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Panetta Warns Of Cyber Threats As He Readies To Leave Office

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As he winds down his tenure at the helm of the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is warning that cyber-attacks constitute one of the “great threats” facing the United States and urged Congress to advance legislation to address the danger. “Cyber is now at a point where the technology is there to cripple a country, to take down our power grid system, to take down our government system, take down our financial system and literally paralyze the country,” Panetta said.…

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