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Jen Easterly, the Director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, said she hopes people are taking the potential for China to use its capabilities against US critical infrastructure seriously.Summary
KEY POINTS:
- Ms Easterly was speaking at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas, recently.
- Such attacks would reflect a significant pivot from espionage and theft of data, to destructive attacks on infrastructure.
- Easterly’s comments mirrored several other warnings this year about China’s potential for destructive cyberattacks.
