By Sean Lawson and Brandon Valeriano
December 20, 2020 "
Information
Clearing House" - For
almost three decades, we have awaited a
mythical “cyber Pearl Harbor,” the harbinger
of digital doom that the U.S. cybersecurity
community assumes to be inevitable.
Strangely enough, some believe this cyber
Pearl Harbor already happened twice within
the last two months.
Though warnings of cyber Pearl Harbor
emerged as early as 1991, former defense
secretary Leon Panetta is perhaps best known
for promoting the idea,
warning in 2012 of an impending
“cyber-Pearl Harbor that would cause
physical destruction and the loss of life,
an attack that would paralyze and shock the