The federal Attorney General's Department has weathered more than one million hacking attempts over the last four years, its chief information officer said.
Fears of cyberterror could actually hurt IT security, a threats expert asserts.
Viruses and spam have become a more significant security threat than terrorist attacks, according to a network security survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit for AT&T, with 92 percent of responding senior executives rating viruses and worms as the most major hazard to their business today.
A group of hackers couldn't single-handedly bring down the United States' national data infrastructure, but a terrorist team would be able to do significant localised damage to US systems, according to a recent war games simulation.
While warnings pervade government and the media, doomsday scenarios of cyberterrorism that result in massive deaths or injury remain largely the stuff of Hollywood scripts or conspiracy theory.
Security expert Bruce Schneier says the danger from cyberterrorism is "overblown."
Counter-terrorism adviser to four US presidents Richard Clarke discusses whether cyberterrorism is a misnomer or a real threat.
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