'Astonishing' Cyber Espionage Threat from Foreign Governments: British Spy Chief
Source: ABC News
In a rare public speech, the head of Britain's domestic spy service said Monday that the West now faces an "astonishing" cyber espionage threat on an "industrial scale" from specific nation states.
"The extent of what is going on is astonishing," said Jonathan Evans, director general of MI5, "with industrial-scale processes involving many thousands of people lying behind both state-sponsored cyber espionage and organized cyber crime."
Though Evans did not name any countries, ABC News has separately learned from sources that the U.K., the U.S. and several European allies have a robust discussion underway on how to counter cyber espionage by perhaps the most significant state operator -- China.
Evans' speech on potential security threats to the West, delivered to English financial executives, came just one month before the 2012 Summer Olympics begin in London.
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EVERYTHING in this country is run by/with computers. Our country, it's defenses, all business, nuclear reactors are run by computers. We can't function without them! I can't imagine what would happen in case of a cyber attack. 