Top U.S. Intelligence officials released a new Worldwide Threat Assessment Report during a Senate hearing last week. Cybersecurity is still perceived as a need for Homeland security, it is the greatest threat for a second year, the effects of cyber campaigns conducted by foreign state-sponsored hackers are significant and represent a serious threat. Counterintelligence, foreign spying and the leaking, as the No. 2 danger facing the country, is the top threat from counterintelligence, the report also refers to the risks related to the diffusion of documents leaked from the US Government. The losses caused by intellectual property theft amounted to $2 trillion.”]
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