” and said nations would need to agree upon red lines that should not be crossed.

The chief operating officer said that “the barrier to entry is going down… and as everybody in the world becomes more connected with computers and information systems, the vulnerabilities are going up”.

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Source: The Drum