Admiral: Damage from cyber attack on U.S. infrastructure could outpace natural disaster

A future cyber attack on U.S. critical infrastructure has the potential to rapidly produce massive damage on a scale that outpaces any natural disaster on American soil, according to the head of the U.S. military command focused on homeland defense.

“We have a wealth of experience in responding to natural disasters in the homeland, but the unpredictable cascading impacts of a cyberspace attack have the potential to easily outpace those of a natural disaster,” Adm. William Gortney, commander of the...