Pentagon report underscores cyber risks

A Pentagon advisory panel's recently issued assessment on “strategic surprise” underscores the seriousness of cyber threats to critical infrastructure and urges the department to mitigate such risks.

“One of the most disruptive surprises could be a major cyber attack that changes the American way of life, such as a cyber attack on major U.S. infrastructure or a kinetic attack on transoceanic cables or major data centers,” states the unclassified Defense Science Board report, which is dated July but was...