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Intelligence Community Expects Future Cyber Hacks Will Manipulate Data

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 10th, 2015

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Intelligence Community Expects Future Cyber Hacks Will Manipulate Data

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Hostile cyber operations in the future are likely to turn to data manipulation to compromise the integrity of information, moving beyond the current types of hacks that are frequently focused on theft and denial of service, the top United States intelligence official told a House panel on Thursday.“In the future I believe we’ll see more cyber operations that will change or manipulate electronic information to compromise its integrity,” James Clapper, director of national intelligence, told the House Intelligence Committee. “In…

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