Smart leaders said on Tuesday for the first time the top level of the security threat facing the United States has overtaken terrorism, cyber attacks and cyber espionage.
This is in stark assessment, "global threat" in the annual conference, covering different focus on north Korea's belligerence and Syria's civil war, strengthen the spy chief's comments on the senate intelligence committee.
They expressed concern that such rapid development of computer technology, security experts, it is difficult to keep up with.
"In some cases, the world is the application of digital technology faster than we understand the security hidden danger, and to reduce the potential risk of capacity," the U.S. director of national intelligence James clapper, told the committee.
In written testimony, bangzi to soften his analysis is a little bit down the possibility of a catastrophic attack the United States in the short term - whether through digital technology, or from foreign or domestic militants, the traditional of violence.
But this year's annual threat conference stressed the ten years later, after nearly two years of the start of the war in Iraq, al qaeda leader osama bin laden's killing, the government and the digital computer network attacks have replaced early safety concerns.
On Monday, White House national security adviser Tom donilon, the reason is about the alleged Chinese cyber espionage complaints of U.S. companies, said, this problem is a growing challenge, economic relations between the United States and China.
China said on Tuesday that it will meet the requirements of donilon, Beijing related to the network security.
The economic costs
Last month, a us private computer security company released a study, blamed a mysterious Chinese military units in a wide range of U.S. industries lag behind the cyber attacks.
China has always denied such reports, and said, this is the U.S. government, a victim of cyber espionage.
From cyber attacks, is estimated in the billions of dollars, the economic loss every year.
In a separate in the senate armed services committee hearing Tuesday, Keith Alexander, general, head of U.S. cyber command, says private companies of network attack, especially in the U.S. banking sector are deteriorating. He predicted that attack the strength and the number will grow significantly throughout the year.
Alexander said that the military is to strengthen its network fighter group, add forces from all over the country's military and civilian. , he says, will have three teams: a network of national mission, the deployment team strength to resist the threat of national, cyber warfare task force responsible for the operation control; And network protection will defend the military information system.
Our goal is to the end of 2015, adding new resources, and in a team, but a third of them plan in September.
Budget cuts
Bangzi intelligence committee hearing on Tuesday, a shocking, American intelligence capabilities will be damaged, if congress doesn't move, in order to relieve the financial stress caused by the comprehensive budget cuts are known as seal automatically.
Because of less capital, tens of thousands of employees could face a vacation to the FBI, 5000 intelligence contractors may be terminated, network security efforts may be affected, old intelligence collection system overhead - spy satellites - could face layoffs, he said.
At a minimum of intelligence agencies, wants congress to give their power redistribution between reduction plan ", will loss minimum, "he said.
The bangzi 34 pages of papers submitted to the senate panel, ran the U.S. intelligence agencies covered by all kinds of threats, continue to the Middle East not stability prediction is continue to rule the world's supply of rare earth in China.
In two of the most unstable during the global financial crisis, the United States intelligence agency's assessment is restrained.
Although Iran is to improve the professional knowledge of technology, including uranium enrichment and ballistic missiles, it can be used for nuclear weapons, intelligence community have no don't believe that Iran's leadership has decided to build nuclear weapons, and will not do not know whether or when it may do so.
This assessment is a controversial discovered in 2007, is known as a national intelligence estimate, its conclusion Tehran to stop its nuclear weapons programme ", in the fall of 2003, did not restart, as of mid - 2007, although it remains open choice to build nuclear weapons.
Syria
In Syria, the United States intelligence community assessment, President bashar assad's government has the ability to defend its erosion is accelerating.
Assad's forces had to stop the rebels seize aleppo, Damascus and homs and other cities, but the agency said the insurgents have been growing, in rural areas. This may eventually lead to build a "permanent base" rebels in Turkey's Hadley bligh provinces along the border.
Related to network attack, at the top of the project's annual threat assessment is a provided before the assessment. In 2011 and 2011, the agency's annual assessment to congress listed in the first threat is terrorism.
 



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