Steven Chabinsky, deputy assistant director of the cyber division of the FBI, has warned that cyber attacks could "challenge our country's very existence."

"[Chabinsky] delivered a strong and urgent warning about the threat of cyberattacks during a presentation Tuesday at the FOSE government IT trade show... Chabinsky also offered recommendations for countering the threat, including rules that would restrict the ability of some systems to interoperate with more vulnerable ones," writes Computerworld's Patrick Thibodeau.

"Chabinsky said that terrorism is the FBI's top cyber priority, followed by its investigation of foreign countries 'that seek every day to steal our state secrets and private sector intellectual property, sometimes for the purpose of undermining the stability of our government by weakening our economic or military supremacy,'" Thibodeau writes.

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