When President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping met, they discussed cybersecurity and the fact that North Korea's nuclear program "must be dismantled." White House national security adviser Tom Donilon said Obama talked to Xi about Chinese hackers targeting US secrets, weapon designs, and intellectual property before warning it “was going to be a very difficult problem in the economic relationship and was going to be an inhibitor to the relationship really reaching its full potential." The Pentagon’s budget through 2018 “shows ‘increased investment will be made in protecting critical infrastructures,’ cyber-attack capabilities ‘for use against our adversaries and enhancing overall security of DoD networks and systems’." This spending "may benefit defense contractors." In March, the Intelligence Community said that the top national security threat to the US was no longer terrorism, but was instead in the cyber arena, cyber espionage and cyberattacks. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a $23 billion price tag attached to protecting national infrastructure, computer networks, and developing cyber offensive capabilities, according to the Pentagon’s five year cybersecurity budget obtained by Bloomberg News.
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