The Future: six drivers of global change

Chapter 42

174 corporations, government agencies, and organizations

Gross, "Enter the Cyber-Dragon."

175 "We don"t do that"

Rosenbaum, "Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack."

176 373,000 jobs each year-and $16 billion in lost earnings-from the theft of intellectual property

Richard Adler, Report of the 26th Annual Aspen Inst.i.tute Conference on Communications Policy, Updating Rules of the Digital Road: Privacy, Security, Intellectual Property, 2012, p. 14.

177 worth $1 billion-in a single night

Richard A. Clarke, "How China Steals Our Secrets," New York Times, April 3, 2012.

178 examined one yet that has not been infected

Nicole Perlroth, "How Much Have Foreign Hackers Stolen?," New York Times, Bits blog, February 14, 2012, "nearly four times the amount of data"

Ibid.

180 "cyberthreat will be the number one threat to the country"

J. Nicholas Hoover, "Cyber Attacks Becoming Top Terror Threat, FBI Says," Information Week, February 1, 2012.

181 thirteen U.S. defense contractors, and a large number of other corporations

Michael Joseph Gross, "Exclusive: Operation Shady Rat-Unprecedented Cyber-Espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza," Vanity Fair, August 2, 2011.

182 six weeks" worth of emails between the Chamber

Nicole Perlroth, "Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery," New York Times, February 10, 2012.

183 still sending information over the Internet to China

Ibid.

184 individual packages containing the products they produce

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, "Machine-to-Machine Communications: Connecting Billions of Devices," OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 192, 2012, dairy farmers in Switzerland are even connecting

John Tagliabue, "Swiss Cows Send Texts to Announce They"re in Heat," New York Times, October 2, 2012.

186 "control systems that run these facilities, a nearly fivefold increase from 2010"

John O. Brennan, "Time to Protect Against Dangers of Cyberattack," Washington Post, April 15, 2012.

187 repeated cyberattacks from an unknown source

Thomas Erdbrink, "Iranian Officials Disconnect Some Oil Terminals from Internet," New York Times, April 24, 2012.

188 Aramco, was the victim of cyberattacks

Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger, "U.S. Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks," New York Times, October 14, 2012.

189 The attack on Aramco

Nicole Perlroth, "In Cyberattack on Saudi Firm, U.S. Sees Iran Firing Back," New York Times, October 23, 2012.

190 Iranian gas centrifuges that were enriching uranium