Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency and Retired Air Force General Michael Hayden, speaking at a cybersecurity panel organized and webcast by The Washington Post, warned that, within five years, a digital mass shooter will emerge with cyber weapon capabilities currently only available to organized crime rings and nation states.
Speaking of the hackers and their evolving capabilities, The Washington Times reports that General Hayden said:
They’re just mad, they’re mad at the world. They have demands that you or I cannot understand.
Some other potential attacks include the online sabotage of industrial control systems, harm to financial systems and communication networks on such a large scale that mass casualties and dislocation could result, and contamination of a city’s water supply, according to The Times.
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