US intelligence director claims remote possibility of 'major cyber attack' within two years

In a yearly testimony to the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper put cybersecurity in the spotlight, echoing US officials who have increasingly warned in recent years about the potential of catastrophic cyber attacks directed at the United States. This time, the cybersecurity alarm came with a vague timeframe; Clapper said today that there is "a remote chance of a major cyber attack against US critical infrastructure systems during the next...