US homeland security chief says cyber risk “equals 9/11 impact”

On the 8th of April 2008, the BBC reported that the US homeland security chief has made a heartfelt plea to Silicon Valley workers to stand up and be counted in the fight to secure the cyber highway.

Michael Chertoff invoked the attacks of 9/11 as he sought to galvanise IT professionals and security experts.

He told the world’s biggest IT security conference that serious threats to cyberspace are on “a par this country tragically experienced on 9/11″.

Such attacks can hit financial bodies and a government’s powers, he said.

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